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Scutoids Are Live! (Patreon)

Published:

2018-12-20 21:36:29

Imported:

2026-06

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Hello good humans!

I'm very excited about this video. I've really fallen in love with scutoids in the past few months, and I hope the care and attention comes through.

I appreciate your being patient and supportive as I obsessed over how to make the perfect papercraft scutoid, how to film in VR180 while still maintaining my style, and obsessiveness about every single prop and shot and word. It's done! It's out! I hope people like it both in and out of VR, and that it serves as an example of what the format can do beyond vlogs.

I've also created a scutoid webpage, still a work in progress but that collects all the bits I've talked about in these posts as well as other info.

Now that the series is started I hope to have the next couple videos out soon (meaning in the next month or two). I'm working on one just about how to make them that will go into the papercraft versions more, and then a video on monkey bread (which will mostly be about monkey bread and not scutoids, but y'know).

ooh now I'm hungry.

bye!

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Scutoids

Best Shape of 2018! This video is VR180, so if you have a cardboard or other headset you can see the shapes in stereo, or looking around in magic window on a phone is pretty cool too. Scutoids are officially named for the first time in this paper: "Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05376-1 Special thanks to Clara Grima for answering my scutoid questions, and to Laura Taalman and Tom Ruen who contributed to the creation of paper scutoid nets based off of 3D scutoid models by Laura Taalman, who invented the packable pair of identical scutoids (see https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3024272 ) , and John Peplinski, who created the space-filling cairo tile scutoid design (see https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3042446 ). More on that next time! Also thank you Caleb Wright, Albert Wenger, Pat Devlin, David Perryman, Jade Bilkey, Chris Pierik, Donald “Chronos” King, Andew Romaner, Jodi Vezzetti, Carol Ghiorsi Hart, Andrea Di Biagio, Charley Sheets, Yana Chernobilsky, David A Smith, Michael Tiemann, and all of my patrons on Patreon! You too can support my work here: https://www.patreon.com/vihart For more on scutoids, including paper nets: http://vihart.com/scutoids