These shapes include the cube and the hexagonal prism familiar from honeycombs ... the process could be boiled down to an easily solved 2D problem from graph theory. Every polyhedron has a ...

A prism is a 3D shape which has a constant cross section ... When architects design buildings, they often sketch 2D drawings to show what the building will look like from each side.

The press release notes that they could be best described as "twisted prisms." While it's cool and vaguely funny to talk about this news of there being a new shape on the block, the scutoid ...

Our world is made up of elegant shapes — there's the square, the rectangle, the sphere, the prism and many more. But sometimes, these shapes don't quite fit nature's game board. Sometimes ...

When epithelial cells pack together in a layer of flat tissue, each will often take the shape of a column with five or six sides—a prism. As the tissue grows and bends, some cells deform ...

The scutoid, so-christened in the paper published last Friday, is a kind of fucked-up prism shape that allows epithelial cells to form complex, curved forms. The scutoid is defined as a prism with ...