Albatrosses are indeed spectacular illustrations of evolutionary design.
"These are the first J Mays cars that are fully his," he said, but he called the Five Hundred "a relatively evolutionary design".
Bucking the trend for evolutionary designs before next year's rule changes, Force India launched with what technical director Andrew Green says is a complete redesign.
Evolutionary design, as it is known, enables a computer to run through tens of millions of variations on an invention until it hits on the best solution to a problem.As its name suggests, evolutionary design borrows its ideas from biology.
Evolutionary design, as it is known, allows a computer to run through tens of millions of variations on an invention until it hits on the best solution to a problem.As its name suggests, evolutionary design borrows its ideas from biology.
Most of its meat is in its eight arms, which are so elegant an evolutionary design that they've become a model for robotics engineers, who call them "hyperredundant manipulators".
But in a broader, wilder way, they are simply being what they are: creatures responding to their own needs, abilities and evolutionary designs.
According to John Koza of Stanford University, who is one of the pioneers of the field, evolutionary designs that would have taken many months to run on PCs are now feasible in days.The result is that the range of applications to which the principles of evolutionary design are being applied is growing fast.
Evolutionary design uses a computer program called an evolutionary algorithm, which takes the initial parameters of the design (things such as lengths, areas, volumes, currents and voltages) and treats each like one gene in an organism.
