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Swimsuit Design Uses Supercomputing
Roland Piquepaille writes "These days, most competitive swimmers wear some type of body suit to reduce high skin-friction drag from water. And makers of swimwear are already busy working on new models for the Olympics 2008. According to Textile & Apparel, Speedo is even using a supercomputer to refine its designs. Its engineers run Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program on an SGI Altix system."
Two words I never wanted to see in the same paragraph.
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It's nice to see SGI working on winning gold medals in Swimming. They just need to find out how to get rid of the meat bag causing all that drag on their wonderfully designed swimsuits.
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Does this mean Computer magazines are going to start having yearly swimsuit editions? This could be a good and a bad thing.
"Meanwhile, the CFD analysis has already indicated that there is a more separated flow, where the water actually leaves the surface of the swimmer, for females than males, so the designs for male and female suits should be different."
Translation: Boobs and hips create additional drag. Make the suits tighter in the chest and hips for women.
I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.
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I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
And, yet, wasting computer resources on hosting and posting on Slashdot is acceptable?
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
What they need to do is use this computing power to find a way to make competitive swimsuits actually look good on women, instead of hiding all of the good stuff.
That reminds me of an old limerick. Sing along if you know it...
Taco,
Burrito,
What's that in your Speedo?
But in this case, it should be...
Jobs,
or Gates,
Who designed your Speedo?
Maybe it doesn't rhyme, but now all of you are thinking of Bill Gates in a thong. Ha.
Obviously in womens olypic competition they should ban swimsuits all together. Not only would that level the playing field... viewership would SKY ROCKET!!! 10x at least!
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There's a joke in here somewhere....mumble mumble Cindy Crawford mumble mumble Beowolf cluster mumble mumble Sports Illustrated mumble mumble.
I'm going to karma hell. I don't mind.
This is not a sig. this is a duck. quack.
Okay, I can see needing a supercomputer for designing Pam Anderson's bra, but not for swimsuits...
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Am I the only one that read that as `Swimsuit Competition uses Supercomputer`?
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin
Is there actually a "Silicone Technology" company?
Or did someone screw up their reporting?
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Is it only me, that "SuperComputer Calculated Swimsuits " turns me on ?
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Badmitten? Badmitten?!? WTF is that? Some kind of naughty winter hand apparel? Oh, wait... you're a retard! You meant badminton.
The recent SciAm special issue, Becoming Human has an article on the Bonobos -- "Bonobo Sex and Society" that covers it in more detail.
I'm going to regret posting this and admitting I know this, aren't I?
This sig seemed like a good idea at the time....
Perhaps the supercomputer should also be used for, uh, "member positioning"? Then SGI could also sell "go slower" drugs for those blokes who don't want it all to be over too quickly, no?
GazetteNET has managed to get their hands on a leaked picture of the new recommended swimming helmet designed by the supercomputing software. Here's the photo. Looks pretty slick to me. :)
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http://www.gazettenet.com/business/02242003/14.jp