Monday, July 30, 2018

Scientists have discovered an entirely new shape and it is all over you!

It turns out that your skin cells employ a shape previously unknown to both biologists and mathematicians...

Science Alert: Scientists Have Discovered an Entirely New Shape, And It Was Hiding in Your Cells


Gizmodo: The 'Scutoid' Is Geometry's Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body
The original research article: 

 Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia
The 'scutoid' shape (d) was named in homage to the scutellum 
 – a posterior portion of the thorax in some insects, which resembles the same mini-triangle shape (e)...  
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Fearful Symmetry Triptych

While grappling with the works of William Blake and his foremost literary interpreter, Northrop Frye in his book Fearful Symmetry , I c...