Read the Nature paper for yourself:
"Scutoids are a geometrical solution to threedimensional packing of epithelia"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...

Thanks to Laura and Clara for helping me with the video!

You can download Laura's model for free or order a print from Shapeways:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:302...
https://www.shapeways.com/product/L4D...

Laura Taalman, James Madison University
https://www.jmu.edu/mathstat/people/f...

Clara Grima, University of Seville
http://personal.us.es/grima/

These are the shows I was doing in Sydney:
https://www.mansw.nsw.edu.au/student...

But you can check out the Maths Inspirations shows in the UK:
http://mathsinspiration.com/

And we'll be in New York on 2 October 2018:
https://momath.org/upcomingevents/ma...

Images of cells and stuccoed are all from "Scutoids are a geometrical solution to threedimensional packing of epithelia".

Voronoi demonstration is from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi...

Thanks to my Patreon supports who do support these videos and make them possible. Here is a random subset:

Malcolm Rowe
Rhys Johnson
Brian Lynch
Jade Bilkey
John Lewis

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CORRECTIONS
Yes, I pronounce it SCOOtoid, SCOWtoid, SCOEtoid etc. Sorry. It's new! I actually think ESCOETOID is the most correct.
Alex Sweeney noticed that when I describe a prism I say it has rectangle faced sides. But that is only true of right prisms, in general a prism has side faces which are parallelograms. When I later talk about prismatoids I realised I had to be more general and said the sides are faces with three or four edges. But I should have done that earlier.
Let me know if you spot anything!

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