FoxTrot by Bill Amend for August 09, 2015

I think ice cream already comes in spheres when you scoop them out of their cardboard cylindrical and rectangular prism containers.

No cylinders? Don’t they have cups as well as cones?

It would be pretty tough to scoop ice cream into a sphere or a dodecahedron.

I say we start packaging ice cream in rhombic dodecahedra. They’re space-filling, like cubes, so they can be packed efficiently.

Ice Cream is sold in cylinders. The single serve version is sometimes called “Push Up”, because you use a stick to push the bottom up through the tube and force the product out the top. The large cylinders are sometimes called “Drums”, because they are so big.

The only measurement a true ice cream aficionado cares about is volume!!!!

How about a Klein waffle? That’d be great.

A waffle pyramid would be okay – basically that’d work like a cone with ridges. Around here we also see a lot of ice cream “cones” which have a wide cylindrical section above the flat-bottomed conic section below.

What a cute little math app at the top! I like the levels, easy, medium, hard, and Jason!

Technically, a waffle cone should be infinite too, but waffle conical section is too long of a name.

How about a waffle Gabriel’s Horn? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Horn

I want an ice cream tesseract.

I don’t see how those other shapes would be more effective at holding ice cream, or in the case of the cylinder, more exciting.

Though I’m with Peter. If the planes are indeed infinite, I’d get one.

“… they’re really just a section of a cone.”.Ice cream…OK in comic sections, but much better in conic sections.

Damned Geometry majors!

Well, at least the new Banango Berry flavor (see sign below the ice cream dude) sounds tasty.

How about a Soft Serve machine suspended over a Hammock?Just push the button to dispense each mouthful.Built in Pauses to prevent Brain Freeze..

Mom, I wish you were still here to explain this to me.

Isn’t “ring tori” redundant?

Parabolic hyperboloid? Hyperbolic paraboloid?

Yes, but Peter, then you’d blow up like a whale like you did after eating pizza for 12 hours straight.

What about Möbius strips?