Sentence examples for of constant width from inspiring English sources

Shapes of constant width?

It seems at first that a shape of constant width — a shape that would support a smooth glide — would have to be round.

In the trike and coaster displays there are things we might want to know about objects of constant width or catenary curves, but there is little detail.

Our first puzzle this week is based on MoMath's Coaster Rollers exhibit, in which a plexiglass platform glides smoothly over a variety of shapes of constant width that the MoMath fondly refers to as "acorns".

An interesting feature by using RBDMs is that the credible intervals are not of constant width.

A periodic radial inhomogeneity is analyzed by dividing the cylinder into annular segments of constant width.

The width of the thermal window for seedling development varied from 28.7 to 31.0 °C depending on the nutrient supply, which differs from the theoretical prediction based on the biochemical kinetics of metabolism of a constant width of 20 °C (Gillooly et al. 2002; Charnov and Gillooly 2003).

We explored the reconstruction algorithms with varying number of iterations (keeping the number of subsets constant), width of post-filters, and size of the reconstruction matrices with focus on high-resolution imaging of small lesions (see figures for details).

The observation of a constant width of the Z-ring irrespective of the total cellular FtsZ level could be due to two different possibilities.

We utilize a commonly-used binning method where each site in the database is sorted into bins of a constant width based on its distance from the point of origin.

Under the same operating conditions, the comparisons indicate that variable width collectors exhibit performance behavior similar to those of the constant width corresponding models, but it is accompanied by a marginal decrease in air temperature rise and collection efficiency along with a slight increase in fan power consumption.