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From the Ted Talk by Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology

Unscramble the Blue Letters


skwmolirs are often boiled to dtaeh inside their coconos, their silk unraveled and used in the textile istrundy. We realized that deinsging these templates allowed us to give shape to raw silk without boiling a single cocoon.

(Applause)

They would htahelily metamorphisize, and we would be able to cratee these things.

So we scaled this process up to architectural scale. We had a robot spin the template out of silk, and we placed it on our site. We knew silkworms migrated toward darker and colder areas, so we used a sun path diagram to reveal the distribution of light and heat on our structure. We then created holes, or apertures, that would lock in the rays of light and heat, duisnbrtiitg those silkworms on the structure.

Open Cloze


_________ are often boiled to _____ inside their _______, their silk unraveled and used in the textile ________. We realized that _________ these templates allowed us to give shape to raw silk without boiling a single cocoon.

(Applause)

They would _________ metamorphisize, and we would be able to ______ these things.

So we scaled this process up to architectural scale. We had a robot spin the template out of silk, and we placed it on our site. We knew silkworms migrated toward darker and colder areas, so we used a sun path diagram to reveal the distribution of light and heat on our structure. We then created holes, or apertures, that would lock in the rays of light and heat, ____________ those silkworms on the structure.

Solution


  1. healthily
  2. silkworms
  3. industry
  4. create
  5. cocoons
  6. designing
  7. death
  8. distributing

Original Text


Silkworms are often boiled to death inside their cocoons, their silk unraveled and used in the textile industry. We realized that designing these templates allowed us to give shape to raw silk without boiling a single cocoon.

(Applause)

They would healthily metamorphisize, and we would be able to create these things.

So we scaled this process up to architectural scale. We had a robot spin the template out of silk, and we placed it on our site. We knew silkworms migrated toward darker and colder areas, so we used a sun path diagram to reveal the distribution of light and heat on our structure. We then created holes, or apertures, that would lock in the rays of light and heat, distributing those silkworms on the structure.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
biological functionality 2
genetically engineered 2
varying material 2
fruit tree 2
generate structures 2
material properties 2


Important Words


  1. allowed
  2. apertures
  3. applause
  4. architectural
  5. areas
  6. boiled
  7. boiling
  8. cocoon
  9. cocoons
  10. colder
  11. create
  12. created
  13. darker
  14. death
  15. designing
  16. diagram
  17. distributing
  18. distribution
  19. give
  20. healthily
  21. heat
  22. holes
  23. industry
  24. knew
  25. light
  26. lock
  27. metamorphisize
  28. migrated
  29. path
  30. process
  31. raw
  32. rays
  33. realized
  34. reveal
  35. robot
  36. scale
  37. scaled
  38. shape
  39. silk
  40. silkworms
  41. single
  42. site
  43. spin
  44. structure
  45. sun
  46. template
  47. templates
  48. textile
  49. unraveled