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From cubes to Miller's Monster, WatchData stretches its geometry vocabulary

Two new comparisons turn shape recognition into a test, from rotating mathematical models to country outlines.

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Comparison: Name Of Every 3D Shape

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0:00Rotating cubes, spheres and pyramids begin the comparison, paired with estimated recognition percentages.
0:30Tetrahedrons, octahedrons, dodecahedrons and icosahedrons expand the polyhedron vocabulary.
0:54The selection broadens to the torus, Möbius strip, geodesic dome and tesseract.
2:00The Sierpinski tetrahedron, Borromean rings and gyroid introduce fractals and less familiar mathematical forms.
4:55The Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron closes the list, with the on-screen nickname Miller's Monster.

How far beyond cube and sphere does your shape vocabulary go? WatchData's "Comparison: Name Of Every 3D Shape" starts on familiar ground, then works its way through toruses, Möbius strips and increasingly elaborate mathematical forms, ending with the formidable Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron, nicknamed Miller's Monster.

Rotating models do the explaining, with estimated recognition percentages supplying the countdown. Those percentages are the video's estimates, not established measures of what everybody knows. Viewers are doing some classification work of their own: several question the inclusion of higher-dimensional objects and fractals under a 3D title, while another admits to misreading the torus examples as trousers. Geometry has its lighter moments.

That upload drew roughly 49,000 views, making it the most-watched of the week's two arrivals. "Comparison: Can You Guess The Country From Its Shape?" takes the recognition game onto the map, with Italy's boot, Chile's long outline and Liechtenstein's smaller borders among the examples. It has the strongest daily momentum of the highlighted videos, followed by the geometry comparison and the older "Comparison: How Safe Is Tap Water Worldwide?"

Across the channel, viewing is running close to its usual daily pace, with about 1.5 million views added over the week and the subscriber count unchanged. Among nearby education channels, The People Profiles also had a substantial viewing week, while Answer in Progress is running below its usual daily pace. WatchData's own week kept the emphasis on a deceptively simple question: do you recognize what you're looking at?

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What viewers say

0:47 I read that as “Donuts, bagels, and life preservers are all shaped like trousers”
@apixoyy451See it on YouTube
I thought I knew all the basic 3D shapes until I watched this 😂 Some of these names are surprisingly hard to remember! Geometry class just came back to haunt me.
@CompareDataXTSee it on YouTube
How does he make everything 3D-
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I just noticed there's a gradient when it fully turned cyan
@StickminJuega-h2fSee it on YouTube
I think you forgot about pseudorhombicuboctahedron
@Loma10mmSee it on YouTube
Ok I am interested in math
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