Bio-Armor: Printing Protective Plates From Patterns In Nature | Science News | Scoop.it
From www.popsci.com - April 18, 2012 4:06 PM

Neri Oxman, the director of the Mediated Matter research group at the MIT Media Lab, designs skins and body armors inspired by human tissue. “Most patterns in nature—whether scales or spiderwebs—have some kind of logic that can be computationally modeled,” she says.