How scientists discovered a new shape.
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- What makes the Scutoid so significant? How was it discovered? Why does it matter? In this video I use a 3d printed model of a Scutoid designed by mathgrrl to explain the history, concepts, and significance of this unique geometric shape.
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It's nice to see they're still inventing new types of DnD dice.
underrated comment
How do you even roll this
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@@TmacPlushVideos satan is cool
@@boopsboops7692 yeet it was hard as you can. Just like a normal d20
Doesn't this imply a whole new family of shapes, where one end is a polygon with n sides and the other end is a polygon with n+1 sides?
or one end is a polynomial with n sides and other end is a polynomial with n-a sides
@Dino Sauro explain?
@Dino Sauro what
@Dino Sauro Says no and refuses to elaborate like a boss 😎, why present a valid argument when you can just say no, it's so much more convenient for you
@@chronofactor2037 we are not even on his plane of existence!
Pretty sure I made something like this when I was cutting up some potatoes…
Potatoid
Shook
haha
😂 same I’m sure I made this shape out of clay as a 3 year old
exactly, we all seen this shape before, c'mon lmao
I would like to see somebody print like 100 of these before assembling them.
I printed one. Made a rubber mold and cast a hundred in concrete as cobblestone for my garden. It’s interesting. I used a slightly different scutoid though.
pics or it didn't happen
@@jamiegoegebeur2239 uh…. I’m not in the habit of responding to a proof request for something this simply done, but I liked the outcome and don’t mind sharing. And so, how does one attach a pic? You wanna DM me?
@@avenuex3731 personally i just think that path would be neat to see haha
@@mitlanderson well, me too, which is why I did it. But a path would take a few thousand. A hundred was just enough to cover a square foot or two.
Math teachers after seeing this shape: "now go and calculate the area and perimeter of it"
*surface and volume
Pd: don’t show it to math teachers
rip
Don't give them ideas
@@KittAnimations tbf they probably already have
This will kill student brain
What's really awesome about this is it's a reminder that although so often people think we've made all the major discoveries already and we're just ironing out the details right now, we actually haven't even begun to unlock all the mysteries of the universe. That's been true for centuries and will continue to be true for thousands of years. This opens up a whole new world of things to study. Things like this are a reminder of how much we're still learning. Anytime a new discovery like this is made, it fills me with the joy of a curious child once again!
The most fun part is that with our current knowledge we've always tried to remove ourselves from the process whilst creating better results.
Mass production, graphing and ml models, computing in general etc. all aim to do thing we could do before by ourselves.
We are getting to the point where we will soon make a machine that will figure out the mysteries of the universe without us. Just 2 days ago deepmind's gato shows us that a generalised ai is far far closer than we think. Thus, i don't think the statement is true for thousands of years anymore, since the limiting factor, us, will soon be removed.
True science never stops discovering! This world is beautiful.
This isn't a new shape. Go and read the comment of dino sauro under the og comment of deketree64
@@mrlarolapra6288 Just tell us what they said.
@@lemonysnickette it's the top comment, go read for urself
I bet any 3D artist doing retopology has seen this event lots of times before
Those are my thoughts and I do t model much. No way this is a new shape
@@krisnrg That was the first thought that came to my mind. I do not do retopology or model that much either but I've faced weird moments sometimes and the pros. I'm sure they've seen things science doesn't know about lmao.
The point you’re all missing is that it’s a shape just recently discovered in nature as in naturally occurring not man madee. It may not be blatantly stated in the video but that’s because not everything’s gonna be spoon fed to you
@@Jl2damax Like, say, proper grammar and spelling, for example.
@@Kyrelel or shifting the subject away from the point
Just pulled out my college biology book from 1996, yup they included those shapes along with a description noting the extra facet allows for more cell surface space
I feel like we're not really creating anything original anymore. Even science is reaching into their own public domain source and remixing something.
@@Camelotsmoon what a claim
@@alvarol.martinez5230 ehh
@@Camelotsmoon nothing creative is truly original, everything is a remix in some shape or form. But in science new things do get discovered, some things rediscovered.
@@Camelotsmoon all of science is remixing public domain knowledge to find something useful, or not.
The new shape just dropped LLLEEETT'SS GOOOOO!!!
Shape 2
@@Vexcenot electric boogaloo
So happy to see that Geometry is still dropping new shapes
it's all fun and games until they make me learn about this at school
@@redditstuff7753 hahahahaha.
At Graduate School - College Geometry
The 1st day -
Teacher: All right class;
What's the formula for finding the volume of an Hex/Oct Scutoid?
The Class: 👁️👄👁️
I just wanna say we’ve know about this shape for years I remember reading about this shape 6 years ago
Same, I am also aware it was featured in one of the National Geographic shows.
Didn't realize there was anything unusual about it but I've been seeing this shape in crystals and clay for close to thirty years...
@@Snowaxe3D I still dont understant how this thing works. Like I can make shape by taking septagon and hexagon . Please explain
@SweeperB0t It was discovered more than 6 years ago. And recently in terms of scientific discoveries, is recently in normal people terms.
@SweeperB0t Recently is recent, recent is not a long time ago. Its not hard to understand.
They didn't discover a new shape. They ignored the shape for years and then decided to write a paper about it in 2018.
Let me guess... Funding not approved for this particular research
By that logic we have never discovered shit anyways
yeah i'm pretty sure i made this shape out of magnets in like 2nd grade tbh
@@SherryDC Maybe in your circular logic cult. We live in the time where saying something is first is a marketing tactic for bringing in investors.
Exactly
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Slightly different direction, trying new video styles out. Keeping it fresh! Looking forward to your next video!
@@3DPrinterAcademy the different direction is the bad direction
Scutoids are the new shapes on the block. In a paper published on July 27, 2018 in Nature, scientists from the University of Seville in Spain and Lehigh University in the USA presented their discovery of this new geometrical shape assumed by epithelial cells.
They are a family of shapes that look like a cross between a cylinder and a prism, perhaps one that an angry ninja sliced off at one of the corners. This means that one of its faces (upper or lower) will have an extra side. The more technical definition of scutoids is as follows: “Scutoids are characterized by having at least a vertex in a different plane to the two bases and present curved surfaces”, according to the 2018 Nature paper.
This new shape looks similar to the scutellum in the thorax of beetles in the Cetoniidae subfamily, so the researchers named the new shape scutoid.
cool!
Mathematically... Expected. In Biology, this is incredible.
its not a new shape, shapes like this have been made plenty of times and can be seen a lot in various pieces of architecture or sculpture, rather it is a discovery that something is shaped differently to how we expected
Much more accurate/less click-baiting way of describing it. Unfortunately even in the scientific RUclips community its about money and numbers over accuracy and education :/
I think the "discovery" is more like the puzzle like connecting property of this shape or this shape in nature.
"This shape was recently discovered" - I wouldn't say discovered, more... proven to occur naturally. The idea of two different shapes forming a prism was always a concept that had been done in math before . However, the fact that one of these Irregular Prisms occurs naturally in biology is fairly interesting to think about.
So, scientists have "recently" discovered something we used to do back in school in the 80's
Good job.
Though people say they have seen this shape before, there is a difference between a personal discovery and a research discovery. This is a good example of mathematics and anatomy having overlap and creating a new area that is thoroughly defined in literature .
One gets the money if put the author's rights, patented etc; the other one doesn't get any money.
I don't understand why people advertise this as a "new shape ". I've known about it since middle school and that was 30 years ago
The building block which scientists and mathematicians have been unaware of, has become the cornerstone of all living things.
I've always wondered what do you call the shape of each piece of pomegranate, now it makes sense.
I swear to god if I have to find the area of this thing in math class-
Area of Hexagonal tube - Area of Triangular pyramid?
Idk?
The area is extremely easy. The volume... May need a bit of imagination of dissecting planes.
i love when we found new things that seem simple, the world's got so many little secrets
I wasn’t really expecting to gain knowledge when I looked up “what is the newest shape”
Came here for the prints, staying for the knowledge. Thank you for your videos, I'm currently devouring your channel :D
Wow - most interesting thing I learned today! Nature is incredible! But it is so sad that we have already begun to permanently dismantle it's secrets before even understanding it completely.
Finally a new shape. I've been waiting for a new one
In 3D when modelling with polygons this was always considered bad modeling practice lol.
Can't wait to learn everything about this shape in school despite me never seeing it ever in my whole life
Its a nice video. I think you could improve it by showing us what's possible with this shape.
That'd be nice, I'm just sitting here like "oookay...and?"
Like why is this 'new shape' worthy of making a video of? I mean playing with playdoh as a kid i must have made hundreds of new shapes, so why's this thing so special?
@@jasonrustmann7535 because it’s a building block of cells, like how the cells is connected. Can the random shapes you make all connect together smoothly?
I just crumbled my homework paper
And the teacher appreciate me for founding a new shape
Looks like a nice structure to sandwich between sheets to make a lightweight composite panel. Might be more rigid than honeycomb.
Absolutely not. Sloped load bearing walls and a vertex in the middle of the vertical surface? Literally the worst combination for a support structure.
@@Fluvance Just random ppl trying to look smart, ignore them
@@SToXC_. Necroposting, but you've reminded me of one smаrt-аss that claimed this shape was a "three-dimensional polygon net of a truncated icosahedron"...
I thought, "surely this is click-bait". No, this is higher level geometry. Very excited about this.
Ahhh yes, a new shape. Part of the latest update.
Yep , Players complain skin cell warrant complicated and interesting enough and lack features. Because “cells” need more features
Shapes 3.0.2
I bet it's p2p...
The devs never listen. We want them to address the capital imbalance issue but all we got is a shape update =/
They create this new shape only for selling more skins
Escudero must’ve been like:
“Honey guess what happened, I got a shape named after me”
*with a high a excited voice*
The fact that this figure/shape was discovered in the shapes of cells is awesome!
920,531 views, 25k likes, 1k comments, 141k subscribers. Nice!!
I better finish school before they add this to school math problems.
What is the volume of a Scutoid with a height of 1 and the hexagonal and pentagonal base inscribe in a circle of radius 1
It just goes to show you that with minimal effort, you too can be paid to discover anything no matter how life changing of an impact it will bring.
I literally was messing around with onshape and made this shape like a year ago
Yooooo new shape just dropped
I appreciate the .STL you share, but I have a question about HOW that is made.
I'm playing with Fusion 360 and at the bottom of the learning curve.
Do you LOFT between the two shapes - which seems an easy way to do it, but I feel it isn't that simple/easy.
ruclips.net/video/NSvPyZtblWY/видео.html
Every long side should be a compound curve. You need to build these faces from matching curve edges, then close the face.
@@avenuex3731 Thanks very much. Alas I shall admit the answer you gave is above my understanding.
I have been thinking about it a lot since posting and can't seem to get things to work.
I suspect the triangle part is a bit tricky in that it is a line between the two "ends" (corners of the sides that don't match) and is ....
I can't find the words.
But I shall see if I can work out how to make compound curves.
@@BossMan-vb6pi no…. It’s not really that hard. Start by making a sketch on a plane with three curves. Then create a face using those. The next step is to make a polyhedron by doing this in four planes and you’ve got it. Experiment!
( or find a scutoid on thingyverse and have at it ;-)
@@avenuex3731 I am progressing slightly, but I think I am still wrong. Reason being I am working with FLAT surfaces.
(Shame I can't post a screen shot) I'm not getting the "plane with three curves" part. Then to "create a face using those" is way beyond me. All my stuff with fusion is "day one" stuff. Never did curve stuff before.
Thanks. I'll work on it. It isn't so much I want one, but more want to understand the mechanics of how it is done.
I'm guessing this "parrametrics" comes into the equation somewhere in the scheme of things.
So many brilliant new findings hiding in plain sight...
Gives me hope
I do 3D art and I have got to "Discover this new shape" a couple times, either doing booleans or retopology. 😂👌
Wow mathgrrl is really cool for providing that model for free
im gonna stick a couple circles together and clip an edge off and call it a Fakiicoid
You spelled it wrong, it's Fukiicoid.
And where can I find this shape in nature?
@@kekayaan6337 If you jab a big Q tip up your nose and try to find some brain matter, pull it out and look at it. There is some there.
@@ranbymonkeys2384 then you can find it up your nose as well. Since I can’t be the only sample size in a scientific discovery.
@@kekayaan6337 It's a shape of cells so they can be assembled to hold together. What made you think it's all about you?
Looks like it would be cool for modular robotics. Magnets and pins that allow communication and sharing of resources. Wheels at the base so each cell can move to another cell that is lower in power. All sharing power to increase "health" of the entire tissue. The cells closest to the food source could be tasked with charging. Bases with compatible charging pins, etc. Could be an interesting way to model the behavior of slime molds.
Why the hell they discover these. New shape means new properties and more formulas and more study damn it lol
I love how in this era of history, people who make significant advancements in biotechnological research will be remembered by names such as MATHGRRL (with two Rs)
hahah
🤔Wouldn’t it be cool to see a building designed to look like this? (Take note any architects visiting here!…)
I thought the same thing! and I am an architect 😯
Engineers, get ready for another headache!
@@_p1x
😮Whoa!
🤔Seriously-would/could it be *that* bad?(!)…
3d modelers are discovering new shapes every day
Was thinking this.
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@@3DPrinterAcademy i failed to mention that i have it for 6 months and have successfully printed only 4 stuff.
I only tried to use it the first month and last week but the rest of the time i have it stored in a box because i genuinely have anger issues when using it .i have got burned by it countles times and broke my heater from frustration
Cool I'm made out of this new shape
Can't wait to show it off to my friends
Technically it's a FORM since shapes are 2D 🤓
I discovered so many shapes just using the eraser
... there are no "new" shapes, what the fokk are you talking about?
Untill humans start creating shapes that use more than our 3 spatial dimensions, shut up about new shapes.
He means a newly recognized shape
Hate to break it to you, but we know of shapes in way more than just 3 dimensions already.
Not new shape, newly discovered to be occurring naturally. It’s the building block of cells.
This can be very useful in building Interlocking Blocks for Sidewalk roads.
I wonder what other scientific breakthroughs RUclips recommendations will show me especially now that I clicked on this video.
I wonder how you‘d calculate the surface area and perimeter
Can't wait for the rectagon episode 😗
Lower the size of pentagon, print multiple model. With enough passion and determination, we can assemble them into a ball like shape
1:20
Them: "And they officially gave it a name."
Me: "Yeah, let's know what is name of this"
Them saying that name for literally one minute already ~
Having a shape named after you is probably the biggest flex ever
"Discovered" is a strong word for this one!
I never thought I would be intrigued by a shape
How does an Scutoid behave in 4D? Idk ask NA.
Wow you primed that really well.
The geometric shape was first described by Pedro Gómez-Gálvez and collaborators in a July 2018 publication.
The discovery was the result of research by the Department of Cell Biology and the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville of the University of Seville (Kingdom of Spain) led by Luis M. Escudero.
Hi does it tile space?
now just start adding this feature in circle and triangle , rectangle and triangle or hemisphere and octagon. so many new formule to learn in future.
I am happy that I didn’t have to find the volume of this in math
Looks like the freedom tower shape
They discover a new shape just before my math final. GREAT! ITS IN 2 DAYS!!!
That's a win for the name of it and how it got it.
Great video. Even Microcenter is awesome.
Oh the scutoid? I made one in math class in 8th grade and got expelled. Glad to see the world is ready for it now
that you remove the e in the title and description but still saying 'escutoid' is a bit trolly
In the video he mentions the shape is discovered recently but I actually saw videos about this shape 4 years ago.
Kudos to the new gen who are gonna get mensuration math questions in their exams of this shape
0:32 What is the device that you're holding against your palm? Brand/model/store?
It's nice that 2 blocks can join on 1 face. But do many of the same shapes join nicely together too?
I wonder how this shape would work as a gear tooth profile? Helical gear teeth slide past one another due to an axial force created by the helical shape (i.e. one gear will try to "climb" the other gear). With this that would be prevented and they would be self aligning like a herringbone gear but the axial load would still be in only one direction.
That's a good point. You could possibly make a much more compact and fast gear circuit.
Impractical and complicated af
Do many Scutoids pack neatly together? I see two being friends, but what about others? Is there someone with a 3d printer that can make many Scutoids and bunch them together please?
This wouldnt be considered a prism because a cross section parallel to the bases would not be congruent to the bases, it would be considered a pyramid
Technically it's not even a polyhedron--some of the faces are not flat. But it is a specific, well-defined shape.
@@5thearth Not necessarily flat - depends on how it's actually formed, but a scutoid can definitely be a polyhedron. At least according to Wikipedia, the sides are "not necessarily planar," but its easy to imagine how one would be made so (and easy to test, if you've got some paper and interest)
I was kinda hoping for some geometry trivia, on the geometric side this was kinda bare bones.
Discovered a new shape my ass. Seen this shape years before. only thing that happened was a research paper was written on it
Oh wow, in romanian, we say "scut" for shield (from latin, of course) so that was actually my first guess since it's called SCUToid. Pretty funky.
Yo thanks for the 100$ off coupon!!!! I’m hype to build my printer
Thank goodness I'm not in school anymore, I'd dread finding the total surface area or lateral surface area of this thing!!!!
can't wait for a Scutoid Rubik's Cube
please no haha
That shape was given a name with such a deep and complex backstory, as a joke.
Imagine a mixed-use development built using repetitions of this shape. What a cool way to tie a biologically necessary geometrical form into a place where we could live/work/play.
It’s all fun and games until the math teacher tells you to find the surface area and the volume
me before a few years: *tries to make some shapes in a blender*
me now: lol I'm a scientist
Why is there this periodic beeping noise? The music is already too loud and drowning you out, was that really needed on top of it?
Dude! I'm asking the same question! It was bothering me through the whole video
Thats super cool and I learned a lot but Inhave to say: wtf, I want a microcenter near me!!!
Babe wake up new shape just dropped
It upsets me that I think I can hear your 3d printer running in the background....
I was so confused until I figured out it was the video.
Welp, time to teach this new shape to our children now!
That micro center built different