The Michell Truss is a well-known minimum-weight planar truss
designed to support a single load with anchors placed on a circle in
the same plane Although impractical because of the varying lengths
and curved beams needed for an optimal solution, the Michell truss
has been a topic of study and a standard problem for structural
optimization work for nearly a century. We have reproduced the
Michell truss with our system, starting from a grid-like initial guess
and arriving at a solution very close to the analytical optimum (Figure 11