Engineering essays from the F13LD project. Computational design, biomimicry, additive manufacturing, and the design problems that fifty years of human creativity have not yet solved.
F13LD is a computational design suite for engineered metamaterials — a toolkit for searching the space of structures that match a target mechanical behavior, built around a verified vault of TPMS, spinodoid, hyperuniform, and biomimetic lattice families.
Field Notes is the editorial side of the project. Some pieces are debate primers. Some are vault deep-dives. Some are previews of work toward RAPID+TCT and other venues. All are written for engineers, designers, and researchers who believe computational design should be accessible without an HPC cluster, a six-figure software license, or a decade of specialist training.
Nine browser-based tools, one shared output format, no install required. Here's what each part of the suite does, how the pieces fit together, and where to start.
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