Drawing design inspiration from nature isn’t that uncommon, but automatically generating design from nature is.
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This Cicado chair from Tao is made from that exact process.
Mitya Belkin studied the patterns generated from the wings of a Cicada, and trained AI to recreate a similar pattern for the back of this chair.
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Not only is it designed for comfort in mind, they look amazing as well.
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