Week 43

This week there was no common lecture. We had a meeting with the contact person on Friday the 23rd at 2 pm. In the meeting we decided to model the helices as two shorter cylinders that are connected with a spherical joint in the middle. We also decided that we should test how the PhysX forces work and to test the forces on the helices and the joints. This is done only on some helices with some probability, and our task is also to find out which probability produces structures that are soft but still rigid enough to stay together and upright reasonably. Some sketches of the ideas about the spherical joints connecting the two cylinders are shown in Fig. 1.

Figure 1. Sketches of the DNA helices from our meeting on Friday 23rd.

We decided to have a group meeting on Tuesday the 27th of October to combine our ideas and knowledge, as well as prepare for the 2-minute pitch coming up on next Friday and to set up programming partners for the next week.