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New Reuleaux Triangle Magic

Today's video is about plane shapes that, just like circles, have the same width in all possible directions. That non-circular shapes of constant width exist is very counterintuitive, and so are a lot of the gadgets and visual effects that are "powered" by these shapes: interested in going for a ride on non-circular wheels or drilling square holes anybody? While the shapes themselves and some of the tricks they are capable of are quite well known to maths enthusiasts, the newly discovered constant width magic that today's video will culminates in will be new to pretty much everybody watching this video (even many of the experts :)

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  • Originally Aired February 16, 2019
  • Runtime 11 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created February 17, 2019 by
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  • Modified February 17, 2019 by
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