Imagine that you want to know the most efficient way to make a torus—a doughnut-shaped mathematical object—from origami paper. Instead of seeming almost perfectly smooth, the torus that you envision ...

A curtain opens on a stage to reveal different shaped animated characters - a sphere, a cube and a pyramid. NARRATOR: It's crunch time for the 3D crew. And who's going to take home the coveted, and ...

Two-dimensional (2D) shapes are completely flat. They cannot be picked up. A polygon is a 2D shape with straight sides that meet at vertices. Polygons have names that show the number of sides they ...

In this first part of our deeper look at 3D game rendering, we'll be focusing entirely on the vertex stage of the process. This means dragging out our math textbooks, brushing up on a spot of linear ...

A pair of mathematicians solved a legendary question about the proportion of vertices in a graph with an odd number of connections. “It’s a bit of a surprise, at least for me, that such a combination ...