FoxTrot by Bill Amend for August 09, 2015
Transcript:
Jason: Cylinders? boy: Nope. Jason: Pyramids? boy: Nope. Jason: Spheres? Hemispheres? boy: Nope. Nope. Jason: Hexagonal prisms? boy: Nope. Jason: Planes? Dodecahedrons? Ring Tori? boy: Nope. Nope. Nope. Jason: You're telling me all you have are cones? boy: Yup. Jason: The ice cream industry needs to hire some geometry nerds. Peter: Would a waffle plane be infinite? I'd totally get one of those.
Templo S.U.D. about 9 years ago
I think ice cream already comes in spheres when you scoop them out of their cardboard cylindrical and rectangular prism containers.
hariseldon59 about 9 years ago
No cylinders? Don’t they have cups as well as cones?
Pretzelcoatl about 9 years ago
It would be pretty tough to scoop ice cream into a sphere or a dodecahedron.
dadoctah about 9 years ago
I say we start packaging ice cream in rhombic dodecahedra. They’re space-filling, like cubes, so they can be packed efficiently.
jimboylan about 9 years ago
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.
nosirrom about 9 years ago
The only measurement a true ice cream aficionado cares about is volume!!!!
diGriz about 9 years ago
How about a Klein waffle? That’d be great.
Chris Kenworthy about 9 years ago
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.
jimshari222 about 9 years ago
What a cute little math app at the top! I like the levels, easy, medium, hard, and Jason!
rdh288 about 9 years ago
Technically, a waffle cone should be infinite too, but waffle conical section is too long of a name.
Jogger2 about 9 years ago
How about a waffle Gabriel’s Horn? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Horn
WaitingMan about 9 years ago
I want an ice cream tesseract.
scyphi26 about 9 years ago
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.
gammaguy about 9 years ago
“… they’re really just a section of a cone.”.Ice cream…OK in comic sections, but much better in conic sections.
Ed Brault Premium Member about 9 years ago
Damned Geometry majors!
rgcviper about 9 years ago
Well, at least the new Banango Berry flavor (see sign below the ice cream dude) sounds tasty.
Tarredandfeathered about 9 years ago
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..
nathanbtlr about 9 years ago
Mom, I wish you were still here to explain this to me.
Andrew Bosch Premium Member about 9 years ago
Isn’t “ring tori” redundant?
meg_grif about 9 years ago
Parabolic hyperboloid? Hyperbolic paraboloid?
awgiedawgie Premium Member about 9 years ago
Yes, but Peter, then you’d blow up like a whale like you did after eating pizza for 12 hours straight.
.uʍop ǝpısdn ǝɹɐ no⅄ over 2 years ago
What about Möbius strips?