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I wondered the same thing when I saw the wooden table, which surely has deviations > 10 microns. Possibly there are approximate Gömböc shapes that are "good eno
by codingthebeach 15y ago
I wondered the same thing when I saw the wooden table, which surely has deviations > 10 microns. Possibly there are approximate Gömböc shapes that are "good enough" without being mathematically perfect.
- caf 15y agoThe implication of the result is that all the real "Gömböcs" are really such "almost Gömböcs", since any deviation at all from the correct shape technically destroys it.
- v21 15y agoNot necessarily: the Gömböc-shape could be a envelope of similar shapes. Any object within that envelope is a Gömböc, and ones just outside it are "almost Gömböcs"
- caf 15y agoIt could be, but it isn't, which is part of what's so interesting about it. (And that's leaving aside the more fundamental point that the very definition of a Gömböc isn't applicable in the physical world, where objects do not have precisely defined edges and cannot be completely homogenous).