How Does Digital Fabrication Anatomy // Importance of Ovality Work?

Digital fabrication is like building with super-smart blocks that can shape themselves to fit exactly what you need, and ovality is how round or squashed those shapes are.

Imagine you're making a robot hand using cookie cutters. If the cookie cutter is perfectly round, your robot finger will be nice and smooth. But if it’s more like an egg, longer on one side than the other, that finger might be a bit wobbly or not as strong. That's ovality in action!

Think of ovality like how squashed a marshmallow is when you press on it. If it’s very squashed, it doesn’t hold up as well. In digital fabrication, if something has high ovality, meaning it’s more like an egg than a circle, it might not fit as nicely or work as smoothly in its final form.

Just like how you want your sandwich to be even so the jelly spreads nicely, in digital fabrication, keeping ovality low means things will match up better and last longer. It's all about making sure shapes are just right, not too squashed, not too stretched out, but just perfectly shaped!