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https://youtu.be/2_NZ1ql8B8Y https://youtu.be/2_NZ1ql8B8Y A nice video that explains it. Basically you have a pentagon and hexagon parallel with each other, an
by empath75 8y ago
https://youtu.be/2_NZ1ql8B8Y https://youtu.be/2_NZ1ql8B8Y
A nice video that explains it.
Basically you have a pentagon and hexagon parallel with each other, and connect 4 of the corners straight down and the fifth, you split halfway down to join up with the last two corners of the hexagon.
It’s a prismatoid that they just gave a new name too.
- mirimir 8y agoThanks. Your sentence is better than anything in the article :) And, as a former biologist, I gotta say, "huh?". I mean, epithelial cells aren't ideal geometric solids. They're messy and fluid. So faces can be pentagonal, hexagonal or whatever.
- mojomark 8y agoConcur, this comment explained the shape quite simply. From what I see, this is a simply a special case octohedron. Nevertheless, I've been working on an optimal 3D solid packing problem for a hydrodynamic application, and I'm totally going to try this cell shape out in my model to see if I can find any improvements.