THE SCUTOID: did scientists discover a new way to move?
Read the Nature paper for yourself:
"Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05376-1
Thanks to Laura and Clara for helping me with the video!
You can download Laura's model for free or order a print from Shapeways:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3024272
https://www.shapeways.com/prod....uct/L4D27PP24/pair-o
Laura Taalman, James Madison University
https://www.jmu.edu/mathstat/p....eople/faculty-full-t
Clara Grima, University of Seville
http://personal.us.es/grima/
These are the shows I was doing in Sydney:
https://www.mansw.nsw.edu.au/s....tudent-activities/ma
But you can check out the Maths Inspirations shows in the UK:
http://mathsinspiration.com/
And we'll be in New York on 2 October 2018:
https://momath.org/upcoming-events/maths-on-stage/
Images of cells and stuccoed are all from "Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia".
Voronoi demonstration is from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Voronoi_diagram#/med
Thanks to my Patreon supports who do support these videos and make them possible. Here is a random subset:
Malcolm Rowe
Rhys Johnson
Brian Lynch
Jade Bilkey
John Lewis
Support my channel and I can make more videos:
https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths
CORRECTIONS
- Yes, I pronounce it SCOO-toid, SCOW-toid, SCOE-toid etc. Sorry. It's new! I actually think ES-COE-TOID is the most correct.
- Alex Sweeney noticed that when I describe a prism I say it has rectangle faced sides. But that is only true of right prisms, in general a prism has side faces which are parallelograms. When I later talk about prismatoids I realised I had to be more general and said the sides are faces with three or four edges. But I should have done that earlier.
- Let me know if you spot anything!
This video is not sponsored by Little Creatures Pale Ale or BBQ Shapes but I am totally open to suggestions.
Music by Howard Carter
Filming and editing by Matt Parker
Design by Simon Wright
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
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