Mesh relaxation algorithms make cowards of us all. I let a Kangaroo script smooth out a canopy’s cable-net so effortlessly that I completely ignored what fourteen kilonewtons of pretension would do to a lightweight perimeter channel in an unheated shop in Louviers. When we torqued the turnbuckles to spec, the edge beam deflected nine millimeters past my theoretical limit and popped two custom flashing clips straight across the slab. We spent the rest of the night slotted-drilling brackets by hand while the fabricator quietly drank chicory and pretended not to look at my Grasshopper canvas.