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I notice you found the regular lacings. Did you explore more fancy designs such as Crow's feet?

I tried with an unbiased representation, and then it found all kinds of stuff, mostly bad patterns. The ones in the video are the non-dominated solutions found, and no crow foot there. It did find it, or something similar, on many of the runs. But it was dominated by other solutions. Of course, this may be an artifact of my simulation.

What about the POWerwheel lacing pattern? Remove some of those retarding spokes for extreme power gains! It may have dominated the other solutions so hard your computer tossed it out as an outlier and was too ashamed to report the error.

Riders of the POWerwheel lacing pattern go so fast it's usually impossible to discern the lacing pattern from the wreckage they leave behind. To compound the problem most POWerwheel accidents are covered up as "space" attacking us with "meteors".

http://sheldonbrown.com/power-wheel.html

I tried running a POWerwheel-laced wheel for a while, but the problem was that the wheel eventually shot off ahead of the rest of the bike. When i got a new one, i stuck to the conventional pattern.

That wheel is probably still going, out there, somewhere.

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