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Well the point is that the ease of making tangent continuity is why it has that utilitarian aesthetic. The aspirational design is continuous curvature because it feels more natural and is harder to make. Classic veblen. 2w ago received

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You normally wouldn't catch me defending the rectangle ideology, but i must protest your characterization of rectangles as “unnatural”. They are natural to rational thought. We did not invent the rectangular grid just out of pure postmodern arbitrarine... 2w ago received

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Zaha has some cool stuff but IMO would be more interesting with more classical symmetry. Postmodern asymmetry was cool at first to break the previous rigid conventional refinement, but it's pretty stale at this point. Same idea with the arbitrariness of sh... 2w ago received

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The history of the sr71 is interesting and you can see from it exactly how much optimization went into that form.... 2w ago received

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