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[Mjolinor]

This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open) brains in
here than most newsgroups.

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?

If you have difficulty imagining what I mean take a tyre off a car and fill
in the two holes with plates or take a doughnut and fill it with cream
(that's a more appealing option).

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:08:23 -0000, "Mjolinor" <mjolinor@hotmail.com>
wrote:

This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open) brains in
here than most newsgroups.

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?

If you have difficulty imagining what I mean take a tyre off a car and fill
in the two holes with plates or take a doughnut and fill it with cream
(that's a more appealing option).

spheroid ?

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[Roger Gt]

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"Mjolinor" wrote
: This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open)
brains in
: here than most newsgroups.
:
: If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially
a squashed
: sphere what is the correct name for the shape?
:
: If you have difficulty imagining what I mean take a tyre off a
car and fill
: in the two holes with plates or take a doughnut and fill it with
cream
: (that's a more appealing option).

A Disk?

 

[Joe Bott]

"Mjolinor" <mjolinor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open) brains in
here than most newsgroups.

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a
squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?

Wow, now this question is drivng me crazy. I'd call it a closed torus, but I
dont know if anyone would know what I meant. The 3d modeling program "3ds
Max" calls it a type of "Chamfer cylinder".

Joe

 

[Charles Jean]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:08:23 -0000, "Mjolinor" <mjolinor@hotmail.com>
wrote:

This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open) brains in
here than most newsgroups.

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?

If you have difficulty imagining what I mean take a tyre off a car and fill
in the two holes with plates or take a doughnut and fill it with cream
(that's a more appealing option).

oblate spheroid?


The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.

 

[John Fields]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:08:23 -0000, "Mjolinor" <mjolinor@hotmail.com>
wrote:

This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open) brains in
here than most newsgroups.

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?

If you have difficulty imagining what I mean take a tyre off a car and fill
in the two holes with plates or take a doughnut and fill it with cream
(that's a more appealing option).

---
Actually, I think it's called a squashed sphere!

Google "squashed sphere" for some interesting hits.

--
John Fields

 

[JeffM]

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is
essentially a squashed sphere what is the correct name for the shape?
Mjolinor

A radiused cylinder?

 

[Airy R. Bean]

A Cream Doughnut?

"Mjolinor" <mjolinor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a
squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?..... take a doughnut and
fill it with cream

 

[H. Dziardziel]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:08:23 -0000, "Mjolinor"
<mjolinor@hotmail.com> wrote:

This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open) brains in
here than most newsgroups.

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?

If you have difficulty imagining what I mean take a tyre off a car and fill
in the two holes with plates or take a doughnut and fill it with cream
(that's a more appealing option).



oblate ellipsoid of revolution

 

[CWatters]

Does it matter _how_ flat the top and bottom are? What about Earth shaped?

According to..
http://www.rovaniemi.fi/lapinkavijat/maupertuis/shape.html
....the earth is a "ellipsoid"

More here..
http://www.geod.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e/geodesy_e/whatis-05_e.html

.....but if you were to remove the flat bits the wouldn't be a "hole" due to
the earths proportions.


"Mjolinor" <mjolinor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open) brains in
here than most newsgroups.

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a
squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?

If you have difficulty imagining what I mean take a tyre off a car and
fill
in the two holes with plates or take a doughnut and fill it with cream
(that's a more appealing option).

 

[Cowboy67]

"Mjolinor" <mjolinor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ez8Yb.245$oK2.33@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net...

This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open) brains in
here than most newsgroups.

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a
squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?

If you have difficulty imagining what I mean take a tyre off a car and
fill
in the two holes with plates or take a doughnut and fill it with cream
(that's a more appealing option).

I would call it one fine tastin' donut. You know, with the cream and all!.
LOL

 

[Mjolinor]

"Mjolinor" <mjolinor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ez8Yb.245$oK2.33@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net...

This is completely off topic but there do seem to be more (open) brains in
here than most newsgroups.

If you fill in a circular toroid shape so that it is essentially a
squashed
sphere what is the correct name for the shape?

If you have difficulty imagining what I mean take a tyre off a car and
fill
in the two holes with plates or take a doughnut and fill it with cream
(that's a more appealing option).

Hmm, 10 replies and 10 different answers. Aside from the obviously correct
(cream doughnut) there was onlly one without a question mark or exclamation
mark so my money goes on "oblate ellipsoid of revolution".

FYI the question came up in another newsgroup I read that discusses LPG
conversions on cars. Manufacturers have started producing these as a larger
capacity tank than the normal toroid to sit in the spare wheel carrier and
replace the spare wheel.