Researchers at TU Delft have combined origami techniques and 3-D printing to create flat structures that can fold themselves into 3-D structures like tulips. The structures self-fold according to a ...

Mori3's triangular, modular design allows it to fuse with its companions, and could one day make it into space. By Andrew Paul Published Jun 13, 2023 10:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Plans and elevations are 2D drawings of a 3D shape when looked at from different perspectives. Isometric close isometricA method of drawing a 3D shape from a specific perspective. dot paper is used to ...

Two-dimensional (2D) shapes are completely flat. They have two dimensions – length and width. A polygon is a closed 2D shape with straight sides that meet at vertices. Polygons can be regular or ...

Flat-pack furniture is commonplace, and flat-pack pasta might be one day too. Wen Wang of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and her colleagues have developed edible 2D pasta that swells into ...