Curves of Constant Width
Audience: high-school
Tags: geometrycurvesshapesconstant-width
A math explainer about 2D shapes with a special property: constant width in every direction.
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The animations are nicely done. At times I did get a bit confused by the text but the animations cleared it up. Anyways it tackled a kind of interesting topic which I knew very little about and it explained it very clearly. I especially likes the part explaining Geometric Continuity and degrees of Geometric Continuity.
I thought this was going to be too long but it was the perfect-ish length. Although a few things could have used a few more words/paragraphs, and a few things some less.
There were also some times where I was confused as to the relevance of the text/words, but this could be fixed by adding a sentence, or rearranging things.
Excellent use of sliders to allow me to truly understand the core of what was presented at a deeper level
The article is great although I’m not quite convinced that most high school students would fully understand it.
Cool visualisations!
This was a great entry that I enjoyed. The animations are beautiful and very clear, and the motivation was well explained. I do wonder if you could have related the shapes to something in the real world, maybe like those cool drill bits that can create a square shape.
I cannot say that this is a very novel visualisation because the animations are similar to one of the winners of the first SoME competition (the beauty of bezier curves). However the interactivity with the sliders is great and illustrates the parameters very well! Overall this was a well written and engaging entry.
Diagrams! Monospace! From the foundations!
Great visuals, but it felt a bit tangential towards the end, especially for a high-school audience.
This seems like a really good article to explain the concept graphically, rather than when I learned it through just reading. A bit too technical for highschoolers perhaps.
Great article with good explanations and very good supporting widgets.