A Reuleaux triangle [ʁœlo] is a curved triangle with constant width, the simplest and best known curve of constant width other than the circle. It is...
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prototypical example, the Reuleaux triangle, which in turn is named after 19th-century German engineer Franz Reuleaux. The Reuleaux triangle can be constructed...
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best remembered for the Reuleaux triangle, a curve of constant width that he helped develop as a useful mechanical form. Reuleaux was born in Eschweiler...
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named by analogy to the Reuleaux triangle, a two-dimensional curve of constant width; both shapes are named after Franz Reuleaux, a 19th-century German...
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shapes by Leonhard Euler. Standard examples are the circle and the Reuleaux triangle. These curves can also be constructed using circular arcs centered...
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circle and the Reuleaux triangle. For a circle, the width is the same as the diameter; a circle of width w has perimeter πw. A Reuleaux triangle of width w...
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twin circles Bankoff circle Circular triangle Reuleaux triangle Circumcircle Disc Incircle and excircles of a triangle Nine-point circle Circular sector...
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the fruit connecting it to the outside. The skin is shaped like a Reuleaux triangle coloured green and rough in texture. Due to the soft flesh and structure...
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from an equilateral triangle by subdividing recursively into smaller equilateral triangles) and Reuleaux triangle (a curved triangle with constant width...
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called a triquetra. The center of the 3-circle figure is called a reuleaux triangle. Some spherical polyhedra with edges along great circles can be stereographically...
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forms a circular triangle whose sides are all convex. An example of a circular triangle with three convex edges is a Reuleaux triangle, which can be made...
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polygon, a curve of constant width Reuleaux triangle, a Reuleaux polygon with three sides Reuleaux heptagon, a Reuleaux polygon with seven sides that provides...
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In plane geometry the Blaschke–Lebesgue theorem states that the Reuleaux triangle has the least area of all curves of given constant width. In the form...
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three circles can also be used to form the triquetra symbol, and the Reuleaux triangle. In Christian art, some aureolas are in the shape of a vertically...
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intersection of three circular disks forms a convex circular triangle. For instance, a Reuleaux triangle is a special case of this construction where the three...
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vertices lie at the three corners and one of the side midpoints of the Reuleaux triangle. An equidiagonal kite is a special case of a midsquare quadrilateral...
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B-spline Ogee Loess curve Lowess Polygonal curve Maurer rose Reuleaux triangle Bézier triangle Caustic including Catacaustic and Diacaustic Cissoid Conchoid...
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distinctive packaging that dispenses one mint at a time, and for their Reuleaux triangle shape. The name is a portmanteau of "sugarfree" and "mint", not of...
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mortisers is a Harry Watt square drill bit, in which a bit with a Reuleaux triangle cross section is allowed to "wobble" while it rotates within a square...
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be predicted if the frequencies are known; for example, whether a Reuleaux triangle can be recognized in this way. Kac admitted that he did not know whether...
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Hanns-Dieter Paschke. The Wankel engine's rotor is similar in shape to a Reuleaux triangle, with the sides having less curvature. The rotor spins inside a figure-eight-like...
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the triangles, for which this measure is 1/2. The curve of constant width with the smallest possible Estermann measure is the Reuleaux triangle. The...
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π times its width. The Reuleaux triangle (formed by the intersection of three circles with the sides of an equilateral triangle as their radii) has the...
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Geometrical construction of the Reuleaux triangle style of heater shield, for use as an heraldic escutcheon...
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below). TP3 (sometimes referred to as tri-lobe or tri-lobular) uses a Reuleaux triangle-shaped recess in the screw head, to make it semi-secure because it...
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shape of a Reuleaux triangle. Because of that study, pads upon which SMA antennas can be placed were arranged to form four Reuleaux triangles, with the...
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Euclidean plane are solid regular polygons, solid triangles, and intersections of solid triangles. Some examples of convex subsets of a Euclidean 3-dimensional...
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axially-symmetrical. Two well known non-axially-symmetrical rollers are the Reuleaux triangle and the Meissner bodies. The oloid and the sphericon are members of...
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indicator". These watches marked the introduction of the Wankel-inspired Reuleaux triangle to operate the remontoire. In 1981, Pratt embarked on combining the...
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Prime geodesic Projective line Ray Regular parametric representation Reuleaux triangle Ribaucour curve[3][4] Riemann–Hurwitz formula Riemann–Roch theorem...
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