How far back are you looking.......

[Kevin Thorp]

From Wikipedia:

"Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a relatively new science that studies nature, its models, systems, processes and elements and then imitates or takes creative inspiration from them to solve human problems sustainably."

If you want to use hurricane Katrina as an example: There are hurricanes every year & there always will be. But what types of animals and plants survive storms & floods? Can we study them to design more storm resistant buildings & towns?

[Jreed129]

[quote=Kevin342;801227]From Wikipedia:

"Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a relatively new science that studies nature, its models, systems, processes and elements and then imitates or takes creative inspiration from them to solve human problems sustainably."[quote]

That is also what it says for the explanation on firstbase:

"Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The core idea is that nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with: energy, food production, climate control, non-toxic chemistry, transportation, packaging, and a whole lot more."


Something tells me autodesk copy and pasted....

Anyway my team has come up with an idea, that we all feel really good about.

[Church]

As far as I can guess (and since it's a guess, you can ignore me totally), you can do anything you want. Something well-known, like photosynthesis, in itself may not gain very many creativity points, but if you think of a great new way to portray it with your animation, then it's just as good as coming up with the most out-there idea ever. As long as there's some aspect of your animation that will make people say "oh wow, what I great idea!" then you're on the right track. So if photosynthesis interests your group, then go ahead.

[fireball3004]

The only thing I would say abour photosynthesis in particular, is that it may prove relatively common and therefore lose some of it's competitiveness.