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I've had similar thoughts about facet-izing Thee Template..
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Yes, your geodesic dome-like car designs are similar in concept.
Here is a visual explanation for what they were doing.
Original vehicle:
Car Picker - white lamborghini Countach
Series transformation:
http://alexlloyd19.tumblr.com/post/1...hould-not-make
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Above are some of the steps taken to ruin one of the automotive world’s most iconic designs. There’s a reason pixel count has become a big deal, and generally we want more of them. United Nude disagrees
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Another image:
Degenerative Design - The Atlantic
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The project began two years ago with a wine glass (below) and they moved on to test it on various other objects such as a chair, motorcycle, and Lamborghini Countach (also below). United Nude plans on releasing software that will let users "benefit from more automated and semi-automated design" with the help of INUS Technology, which makes 3D scanning software Rapidform.
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There is also a woman's shoe in the link above.
Getting back on topic, the transitions between planes where pressures may be different is where vortexes may form. One quote from "Downforce without wings" said you cannot "divide the air", if this were true, why then the wing chimes on the SR-71, F-16, F-18 and other jets?
Perhaps you can divide/slice the air at certain transitional planes if you treat the termination points in turn or due course.
Two of the three jet aircraft listed all avail themselves to wing tip rockets or wing tip fuel tanks. The SR-71 on the other hand has massive air intakes for the jet engines which is one heck of a termination in it's self, a mid-way not wing-tip solution for vortex prevention.