Sentence examples for two-dimensional shape from inspiring English sources

Only the two-dimensional shape of each wing, as opposed to its cross-sectional area, affected these calculations.

Collaborating with Rothemund and Adleman at USC, Winfree aims to fabricate a two-dimensional shape known as the Sierpinski triangle.

The Illinois researchers start by treating the surface of a thin, high-quality silicon wafer and using conventional lithography to etch out a thin, two-dimensional shape.

Adding light and shade on a flat, two-dimensional shape can give the illusion of a three-dimensional form.

In practice, however, the two-dimensional shape of the allotted pieces is important.

"It's quite a defined two-dimensional shape when you look up at the sky, but when you travel around it you realize it's a constantly moving, indeterminate shape".

For other familiar concepts, there exist analogies most noticeably, volume for area and three-dimensional shapes for two-dimensional shapes (sphere for circle, tetrahedron for triangle, box for rectangle).

In this image the Pyramids of Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, are transformed into almost two-dimensional shapes.

Previous work used a method called "DNA origami" to design two-dimensional shapes from DNA; further studies have built upon this approach to create shapes in three dimensions.

Bryan, Michelle and Joanna's paper Self-assembly of Complex Two-dimensional Shapes from Single-stranded DNA Tiles is published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE).

In fourth grade, for example, the report recommends that the curriculum should center on the "quick recall" of multiplication and division, the area of two-dimensional shapes and an understanding of decimals.