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But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away. The bigger problem is when other options of a captcha fit in another cultural c

by croes 2y ago

But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away. The bigger problem is when other options of a captcha fit in another cultural context. Taxi colors are an example for that.

Suppafly 2y ago
>But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away. When I search, the whole first page of google is essentially "things that are shaped like cones", I have no idea what that would be in response to one of those image captchas that show traffic and buildings.
rovr138 2y ago
> A conoid is a ruled surface whose rulings are parallel to a plane (called the directrix plane) and intersect a fixed line (called the axis of the conoid) (Gellert et al. 1989, p. 202). Examples include the circular conoid, helicoid, hyperbolic paraboloid, parabolic conoid, Plücker conoid, right circular conoid, Wallis's conical edge, Whitney umbrella, and Zindler conoid. If the axis is perpendicular to the directrix plane, the conoid is called a right conoid (Gray et al. 2006, p. 436). https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Conoid.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Conoid.html
gus_massa 2y ago
I got mathematical surfaces like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conoid To get the correct image I had to search conoid street. Anyway, I guessed they were those red cone shaped things that people put on the street and I'm not sure how they are call even is Spanish (probably conos or balizas).
TeMPOraL 2y ago
> But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away. Not when it's your search engine that's asking you to identify conoids.
joegibbs 2y ago
Google "conoid" and you'll get a bunch of pictures of shapes that are curved in different ways. I assume the captcha was talking about things that have a similar shape to a cone, but I don't think you'd get much of a clue from Google.

by croes 2y ago

Suppafly 2y ago

>But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away. When I search, the whole first page of google is essentially "things that are shaped like cones", I have no idea what that would be in response to one of those image captchas that show traffic and buildings.

rovr138 2y ago

> A conoid is a ruled surface whose rulings are parallel to a plane (called the directrix plane) and intersect a fixed line (called the axis of the conoid) (Gellert et al. 1989, p. 202). Examples include the circular conoid, helicoid, hyperbolic paraboloid, parabolic conoid, Plücker conoid, right circular conoid, Wallis's conical edge, Whitney umbrella, and Zindler conoid. If the axis is perpendicular to the directrix plane, the conoid is called a right conoid (Gray et al. 2006, p. 436). https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Conoid.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Conoid.html

gus_massa 2y ago

I got mathematical surfaces like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conoid To get the correct image I had to search conoid street. Anyway, I guessed they were those red cone shaped things that people put on the street and I'm not sure how they are call even is Spanish (probably conos or balizas).

TeMPOraL 2y ago

> But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away. Not when it's your search engine that's asking you to identify conoids.

joegibbs 2y ago

Google "conoid" and you'll get a bunch of pictures of shapes that are curved in different ways. I assume the captcha was talking about things that have a similar shape to a cone, but I don't think you'd get much of a clue from Google.