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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whereas with a circular region that fills the cross section of the can there's not much reason to have a curved shape instead of a flat one since there's no space for it to collapse anyway.
i see what you're saying, i guess i just thought they made the cross section of the can a bit bigger than the support region of the pringle
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So...for us less mathematically inclined out here...both correct, depending on initial conditions?
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I think as a matter of fact what shape the pringles actually are we'd need the 2D projection of an actual pringle .. a shadow from a distance or a trace of the edges will do
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