When a beekeeper forgot to put the frames back in the hive, the bees built this themselves. It takes into account airflow and temp regulation. 🐝
@corlin No! But diving in. Thank you 💙
@corlin Dated May 23rd and they're still doing theoretical work. Do you know if successful models have been fabricated?
@corlin The Al-Bahr towers in Abu Dhabi have a kinetic jaali facade, which is inspired by the texture of human skin (Credit: Alamy) 😳
@Jezibaba Smart bees. It's what they've been doing on their own forever.
@Jezibaba sacred geometry in action
@Jezibaba I recall a paper that studied this which concluded that the bees followed a simple set of rules to build their honeycombs. I don't remember the rule but it was something like always split the angle of the wall. This results in a regular hexagon pattern normally.
So, I hate to say this, but maybe don't give the bees more intelligence than they have. Rather than taking air flow into account maybe the fan was the limiting factor that the bees built around to make this pattern.
@Jezibaba
Did you see this?
#Environment
(Nature already knows how.)
Climate-friendly air conditioning inspired by termites
"termite mounds, which consist of thousands of interconnected channels, tunnels and air chambers, and how these capture wind energy in order to 'breathe,' or exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the surroundings.
Similar structures could be integrated in the walls of buildings to drive the flow of air, heat and moisture in a new way."
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-climate-friendly-air-conditioning-termites.html