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This is really clever, but I bet there's all sorts of wacky ways that a 3d version of this could be optimized.<p>It would be really interesting to throw this design into a learning algorithm with an attached fluid simulation to estimate effectiveness. I wonder if anyone's done this. What learning algorithm would be most effective? And I'd love to see what a learning algorithm would come up with. I suspect an optimized version of this would be really organic looking and have lots of weird spirals and things in non-obvious ways.