Spider Webs: Design and Engineering

Abstract

‘All things in nature,’ said Sullivan, have a shape, that is to say, a form, an outward semblance, that tells us what they are that distinguishes them from ourselves and from each other ….'. ‘Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oaks, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law.’