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by TeMPOraL 2400 days ago
I think they do factor nicely, in the design space. Those highly optimized solutions don't appear out of the blue, but from the set of more or less explicit constraints encoded in optimizing software. We can move forward with treating a complex part as an atomic unit, something just fabricated to computer-generated design, and iterate on the set of properties we're interested in.

(Whether that's ultimately a good approach, I don't know. I haven't thought about this too deeply yet.)