This was a fun project I did back in 2021. It's funny the first artificial brain I made was 3D printed rather than anything to do with my AI work. A friend was finishing their PhD in neuroscience and their partner wanted to commemorate the achievement. Doing a neuroscience PhD, my friend had MRI scanned a lot of brains (as you do), including their own. Her partner and I got a hold of that…
Did you know you can represent 3D shapes with a neural network?
Generative Design (GD) tools can produce high-performing components with complex, organic geometries – shapes an engineer struggle to draw using Computer Aided Design (CAD). Despite this, CAD use dwarfs GD tool use in industry. One cause is that current GD tools are limited to manufacturing methods, like 3D printing, that can produce intricate geometries. Sometimes, that limitation is…
We wanted to know how AI methods were being used for the task of Generative Design. Due to the quantity of papers on the topic (14,000 since 2016), we used Natural Language Processing to help narrow down our search and group the papers into topics. We found two popular approaches. The first was to directly predict a design based on a dataset of reference designs, often using a Generative…