{"id":196452,"date":"2024-09-20T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/mathematicians-discover-new-class-of-shape-seen-throughout-nature"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:26:17","slug":"mathematicians-discover-new-class-of-shape-seen-throughout-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/mathematicians-discover-new-class-of-shape-seen-throughout-nature","title":{"rendered":"Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematicians-discover-new-class-of-shape-seen-throughout-nature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mathematicians have described a new class of shape that characterizes forms commonly found in nature \u2014 from the chambers in the iconic spiral shell of the nautilus to the way in which seeds pack into plants.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2018Soft cells\u2019 \u2014 shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane \u2014 feature in onions, molluscs and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematicians have described a new class of shape that characterizes forms commonly found in nature \u2014 from the chambers in the iconic spiral shell of the nautilus to the way in which seeds pack into plants. \u2018Soft cells\u2019 \u2014 shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane \u2014 feature in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}