Not so big. I was editing while you posted.

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what this "E" emits? E-waves? i find weird all these antenna shapes out there... sometimes i'm wondering if they are really operational or just decoration_al

 

Designing antennas is a very creative process. There are some antennas that are designed using what is called a Genetic process (the antennas may be called Evolved or Evolutionary antennas) and the appearance of these antennas is often very sculptural and mysterious. This process uses a computer simulator. In the process, you start with some structure, simulate its performance, then allow one part of it to grow or shrink in a random direction. Then you check its performance again. If it got better than before, you keep that change, if it did not, you back up and try another change. This is a pretty dumb way to design an antenna, but with a computer doing all the dumb guesses and calculations it is fairly easy to do. It is really just automated trial and error (of course I am oversimplifying the details). It is surprising how interesting the results can be sometimes.

Evolved antenna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wow the NASA antenna looks like a bent paperclip amazing

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wow... i knew about fractal antennas because i like to play with Wifi's and i thought it was over engineered toy...