The net of a 3D shape is what a shape looks like when opened into a 2D shape. The net can help to show the areas of each face that make up the surface area of a shape. The same units are needed for ...

Surface area is a measure of the entire area that the surface of a specific object occupies. While simple geometric formulae for calculating the surface area of ideal three-dimensional shapes are ...

Obesity is a significant worldwide epidemic that necessitates accessible tools for robust body composition analysis. We investigated whether widely available 3D body surface scanners can provide ...

Tactile display capable of reproducing 3d shapes and textures on flat surfaces for various applications. Immersive applications such as information delivery for the visually impaired, vehicle UI, ...

Most of the big ideas in science have the decency to confine themselves to one or two disciplines. Evolution is strictly in the biological realm. E=mc 2 wouldn't be caught dead outside physics. And ...

Flat-pack furniture is commonplace, and flat-pack pasta might be one day too. Wen Wang of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and her colleagues have developed edible 2D pasta that swells into ...

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