设计师推新型鳞片概念汽车:铰链连接碳纤维部件
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汽车设计师冯达(音译：Da Feng)曾经以他的运动型轿车概念设计惊艳四座。而这一次，他准备在设计中采用“鳞片”来提升汽车的空气动力学性能。
这款名为“鳞片”(The Flake)的最新设计概念浑身被铰链连接的碳纤维部件覆盖。每一个这样的碳纤维部件都用碳纳米管和微型螺线管连接，可以使它们竖起或放平，就像一只生气的猫，可以竖起它的毛。这些“鳞片”可以充当空气刹车装置，或者帮助实现更加顺畅的拐弯性能。
鳞片汽车：汽车的变形金刚
“鳞片”概念车尽管外形诡异，但是符合气动原理
冯达说：“当你告诉行进时，汽车会收缩为最小体积，以便改善气动性能，而在刹车或转向时，这些鳞片则会开启，帮助实现更灵活的减速或拐弯。”
它的轮子设计也非常有特色，这个所谓的“轮子”实际上时12个“腿”一样的部件结合而成的一个环形结构。当车辆行驶时，这些“腿”可以根据不同车速和路面凹凸不平作出相应的伸缩反应。他将这种“轮子”称作“D-轮”他说：“D-轮可以追踪路面情况并及时进行相应调整，这就相当于使汽车的轮子也成为了汽车悬吊系统整体的一部分。”
所谓的“D-轮”事实上是一个由12条“腿”构成的环状构造
尽管这一设计概念乍一看似乎非常古怪，但是冯达表示他已经和前F1威廉姆斯车队的工程师交流过想法，对方认为这款设计非常符合空气动力学，并且在工程上也只需做出微小的改动即可。
然而冯达并未透露是否会将这款设计投产。他说：“我知道很多人对这款设计的前景非常乐观，但是我并非是出于实用考虑设计了这款概念，而更多的是为了启发未来更多的设计作品理念。”
创作灵感和起点：
Freelance designer and futurist Da Feng has been getting a lot of blog buzz for his Project Flake, a concept car with a mutable skin. Most of the press has been focused on his final renders, but luckily for us ID heads he's got thorough documentation of the entire project, starting with the idea's genesis, up on his blog. Feng was inspired by everything from cigarette ashes to Pixar's Cars and, yes, Transformers.
We dig the fact that Feng is forthright about his failures—he initially tried carving the complicated concept up in clay, before realizing it was futile—and he has a self-deprecating sense of humility: "I know this car is ridiculous, and I know it won't work," he writes, "but it was never intended to be a practical solution, rather, an inspiration for others."
Project Flake, begun as Feng's final project for Coventry University's Automotive Design course, has been two years in the making.
(编辑 张颖)
汽车设计师冯达(音译：Da Feng)曾经以他的运动型轿车概念设计惊艳四座。而这一次，他准备在设计中采用“鳞片”来提升汽车的空气动力学性能。
这款名为“鳞片”(The Flake)的最新设计概念浑身被铰链连接的碳纤维部件覆盖。每一个这样的碳纤维部件都用碳纳米管和微型螺线管连接，可以使它们竖起或放平，就像一只生气的猫，可以竖起它的毛。这些“鳞片”可以充当空气刹车装置，或者帮助实现更加顺畅的拐弯性能。
鳞片汽车：汽车的变形金刚
“鳞片”概念车尽管外形诡异，但是符合气动原理
冯达说：“当你告诉行进时，汽车会收缩为最小体积，以便改善气动性能，而在刹车或转向时，这些鳞片则会开启，帮助实现更灵活的减速或拐弯。”
它的轮子设计也非常有特色，这个所谓的“轮子”实际上时12个“腿”一样的部件结合而成的一个环形结构。当车辆行驶时，这些“腿”可以根据不同车速和路面凹凸不平作出相应的伸缩反应。他将这种“轮子”称作“D-轮”他说：“D-轮可以追踪路面情况并及时进行相应调整，这就相当于使汽车的轮子也成为了汽车悬吊系统整体的一部分。”
所谓的“D-轮”事实上是一个由12条“腿”构成的环状构造
尽管这一设计概念乍一看似乎非常古怪，但是冯达表示他已经和前F1威廉姆斯车队的工程师交流过想法，对方认为这款设计非常符合空气动力学，并且在工程上也只需做出微小的改动即可。
然而冯达并未透露是否会将这款设计投产。他说：“我知道很多人对这款设计的前景非常乐观，但是我并非是出于实用考虑设计了这款概念，而更多的是为了启发未来更多的设计作品理念。”
创作灵感和起点：
Freelance designer and futurist Da Feng has been getting a lot of blog buzz for his Project Flake, a concept car with a mutable skin. Most of the press has been focused on his final renders, but luckily for us ID heads he's got thorough documentation of the entire project, starting with the idea's genesis, up on his blog. Feng was inspired by everything from cigarette ashes to Pixar's Cars and, yes, Transformers.
We dig the fact that Feng is forthright about his failures—he initially tried carving the complicated concept up in clay, before realizing it was futile—and he has a self-deprecating sense of humility: "I know this car is ridiculous, and I know it won't work," he writes, "but it was never intended to be a practical solution, rather, an inspiration for others."
Project Flake, begun as Feng's final project for Coventry University's Automotive Design course, has been two years in the making.
(编辑 张颖)
