Using Video Game Techniques To Optimze Solar Sails

Using Video Game Techniques To Optimze Solar Sails
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/1QcmiD2)

Sometimes inspiration can strike from the most unexpected places. It can result in a cross-pollination between ideas commonly used in one field but applied to a completely different one. That might have been the case with a recent paper on lightsail design from researchers at the University of Nottingham that used techniques typically used in video games to develop a new and improved structure of a lightsail.

August 20, 2025 at 05:03PM
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