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Not necessarily: the Gömböc-shape could be a envelope of similar shapes. Any object within that envelope is a Gömböc, and ones just outside it are "almost Gömbö
by v21 15y ago
Not necessarily: the Gömböc-shape could be a envelope of similar shapes. Any object within that envelope is a Gömböc, and ones just outside it are "almost Gömböcs"
- caf 15y agoIt could be, but it isn't, which is part of what's so interesting about it. (And that's leaving aside the more fundamental point that the very definition of a Gömböc isn't applicable in the physical world, where objects do not have precisely defined edges and cannot be completely homogenous).