"Geometry" Blogs & Blog Posts

Willem Pennings designed a cube that balances on one corner, a refinement of Cubli (previously.) The original idea for this device comes from researchers at ETH Zürich, who demonstrate their "Cubli" in this video. Its design has been improved in so...

ncube is a single-serving site with a hypercube in it, smoothly prolapsing in the three dimensions that your screen can display. There's a panel with sliders that let you set the number of dimensions the cube has and warp it into other shapes. —...

Taking a cheaper flight with a layover in your destination city wouldn't work if carriers used what mathematicians call the triangle inequality.

​Who said that you'd never use math in real life? The Rock Paper Scissors Collective art and community studio in downtown Oakland​, California​ is ​offering a unique internship for students from Oakland MetWest High School that...

Mount Taranaki is an unusually symmetrical volcano in New Zealand whose conical prominence is heightened by the circular national park that it is centered in, where forest ends and farmland begins. Tom Scott visited and shot this 3-minute mini-docume...

Today I learned that a) the poop of wombats is shaped like a cube, and b) scientists have figured out how they poop like that. These are both excellent things! Maybe you were already aware of the geometry of wombat excrement? — Read the r...

This video illustrates "spherical geometry", the peculiar phenomena observed when you simulate a world by raycasting within a spherical manifold instead of Euclidean space. Beyond a certain distance from the viewer, things start to appear larger the...