{"id":23736,"date":"2016-05-16T23:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23736"},"modified":"2016-05-16T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T22:00:30","slug":"137-what-is-a-reuleaux-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/16\/137-what-is-a-reuleaux-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"137: What is a Reuleaux triangle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has nothing to do with today – which was mostly spent making spreadsheets for some assessments, alongside some of that teaching lark.<\/p>\n

I love the work of Matt Henderson, who posted this<\/a>\u00a0on his blog yesterday evening:<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Reuleaux triangle is built from three circles. As it rolls, its height is always the radius of one of the circles – a constant. This makes it a curve of constant width, just like a circle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Matt Henderson’s Reuleaux triangle: http:\/\/blog.matthen.com\/post\/144384785211\/a-reuleaux-triangle-is-built-from-three-circles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has nothing to do with today – which was mostly spent making spreadsheets for some assessments, alongside some of that teaching lark. I love the work of Matt Henderson, who posted this\u00a0on his blog yesterday evening: A\u00a0Reuleaux triangle is built from three circles. As it rolls, its height is always the radius of one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3355,3,18],"tags":[248,3709,1911,1914,3708,3707],"class_list":["post-23736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3355","category-awesomeness","category-maths","tag-animation","tag-geometry","tag-maths-2","tag-matt-henderson","tag-matthen","tag-reuleaux-triangle","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-6aQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23737,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23736\/revisions\/23737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}