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Swimsuit Design Uses Supercomputing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-with-the-flow dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Roland Piquepaille & Speedo by StikyPad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't like watching surgery either.. I guess that means I really like it.

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  2. What about the red dress? by bblboy54 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mouse: So what did you think of her?
    Neo: Of who?
    Mouse: The woman in the red dress? I designed her. She, um, doesn't talk very much, but if you'd like to meet her, I can arrange for a much more personal, intimate evening.
    Switch: A digital pimp at work!>br? Mouse: Pay no attention to these hypocrites, Neo! To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

  3. Re:Roland Piquepaille & Speedo by fm6 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When somebody mentions surgery, do you make self-conscious jokes about how ugly people look when they're cut open?

  4. Re:Roland Piquepaille & Speedo by StikyPad · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If by self-conscious jokes you mean something like: "Testicles and surgery! Those are two words I never want to see in the same sentence," then yes.

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