Visual inspiration

Visual inspiration in the inventive conceptual designing is a process of direct mapping concepts from nature into engineering design concepts. 

In biology, the concept of mimicry exists. This is an evolutionary strategy, and plants or animals using this strategy evolve to look or behave like 

For centuries, humans used concepts found in nature for two purposes. First, these concepts would become incorporated in the myths created by humans, and second, they would be used for design purposes. In the first case, for example, medieval knights in Europe, or warriors of all kinds in Asia or Africa, always wanted to frighten their opponents on the battlefield. Therefore, they would cover their bodies with skins of dangerous animals, like lions or leopards, or even use animal masks to instill fear. They did not want to mimic animals but only the desirable concepts associated with these animals concepts of danger, death, or cruelty. 

The use of visual inspiration is relatively simple, but unfortunately this kind of inspiration is only skin deep because concepts are mechanistically 

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Roald Hoffmann, a former coworker of R.B. Woodward and Nobel Prize as well for his contribution to the frontier orbital theory (the famous Woodward-Hoffmann rules concerning the conservation of molecular orbital symmetry), has also emphasised the artistic aspects of organic synthesis "The making of molecules puts chemistry very close to the arts. We create the objects that we or others then study or appreciate. That s exactly what writers, visual artists and composers do" [15a]. Nevertheless, Hoffmann also recognises the logic content of synthesis that "has inspired people to write computer programs to emulate the mind of a synthetic chemist, to suggest new syntheses". 

In accordance with these notions, the current chapter has focused on a visual approach with a primarily pictorial representation of Beltrami fields and their relatives. It is hoped that this emphasis on intuitive pictures will perhaps inspire researchers of fundamental field physics to consider the benefits of a return to more concrete theoretical models in the future. Certainly, in the macroscopic context, the anomalies found associated with classical vortex study applied to empirical exhibits in plasma focus entities, tornadoes and astrophysical phenomena, need reexamination. 

UC Santa Cruz professor and Bridge Conference guest Ralph Abraham, Ph.D., perhaps the foremost pioneer of chaos mathematics, has publicly acknowledged LSD as a major tool and source of inspiration in his work. Perhaps it is no coincidence, then, that many experienced psychedelic voyagers attest to the fact that fractal graphics bear an uncanny resemblance to the visual imagery observed under high doses of LSD and other psychedelics. 

Jane and Maureen s movie poster activity provides a DCM heuristic for uncovering educators values about writing. DCM-inspired activities are inherently visual, and they provide alternatives to traditional interviews, surveys, and questionnaires. DCM-driven methods, such as this movie poster activity, make visible aspects of rhetorical values that traditional research methods may not be able to reveal. In fact, Broad (personal communication, October 6, 2006) explained that UNR s innovative application of DCM reveals educators "latent rhetorical values" using a "psychoanalytical approach." Stalions... 

Neither the psychometricians nor the chemometricians have used the full potential of plotting and visualizing their data as evidenced in the literature. Tables 8.1 and 8.2 can be a source of inspiration for future uses of graphics. 

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