Mathematicians’ Favorite Shapes Hold the Key to Big Mathematical Mysteries ...

Imagery of fractured terrain on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter’s moon Europa pinpoints environments influenced by water.

A polygon is a 2D shape with straight sides that meet at vertices. Polygons have three or more sides. Have a look at these three shapes. One of them is not a polygon. Can you work out which?

Growing up in Japan in the postwar years, Kashiwara was drawn to maths, he recalls a common Japanese maths problem known as ...

Optimization using CBE loss requires a fine-grained ground truth (FineGT), which is a fixed-length list of polygon vertices. However, not all datasets have FineGT, and creating FineGT is costly. In ...

What are the different types of CAD? Computer-aided design, or CAD, began in the late 1960s and early in the 1970s and was developed internally by big aerospace and car companies ...

Hard surface modeling where you use 3D polygon shapes and vertices to form an object, and digital sculpting where you work with virtual clay. Hard surface is good for modeling things like ...

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