The Death Star is a near-perfect sphere, a hundred miles across, with a planet-vaporizing laser. In Orlin's version, Lord Vader nixed design shapes like pyramids, cubes, or a cylindrical Death ...

The sphere geometry was generated with the Lithophane Sphere Maker online tool combined with NASA data of the moon intended for computer graphics purposes.

In this picture, we can see two scholars seated beneath a grand structure called an armillary sphere. An armillary sphere is an ancient tool that represented the heavens. It used geometrical angles to ...

Math Trek Grocers stacking oranges demonstrate intuitive grasp of sphere-packing math By Julie Rehmeyer November 14, 2011 at 12:02 pm - More than 2 years ago ...