The Research On Biologic Form Simplification In The Bionic Design Of Product

In the field of industrial design, bionics is always an important method for product design. Nevertheless the simplification of biologic form is the key process in the bionic design of product. Because of its complexity, it has been a bottleneck to constrain the bionic form of product design, so studying the simplification of biologic form seems very necessary.This paper firstly explains the meaning, principle, sort and process of the bionic design of product. According to the theories of visual perception and cognition, this paper explains the meaning of simplification, and sorts it into psychological simplification and physical simplification and explains the similarities and differences. It concludes that the simplification of biologic form is physical simplifying process which is following the psychological simplification. Moreover, with the characteristics of biologic form, the author explore the essential rules of biologic form simplification.Secondly, the author applies the simplification theory into the bionic design of product, and analyses the process of biologic form simplification in bionic design of product. In this course, according to the divide, the author sorts the simplification of biologic form into two stages—the distilling stage and the simplifying stage, explaining the differences and functions of the two stages. At the end, it sorts the simplification of biologic form structural characteristics into the simplification of structure pattern and the reduce of components with some design cases to demonstrate, and points out that the bionic form includes topology characteristics, structure pattern and measurement etc. and analyzes the function difference of structure pattern during the alter of the bionic form structure pattern with design cases.Finally, the author concludes some methods and principles for simplification, and briefly analyses the abstract extent and cognition. The author analyzes the ambiguity and multi-meaning of pattern cognition and its influence on bionic design of product. Based on the theory, the author analyses some successful cases and personal design cases to prove its correctness.