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The scutoid shape was named after this top-down view of a beetle’s scutellum.Image: Pedro Gómez-Gálvez et al. (Nature Communications)AdvertisementThey decided to name the scutoid after the scutellum of a beetle (a part of its thorax), because the two look similar from a top-down view.
The 'Scutoid' Is Geometry's Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body The A.V. Club 2018
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The scutoid itself looks like a bent prism with five slightly slanted sides and one corner cut off.
Geometry Has a New Shape. Meet the 'Scutoid.' Yasemin Saplakoglu 2018
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Scientists have just defined a new shape called the scutoid (SCOO-toid) while studying epithelial cells, the building blocks of embryos that eventually end up forming our skin and lining our organs and blood vessels.
The 'Scutoid' Is Geometry's Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body The A.V. Club 2018
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A scutoid is a geometric solid between two parallel surfaces. The boundary of each of the surfaces (and of all the other parallel surfaces between them) is a polygon, and the vertices of the two end polygons are joined by either by a curve or a Y-shaped connection. Scutoids present at least one vertex between these two planes. The faces of the scutoids are not necessarily convex, so several scutoids can pack together to fill all the space between the two parallel surfaces.The object was first described in Nature Communications in July 2018, and the name scutoid was coined because of its resemblance to the shape of the scutellum in some insects, such as beetles in the Cetoniidae subfamily.
August 1, 2018