We asked mathematicians to choose their favorite shapes and surfaces and tell us why they find them so exciting and ...

"Flat-to-shape" refers to objects that can be transformed from a ... Student Merit Award presentations for the district level round. More information: Tayal, S. et al. Creating Furniture-Scale ...

For instance, one mathematician says, “My favorite shape is the loop, a circle with all geometric information stripped away, leaving only a free-form one-dimensional object.” Other geometric ...

Triangles, pentagons, hexagons, any shape. And a circle becomes a sphere with just one large, curved face, like a ball. Perfect for, uh, rolling. Strike! I mean…oh come on now. Her shape ...

Researchers have built a flower-shaped robot that can pick up objects more than 100 times its own weight. The robot has an origami "magic ball" skeleton, and its main advantage is that it's able ...

The project was part of Tayal's winning Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Student Merit Award presentations for the district level round. Learn more about the flat-to-shape objects ...