Someone please explain the resistance. I see this as just another tool in the box.
Tools are made to be used correctly. The results you posted might look like record setting machines to the uninitiated. To someone with a historical perspective and a bit of experience - it's obvious you need to provide better input. Heard of GIGO?
AI is a computer program, just like CFD, Data Logging and the ECM controlling your engine.
No one here seems to have a problem with using any of those.
Spoken like a true noob.
As for getting a rulebook, who said any of these designs are intended to run in the scta?
Did Richard Noble need a rulebook when designing the Thrust SSC?
You should ask him and the engineers who worked on it. Bet they can provide you with some real world reference material to help you with your next offerings...
Boy... you sure told me !
But you didn't answer the question.
Consider this, every vehicle that has ever raced all started the same way, as a concept.
An idea that was put to paper and then built.
The A.I. pics that were posted are just that, concept vehicles.
Just because these ideas were constructed on a computer screen instead of a drafting table doesn't make them any less valid.
Now,
as a noob, I would like to ask you a question.
According to the SCTA rulebook, What class is Rosco's Aussie rocket going to run in?
Seriously,
I thought that this is a great topic for discussion here on this forum full of very smart guys.
Especially with innovation and ingenuity being the keys to LSR and going faster.
I honestly expected that advancements in technology would not only be accepted here but also celebrated.
Or at the very least, not so readily dismissed.
Not wanting to argue,
I will now take my views on this subject back into the shadows with me and continue to lurk
as engaging in meaningful and insightful dialog on this topic seems unlikely.
Have a nice day.