shapes
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The ‘Scutoid’ Is Geometry’s Newest Shape, And It Could Be All Over Your Body
Scientists have just defined a new shape called the scutoid (SCOO-toid) while studying epithelial cells, the building blocks of embryos that eventually end up forming our skin and lining our organs and blood vessels. They think the scutoid shape is extremely efficient at keeping cells tightly-packed and organised in the literal twists and turns of…
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Illusion Somehow Transforms Rectangles Into Circles In The Mirror
Video: What sorcery is this? Kokichi Sugihara’s ‘Rectangles and Circles’ illusion is a mind-bending visual trip that turns squares into circles and circles into squares right in front of your face. Different shapes are placed at a mirror and what you see in front of you is totally different from what you see in the…