just bought a pack of pringles & i'm starting to think the actual support region is slightly elliptic but i don't think anyone cares
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The reason Pringles fit so nicely in a cylindrical tube is because they're hyperbolic paraboloids plotted over a circular domainpic.twitter.com/BUzjPw7e17
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Varying the semi-major axis of the Pringles' support regionpic.twitter.com/ZotI1Fwlxp
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Are they, though? They look more like they're plotted over an elliptical domain fairly smaller than the cross section of the can. IMO the advantage over flat ellipses is the traction created by contact between curved surfaces preventing the stack from collapsing inside the can
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Send me Pringle’s and we’ll find out
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Why would this be any better than any other function plotted over a circular domain? Why would this be any better than flat disks (which one would be able to pack more of, for that matter, without wasted space at top and bottom)?
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would be harder to grab a circle
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Pringle chip being unraveled into a circle through a gradient descent of extrinsic curvature (the embedding is really in 4d here)pic.twitter.com/eRMJdNN3ZG
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okay i see you aneesh
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