The concept of aerodynamic
forms, a constantly changing subject, is based on a quantitative base. The problem is how
to quantify different forms up to the end of all possible variations (since, not being
perfect, they are subject to change) or else to be able to make the right forms from the
start, but that can be excluded, no-one is born an expert. The enigma can be solved
through a parallel which has the same functionality and it is easy to understand. If
we take, for example, the colour of light, white light contains the whole quantity, that
is to say, all of the variations of colours added together, and black is the lack of all
them. The derivatives, to be found midway between black and white, have less quantity than
white and vice versa of black. I must point out that, in the case of the colours, white
and black are the originals, while the other colours are the derivatives. In the
case of aerodynamics, which I am presenting, one speaks of derivatives (these two models drawn here: the concave and the convex) and sub
derivatives (all of the other forms).
Aerodynamic forms function in
a similar way to colours, with the concept of the two opposites: the contents and the
container. The contents contain the whole sum of the variations, like white; and the
container is the lack of the sum of the variations like black. Functioning is based on the
concept of Form and Function. If the Form is opposite the function is also opposite. For
example, to slow down you need a parachute, which is concave; to accelerate convex is
needed, like a bullet. One compresses the external air into the interior ( it contains the
air), the other, to penetrate it, explodes it from its centre towards the exterior (the
air contains it).
The concept of aerodynamic
forms for automobiles is similar. On bends a containing shape is needed to compress the
car towards the ground, to have better hold on the road; while for going straight ahead
the content is needed for acceleration or explosion.
The problem of resistance to
motion, which the air pressure makes when the vehicle is in movement, can be resolved with
the same solution for the two models drawn here and it is symmetry . In the front part,
air pressure causes resistance to going ahead, in the rear part the same air pressure
pushes it forward.
CREATING
DERIVATIVES
In the case of colours, the
derivatives, as mentioned before, have less mass than white and more mass than black. In
the case of aerodynamic forms, the process is similar, it is just that the quantitative
concept of mass is all in the form. A convex shape contains the whole mass and a
concave shape is the lack of it. The derivatives have less mass than the convex shape and
more mass than the concave shape and, since the concept is of the contents and
the container, in creating derivatives one begins to annul and one looses the idea of its
purity. That is to say, the concave shape gets destroyed by the convex and vice versa,
just as a glass begins to merge whit the liquid that is inside it. Therefore the two
opposites are the only pure forms or quality.
In the absolute fusion of the two
opposites the neutral is formed, which is the container used for
transporting goods, which is all formed with straight lines. It has no longer anything
left of concave nor convex (the liquid is completely fused with the glass). The concept of
contents and container has been annulled and destroyed, there is no more compression or
explosion. Explosion and compression have been fused together. A lucid example of
this can be understood through looking at example of the functioning of the crystal:
a convex lens enlarges, blows up the image, the concave lens reduces it and compress it
and neutral, which is made of all straight lines does neither one nor the other.
