Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files"Life builds more often to a criterion of strength than stiffness, and its consequent mechanical flexibility is multidimensional in ways we rarely consider, much less capitalize upon. Thus the relative resistance of flower stems and wing feathers to bending and twisting might provide hints for making cheaper and less obtrusive towers." - Steven Vogel on [[http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2006/symposium/Vogel.html"|Subtle Technologies]] * Steven Vogel: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/svogel * Story of a daffodil: http://www.biomechanics.bio.uci.edu/_html/nh_biomech/daffy/daffy.htm * Why Tulips Can't Dance: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_6_157/ai_59535215 * Reorientation of Daffodi: http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/87/1/29 Related: [[plant_movement]]Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International plant_biomechanics.1224323572.txt.gz Last modified: 2008-10-18 09:52by 81.188.78.24