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I'm fine with being stupid (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT. Our own Aeronmelon is going through some shit at the moment and could use some help. Check it out here and consider an upvote or a comment to push it into activity. Sorry, not something I do often or will be spamming. But I care about my friend and if I can get a couple more eyes on his situation then I'm going to try to do what I can.

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[-] Dampyr@piefed.social 85 points 2 months ago

Why does it remind me of this?

meme kissing

[-] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 2 months ago

Jesus Christ lmao

[-] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 months ago

I found this to help me imagine the shape:

[-] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't that make the face on the right non-planar?

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

If you’re free to put the center vertex anywhere, then I’d think you could position it to avoid that…

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

That scutoid (possibly all of them, I don't know) is just a pentagonal prism with a corner cut off.

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[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 months ago

STOP MAKING NEW SHAPES.

WE HAVE ENOUGH SHAPES.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure.

My doctor always says that I'm out of shape, so I'm sure I should get a new one

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

We already have all the shapes we need. Square. Circle. Octagon. Tetrahedron. Tesseract. Penis.

That's enough shapes.

[-] noodly_appendage@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 2 months ago

Did you just skip Hexagons?! Hexagons are the Bestagons!

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Octagons and hexagons are the same thing. It's right there in the name. Gon. It's okay, many people think they're different shapes, it's a very very common misconception.

[-] noodly_appendage@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 2 months ago

Oh, I actually didn't know that. Thats a really interesting fact, thanks!

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Nonagon infinity opens the door.

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Cybertruckoid.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

SEE?

END THE MADNESS.

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[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 45 points 2 months ago

Finally, they made Polygon 2

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

When will we get Polygon Z?

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[-] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 months ago

scutoids be like

[-] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago

Jesus Christ lmao

[-] 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

This poor girl neck didn't make it

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 34 points 2 months ago

Ah just make it a 3d rectangle and slap a +/-10% on it

[-] AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

Ah, a fellow engineer!

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago

The area is very easy to calc, its only adding clear poligons, basic geometry. Somewhat harder to calculate the volumen of this thing.

[-] Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 2 months ago

Your spanish is leaking, mate.

[-] DonPiano@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

Fun: The leak looks the same as if it had sprung from german!

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Volume is also nothing but polygons, where accuracy depends on number of slices.

Or: dump it in a water tub and measure height of water line.

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[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Scutoid these nuts, lmao

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago

There's a project for this!

https://github.com/orvn/scutoid

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[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Looks like a bunch of triangles to me

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 8 points 2 months ago

Reticulating Splines

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[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Any teachers here wanna weigh in on the ability of current kids' ability to write complete sentences, let alone calculate the area of this shape?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

on the ability of current kids’ ability

[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago

-50 persuasion

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Given enough time and known lengths, most of my students should be able to calculate the surface area of this by the time they graduate. They'd just split everything into triangles and quadrangles, use the formula for each, then add everything together. It's not that useful of an exercise though, didactically speaking, because once you grasp that process, it's just repetitive and lengthy. There'd have to be a LOT of given values to make this solvable, too.

On a more subjective note, they can also form sentences. They just don't want to when colloquial speech brings the point across just as well and it's an informal setting. The same is true for most people of all ages in my experience.

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[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago

Incredible