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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is This From Your Thesis or Not?

This is a hexagonal tiling of a torus generated in Mathematica referencing code and approach from two citations. This was an approach to say, great, we've come up with this tessellation approach for a bucky ball. We wanted something that would maximize the volume. But if we think about ring worlds and other shapes, we wanted to look at how do you tile a torus? And this is one example with hexagons to be able to say, could we take this same tessellary approach of self-assembling tiles and create other geometries? That's awesome. I'm now hungry. By the way, for the viewers, we're

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