Pretty sure I made something like this when I was cutting up some potatoes…

It's nice to see they're still inventing new types of DnD dice.

Doesn't this imply a whole new family of shapes, where one end is a polygon with n sides and the other end is a polygon with n+1 sides?

Math teachers after seeing this shape: "now go and calculate the area and perimeter of it"

I would like to see somebody print like 100 of these before assembling them.

The new shape just dropped LLLEEETT'SS GOOOOO!!!

I bet any 3D artist doing retopology has seen this event lots of times before

Just pulled out my college biology book from 1996, yup they included those shapes along with a description noting the extra facet allows for more cell surface space

They didn't discover a new shape. They ignored the shape for years and then decided to write a paper about it in 2018.

What's really awesome about this is it's a reminder that although so often people think we've made all the major discoveries already and we're just ironing out the details right now, we actually haven't even begun to unlock all the mysteries of the universe. That's been true for centuries and will continue to be true for thousands of years. This opens up a whole new world of things to study. Things like this are a reminder of how much we're still learning. Anytime a new discovery like this is made, it fills me with the joy of a curious child once again!

So happy to see that Geometry is still dropping new shapes

I just wanna say we’ve know about this shape for years I remember reading about this shape 6 years ago

They kept showing 2 of them fit together, but I want to see how they fit into a larger arrangement of the same or similar (not in the strict geometrical sense) shapes to see how it works.

Mathematically... Expected. In Biology, this is incredible.

One of my favorite 3DPA videos in a minute. Well done!

Scutoids are the new shapes on the block. In a paper published on July 27, 2018 in Nature, scientists from the University of Seville in Spain and Lehigh University in the USA presented their discovery of this new geometrical shape assumed by epithelial cells. They are a family of shapes that look like a cross between a cylinder and a prism, perhaps one that an angry ninja sliced off at one of the corners. This means that one of its faces (upper or lower) will have an extra side. The more technical definition of scutoids is as follows: “Scutoids are characterized by having at least a vertex in a different plane to the two bases and present curved surfaces”, according to the 2018 Nature paper. This new shape looks similar to the scutellum in the thorax of beetles in the Cetoniidae subfamily, so the researchers named the new shape scutoid.

I don't understand why people advertise this as a "new shape ". I've known about it since middle school and that was 30 years ago

"This shape was recently discovered" - I wouldn't say discovered, more... proven to occur naturally. The idea of two different shapes forming a prism was always a concept that had been done in math before . However, the fact that one of these Irregular Prisms occurs naturally in biology is fairly interesting to think about.

its not a new shape, shapes like this have been made plenty of times and can be seen a lot in various pieces of architecture or sculpture, rather it is a discovery that something is shaped differently to how we expected

So, scientists have "recently" discovered something we used to do back in school in the 80's Good job.

Though people say they have seen this shape before, there is a difference between a personal discovery and a research discovery. This is a good example of mathematics and anatomy having overlap and creating a new area that is thoroughly defined in literature .

I've always wondered what do you call the shape of each piece of pomegranate, now it makes sense.

Love your video and website and hope all is well :)

Super interesting, thanks for the video!

The building block which scientists and mathematicians have been unaware of, has become the cornerstone of all living things.

Ahhh yes, a new shape. Part of the latest update.

Finally a new shape. I've been waiting for a new one

Came here for the prints, staying for the knowledge. Thank you for your videos, I'm currently devouring your channel :D

I swear to god if I have to find the area of this thing in math class-

Wow - most interesting thing I learned today! Nature is incredible! But it is so sad that we have already begun to permanently dismantle it's secrets before even understanding it completely.

i love when we found new things that seem simple, the world's got so many little secrets

Really interesting, thanks man ;)

I better finish school before they add this to school math problems.

In 3D when modelling with polygons this was always considered bad modeling practice lol.

So many brilliant new findings hiding in plain sight... Gives me hope

This can be very useful in building Interlocking Blocks for Sidewalk roads.

The fact that this figure/shape was discovered in the shapes of cells is awesome!

I wasn’t really expecting to gain knowledge when I looked up “what is the newest shape”

incredible!

Cool I'm made out of this new shape Can't wait to show it off to my friends

I literally was messing around with onshape and made this shape like a year ago

Its a nice video. I think you could improve it by showing us what's possible with this shape.

Great video. Even Microcenter is awesome.

Can't wait for the rectagon episode 😗

I do 3D art and I have got to "Discover this new shape" a couple times, either doing booleans or retopology. 😂👌

I appreciate the .STL you share, but I have a question about HOW that is made. I'm playing with Fusion 360 and at the bottom of the learning curve. Do you LOFT between the two shapes - which seems an easy way to do it, but I feel it isn't that simple/easy.

Looks like it would be cool for modular robotics. Magnets and pins that allow communication and sharing of resources. Wheels at the base so each cell can move to another cell that is lower in power. All sharing power to increase "health" of the entire tissue. The cells closest to the food source could be tasked with charging. Bases with compatible charging pins, etc. Could be an interesting way to model the behavior of slime molds.

Wonderful video ❤️❤️❤️

Looks like a nice structure to sandwich between sheets to make a lightweight composite panel. Might be more rigid than honeycomb.

im gonna stick a couple circles together and clip an edge off and call it a Fakiicoid

Those are so cool

That's a win for the name of it and how it got it.

Why the hell they discover these. New shape means new properties and more formulas and more study damn it lol

🤔Wouldn’t it be cool to see a building designed to look like this? (Take note any architects visiting here!…)

This was worth a sub.

I never thought I would be intrigued by a shape

Technically it's a FORM since shapes are 2D 🤓

i got the ender 3v2 and its the worst tech i have ever bought.this thing has all sorts of problems

Awsome anatomy

Damn, I got excited by that microcenter offer... but I already shop/have an account there so I have to save my money this time 😅 (I'll probably go there next weekend tho since there's one fairly near me, and I want a new hard drive. I'm not sponsored lol but I *highly* recommended microcenter!)

... there are no "new" shapes, what the fokk are you talking about? Untill humans start creating shapes that use more than our 3 spatial dimensions, shut up about new shapes.

0:35 What’s that portable microscope you used for the imaging of your cells?

Wow mathgrrl is really cool for providing that model for free

I was kinda hoping for some geometry trivia, on the geometric side this was kinda bare bones.

Escudero must’ve been like: “Honey guess what happened, I got a shape named after me” *with a high a excited voice*

Can't wait to learn everything about this shape in school despite me never seeing it ever in my whole life

How does an Scutoid behave in 4D? Idk ask NA. Wow you primed that really well.

Yo thanks for the 100$ off coupon!!!! I’m hype to build my printer

now just start adding this feature in circle and triangle , rectangle and triangle or hemisphere and octagon. so many new formule to learn in future.

The geometric shape was first described by Pedro Gómez-Gálvez and collaborators in a July 2018 publication. The discovery was the result of research by the Department of Cell Biology and the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville of the University of Seville (Kingdom of Spain) led by Luis M. Escudero.

I wonder how you‘d calculate the surface area and perimeter

exciting stuff

Very interesting.

"Discovered" is a strong word for this one!

What is that light 'pencil' you are using on your hand?

Fascinating

I thought, "surely this is click-bait". No, this is higher level geometry. Very excited about this.

Thats super cool and I learned a lot but Inhave to say: wtf, I want a microcenter near me!!!

very cool

Incredible

good for Dr.MathGrrl

It's nice that 2 blocks can join on 1 face. But do many of the same shapes join nicely together too?

Very good

I just crumbled my homework paper And the teacher appreciate me for founding a new shape

Oh wow, in romanian, we say "scut" for shield (from latin, of course) so that was actually my first guess since it's called SCUToid. Pretty funky.

I wonder what other scientific breakthroughs KZfaq recommendations will show me especially now that I clicked on this video.

Having a shape named after you is probably the biggest flex ever

❤ Generalized to Voronoi cells where the sites are arbitrary teapots, we get the teapotoid tiles

well thats a big coincidence my father just bought the printer and said it was on a sale or smt now i know :p amazing video

0:32 What is the device that you're holding against your palm? Brand/model/store?

In the video he mentions the shape is discovered recently but I actually saw videos about this shape 4 years ago.

Them fitting together is fucking cooooool

1:30 Quite the lore!

I wonder how this shape would work as a gear tooth profile? Helical gear teeth slide past one another due to an axial force created by the helical shape (i.e. one gear will try to "climb" the other gear). With this that would be prevented and they would be self aligning like a herringbone gear but the axial load would still be in only one direction.

Hi does it tile space?

Cool!

Arent a lot of crystals shaped like this? Topaz and quartz for instance?And cacti? I have mine growing more or less ribs than before, so you get a similar effect?

this IS WAW!!! ❤🎉

micheal would love this

3d modelers are discovering new shapes every day