You Won’t Believe How These Shapes Roll! New Discovery in Math

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Creator - Jade Tan-Holmes
Script - Joshua Daniel
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Chapters:
0:00-0:47 What's a trajectoid?
0:47-1:42 The basic idea
1:42-8:54 Cool math
8:54-10:40 Trajectoid Show-n-Tell
10:40-11:57 Applications of trajectoids

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@Kaldrin 3 месяца назад

Math is always about "this looks fun let's try" turning into "wait this is actually very useful"

@pumbaa667 3 месяца назад

My favourite example are Prime numbers. 2'500 years of research just for the fun of it. And finally a real life usecase appears with asymmetrical encryption ^^

@valiakosilla2413 3 месяца назад

Not always. If you do not believe me ask from my wife. I have used probably ten thousand hours to all kind of mathematic hobbies with very small useful results.

@aloysiuskurnia7643 3 месяца назад

I beg to differ! To me maths is about "this looks fun let's try it whether if it is useful or not!" leaving a lot of tools, possibly unuseful at the moment, scattered all around the place. Whether other branches of science accidentally stumble upon our tools and finding it useful is up to them, not us :^)

@sk8rdman 2 месяца назад

Not always. Many mathematical breakthroughs were made in the pursuit of a specific practical goal. I'm sure Newton was a mathematically curious guy, but that alone was not why he invented calculus. He was very interested in understanding planetary motion, and he invented calculus in the pursuit of a rigorous mathematical model that helped explain his observations. It's a similar story with Leibniz. He independently invented his own system of notation for what we now know as calculus, because he needed it to understand and design his calculating machines. It wasn't mere curiosity that motivated these men. They invented calculus because they needed it to solve other (very different) problems that they were working on. The pursuit of mathematical curiosity is great, and it's also great when we find our discoveries have unexpected applications, but it would be a mistake to say that that's how it always does or should work. In fact, understanding the specific sort of problem that motivated a mathematical discovery can often help provide context and intrinsic motivation towards better understanding the math ourselves.

@dominiklukacs7677 3 месяца назад

"So here is a trajectoid of my heartbeat" *Immediately stops*

@valiakosilla2413 3 месяца назад

I thought also that I would be somewhat worried if my heart was powered with trajectoid.

@Ath3nx_2 3 месяца назад

@@valiakosilla2413 same💀

@johnchessant3012 3 месяца назад

I really like clever ideas like changing from 1 to 2 periods that suddenly makes trajectoids a lot less rare!

@Sau1Bage2-im4mc 3 месяца назад

Im very much not lying but i had the same idea while watching the video before she said it

@IceMetalPunk 3 месяца назад

It goes from "infinitely rare" to "guaranteed" just by doubling and rotating. Sometimes math is very cool 😁

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 месяца назад

Feels like a hack.

@flameofthephoenix8395 3 месяца назад

What's most interesting is they said it was infinitely rare then showed that all infinite trajectories have a copy that makes the trajectoids showing that it is at least 50% of all trajectories.

@jeremyrixon150 3 месяца назад

Hey RU-vid Algorithm! Roll as many lumpy shaped objects as you have in this direction. We want people to follow the lines to UpAndAtom!

@upandatom 3 месяца назад

@Th3OneWhoWaits 3 месяца назад

😀

@freddyvejen743 3 месяца назад

yes we do!

@CMHE 3 месяца назад

Are you calling me a lumpy shaped object?

@firstname405 3 месяца назад

@CMHE we are all lumpy shaped objects 💖

@Splarkszter 3 месяца назад

Woah. You explain soooo well. I love the neat practical examples and everything. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

@upandatom 3 месяца назад

Thanks!

@gardenlizard1586 3 месяца назад

So working out the shape of the rock in rock and roll.😊

@ShawnHCorey 3 месяца назад

If a trajectoid doesn't complete the path ending in the same orientation, it will repeat the path at a different angle. If that angle is a rational number, it will eventually come back to the initial orientation and then repeat itself. If the angle is an irrational number, it will never repeat itself; the angle of its path will always be different from any before. PS: I should clarify. If the angle measured in degrees is rational, it will eventually repeat itself at the initial orientation. If the angle is measured in radians, then if angle/2π = a/b where a and b are integers, it will eventually repeat itself in the initial orientation. I made this clarification because mathematicians like to measure angles in radians.

@GlennHanna8 3 месяца назад

I agree with you on not being an expert at something yet being a good explainer by breaking things down. There's a joy in learning and understanding something that seemed difficult at first and then sharing all the parts that made it come together and make sense. Even mentioning the thoughts or ideas that might lead us the wrong way naturally and say "don't think of it that way like I kept doing... think of it this way instead" is very helpful.

@glennac 3 месяца назад

LOL! 😂 “Rightway up”. I see what you did with the globe Jade❣️😜

@silverharloe 3 месяца назад

10:30 so one could say you really put your heart into this video?

@upandatom 3 месяца назад

@JasmineLi 2 месяца назад

O-O

@jawaduddin4244 3 месяца назад

I saw your short on this and wrote an article on my engineering blog about trajectoids a little while back - thank you for bringing this back!

@iamsushi1056 3 месяца назад

This new field of physical geometry that’s coming up with things like gombocs and trajectoids is so cool.

@dj_laundry_list 3 месяца назад

What if I said that the Fourier transform decomposes a hilbert space into orthogonal basis vectors?

@ShaneH42 3 месяца назад

Geometry makes my brain not want to brain but your demos really helped. Great video

@mingmerci6103 3 месяца назад

I absolutely love this. This made me smile way more than it should

@upandatom 3 месяца назад

math is wonderful :)

@LetsGetIntoItMedia 3 месяца назад

I've been looking forward to this one! I remember commenting something about the physical practicalities of these shapes, so it was cool to see you explore those and highlight some issues here! Great video as always, Jade 🤩

@Nicks721 3 месяца назад

Absolutely incredible, you explain everything very smoothly (unlike the lines of some trajectoids you showed... the trajectoid of the line represanting the smoothness of your explanations will roll forever!!!)

@AsianDinner 3 месяца назад

I've been feeling very stupid lately, but I discovered your videos recently and I love how you present information in such a fun and approachable way. Thank you for your hard work, you deserve the million!

@BooleanDisorder 3 месяца назад

You have such a vivid and clear way to explain things. Thank you! 😎

@pluggedingaming8169 3 месяца назад

Having two periods, the same pattern mirrored on each side of the ball, it equally splits it perfectly in half and ensures that the path you want is still followed.

@debtanaysarkar9744 3 месяца назад

Yayyyy, you're back again, awesome video once again

@vladimir10 3 месяца назад

Awesome vid! Really missed your content, happy to see you again!

@raman_14264 2 месяца назад

Literally you talent is insane being a teacher, and also sense of humor. Your videos literally make maths a fun subject. Can't wait for your next video

@sosanzehra1227 3 месяца назад

Jade,I was eagerly waiting for your video and it was such a cool one!

@JaiMadhusuthan 3 месяца назад

Really great video as always. You are the best at explaining high level concepts you are my go to person for content like this!

@tagbon 3 месяца назад

Great video. Always fun and educational - thanks! 🥰

@me0101001000 3 месяца назад

I see this having interesting applications in materials science, too. There are lots of people in materials science who work on something called "Advanced Materials", which involves creating new materials from existing ones which have incredible new properties. I can see these trajectoids being used to inspire or even create new crystal coordinations with very interesting structures and properties. I'm excited to see this eventually trickle into my field!

@abdul-kabiralegbe5660 3 месяца назад

I'm happy to see this channel grow. Over 700k!

@aianyoung 3 месяца назад

Thank you for continuing to make excellent videos on complex subjects in an easily digestible way. I've greatly enjoyed watching your channel for the past few years!

@punditgi 3 месяца назад

Jade is back and totally awesome! ❤🎉😊

@AbdullahCumhur 3 месяца назад

I once saw your short video about this topic and I tried to recreate it myself but it didn't work, so after watching this video I'll try again lol

@cogwheel42 3 месяца назад

5:30 - Yes, I actually did! You did such a good job introducing the topic I anticipated the punch line :)

@gameon6252 3 месяца назад

Thank God you had stan with you jade , he is the MVP. Was always excited to know about trajectoids thanks Jade🎉

@aniksamiurrahman6365 3 месяца назад

Now I have a new challenge to these mathematicians - discover at least one trajectoid solid whoich traces a completely aperiodic path.

@benjaminwood8736 3 месяца назад

Not possible (I don’t think) because the shape would need an infinite number of sides, if it had a finite number of sides, when you push the shape from on face to another from the same direction, it always goes to the same next face (otherwise it wouldn’t make periodic things either), since pushing from each face in every direction leads to limited options, it means that eventually you would have do the same thing twice, I think the total number of options is somewhere in the ballpark of ((number of faces attacked to current face) * (number of faces)!)

@benjaminwood8736 3 месяца назад

Actually thinking a bit more it should be around (the sum of ((the number of attached faces to current face) * (number of faces)!) for each face)

@aniksamiurrahman6365 3 месяца назад

@@benjaminwood8736 May be. On a second watch, a different question came to my mind. The mechanics of real world trajectoids should also be studied. Like, how their mass, volume, the driving force, and the smoothness of the surface relate to mobility. That may not be that costly of a research either. But a quite laborious one. I think I shud post this reply too as a OP comment.

@MrHerhor67 3 месяца назад

Like, a ball?

@benjaminwood8736 3 месяца назад

@@MrHerhor67 A ball makes a straight line, the force put on the trajectoid doesn't change

@piyush197sharma 5 дней назад

I am following this channel for 2 years and realised that it was very brilliant part for me she cleared my all doubts about quantum physics and quantum biology thank you very very much

@Hossak 3 месяца назад

Hitting it out of the park as usual. Nice work Jade!!!

@adamengelhart5159 3 месяца назад

This is the most fun math thing I've seen since the monotile from last year! Thanks!

@MemphiStig 2 месяца назад

I always enjoy you explaining stuff and introducing me to things I've never heard of. Your videos are always well done, informative and fun.

@orterves 3 месяца назад

Everything about this is awesome

@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst 3 месяца назад

Your videos just keep getting better and better. I am in awe of not only your mathematical ability, but also your video production.

@alex4833 3 месяца назад

This is neat :). I was intrigued throughout and am interested in Brilliant's courses. Awesome video! Have a marvelous week, Jade! :). Take care.

@stephenpuryear 3 месяца назад

Jade I am so glad that you have persisted in making these videos. I also really love the background that you frequently shoot in front of. That particular shade of blue is soothing but also eye catching, along withe the formulas on the black placards Lastly, I am convinced that as a species, we need to keep descending deeper into three or more dimensions as we seek "explanations" for how our world really works. Thanks for these videos!

@gazman1238 3 месяца назад

Really fascinating. Thanks for the vid. These trajectoids seen to relate to a sphere the way a cam relates to a circle.

@DumbAi. 3 месяца назад

I found this channel yesterday and i already love it ! Go physics,math and astronomy ❤❤🎉🎉

@user-tc9qy8hv4n 3 месяца назад

Great video 😊 you make learning more fun.

@algorithminc.8850 3 месяца назад

A really fun one ... thanks ... Cheers ...

@drunkuchiwa9361 3 месяца назад

Great video !!!!!!!!!🙌

@kenjinks5465 3 месяца назад

When tiling a plane, you can start with a square lattice and manipulate the boundaries of one cell to create different shapes that tile the plane. If you start with a sphere with an equator, you can design a path so that when you apply your shape half way around the equator, and the inverse of the shape on the other half of the equator, the two halves will always have the same area. So, this is a tiling on a sphere problem, but you only get two tiles on the sphere. I wonder if it can be broadened and start with three equators at 90deg to each other, and apply the manipulation to the edges and constrain the eight faces to have the same area, what properties that object may have. Since the ball now needs to rotate less than 180deg to produce one period, the period I would theorize to be more stable.

@dhonantarogundul1737 3 месяца назад

Since Fourier Transform is also closely related to periodic things, I wonder if there is some kind of homomorphism going on between the trajectoid and the Fourier Transform.

@puffinjuice 3 месяца назад

I like how you demonstrated the ideas with a ball and clay snake. Clever!

@christoforusbayurisanto1793 2 месяца назад

Very insightful! Thank you

@kjh23gk 3 месяца назад

You explained this brilliantly!

@upandatom 3 месяца назад

thank you!

@pisscow6395 3 месяца назад

Such a cool video! I struggle a lot in understanding math and physics but this was so well explained and entertaining!

@ofgaut 2 месяца назад

Such a great and easy to understand explanation.

@davidgillies620 3 месяца назад

I saw this and immediately thought "parallel transport and spinors" and lo and behold, up pops the Bloch sphere. The angle doubling as applied to qubits is a dead giveaway. You see that everywhere, from light polarisation to quantum spin states.

@bungkiukissinquinker7563 3 месяца назад

I was missing this lady's videos for a few days now. Happy to learn new stuffs again from her.

@mohammadrezamoalemnia9201 3 месяца назад

I always learn from you and I love that!

@matteogiberti3297 3 месяца назад

As usual... Amazing video and Amazing Jade!

@LarkyLuna 3 месяца назад

This feels like a Fourier series but you're embedding the periods into a sphere instead of a complex circle I wonder if you can relate the two in any way or reduce fourier into a special case of trajectoids Very interesting math!

@DerpMuse 2 месяца назад

Not quite fourier. These trajectoids have an identity of 4pi.

@rpow6861 3 месяца назад

all this kinda stuff is so damn cool!! i haven't got a clue about any of it but that doesn't stop me from loving it!!

@JoshtMoody 3 месяца назад

This is freaking fantastic. Thank you so much for making this video. When I watched this I was instantly reminded of the WW2 'mechanical computers' to get pretty accurate shelling. This is taking it up a level though. I love it. I am going to try to make one of these things to make a mechanical computer to model levitation of liquid rubidium in vacuum. I can cross-reference to some FEM modelling in COMSOL and then have some decent confidence in my prototype before I assemble and test it. Thanks again I am so jazzed.

@CasshCoww 3 месяца назад

I like how the papers in her background changed orders

@powertomato 3 месяца назад

I started following this channel because I noticed familiar topics from my university classes and on each one I was thinking "I wish my professor was this good at explaining it". I really think this kind of breaking things up to its most basic concepts opens it up to a much broader audience and leads to a deeper understanding. Math and logic in school are often very dry and driven by purpose. That's like teaching art to learn brush techniques, but never stopping to appreciate how beautiful the paintings are. Thanks for showing the beautiful side of math.

@Mrkino 3 месяца назад

Thanks for another great video!

@bejoscha 3 месяца назад

As usual, a really well made video with nice and insightful illustrations, just the right speed and joyful presentation. And a cool topic of course as well. (One lost opportunity: Making a joke of needing a pacemaker for the heartbeat trajectoid.)

@captainchaos3667 3 месяца назад

Love the animations in this. Must have been a challenge.

@kam1470 3 месяца назад

I see Jade, i watch! :D Congrats on 714K Subs. Its been 500K the last time i congratulated, so you went a long way in short period of time.

@Impatient_Ape 3 месяца назад

So which set of orthogonal basis functions do you use to decompose the closed paths on the sphere? Is it still sines and cosines (Fourier)? Is it Legendre polynomials?

@dkloke 3 месяца назад

Heartbeat trajectoid is very cool, props to Stan! Has anyone thought about and tried having hollow trajectoids with one or more weighted balls (or trajectoids?) on the inside to gather and release the weight to overcome at least small loops and abrupt turns? These would have to be tuned for specific inclines and initial velocities. The path for the internal weights might have to be a tunnel, the path moving closer to the center then dropping towards the surface to give the kinetic kick to overcome the difficult transition. But not hard to realize with a 3D printer, although the inner weight (small ball bearing?) might have to be placed into the trajectoid during a pause in the printing process. Thank you for the video!

@ramonhamm3885 3 месяца назад

Fascinating!

@szboid 3 месяца назад

Thanks Jade, It brightens my day and my mind when I watch one of your videos.

@upandatom 3 месяца назад

Wow, thank you!

@spd4133 3 месяца назад

Wow it presents a fascinating theory

@faisalsheikh7846 3 месяца назад

Plz make a video on Godel Incompleteness theorem

@mimetype 3 месяца назад

Isn't it incomplete?

@NamanNahata-zx1xz 3 месяца назад

@@mimetype You did not just

@mimetype 3 месяца назад

@@NamanNahata-zx1xz Sorry :)

@AndTecks 3 месяца назад

my trajectoid landed me in jail :(

@AlperenBozkurt-tx2bx 3 месяца назад

How

@Shaynes73 3 месяца назад

So sorry

@AndTecks 2 месяца назад

lets just say, daddy Icarus flew too close to the sun. Don't make the same mistakes as me.

@AndTecks 2 месяца назад

@@AlperenBozkurt-tx2bx 42

@AndTecks 2 месяца назад

@@Shaynes73 ty love

@chad6849 3 месяца назад

Most underrated channel on YT. Note: due to content not because my daughter is named Jade as well.

@upandatom 3 месяца назад

@Lladra 3 месяца назад

Cool! thanks

@marcfruchtman9473 3 месяца назад

Interesting. Thanks for mentioning the Bloch Sphere.

@MathIndy 3 месяца назад

An electron requires 720 degrees to complete a single rotation. The two cycles of the trajectoid made me wonder if there is any mathematical connection between the two.

@marcfruchtman9473 3 месяца назад

@@MathIndyYes! Unfortunately, I am not a math head... I am sure Bohr could probably hash out the math. It might also just be that they share they same problem geometrically. And the quantum state is somehow related in that way... ( I have been trying to piece things together conceptually tho, and the 720 degrees relationship was very striking).

@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667 3 месяца назад

Awesome videos as always say 🌍🌟 You are awesome ❤ Take care

@chadjones1266 3 месяца назад

Thanks again

@bradycall1889 3 месяца назад

So cool!

@mikhailgastby4680 3 месяца назад

Fantastic. This shape made a new view to represent 3d objects and formal actions , great vídeo, and you run infinal vídeo Jade ? Hahahaja

@robertsmith4129 2 месяца назад

This is fascinating to me. I’ve studied a lot of math but have never really considered this concept.

@Amethyst_Friend 3 месяца назад

The famous raised eyebrow of curiosity. Thanks Jade

@Paddymadeathing 3 месяца назад

Reminds me of a sphericons which Maker's Muse (@MakersMuse) did a video on in a similar vain - modifications of solids in a wawy to create shapes that will roll smoothly along a none straight path

@jakubr2769 3 месяца назад

0:07 LITTLE PRINCE!

@mikchrungBLADES 29 дней назад

Jade, your videos are all easy to understand and relate to, and beautiful just like you.

@fnx427 3 месяца назад

Should've named them "Pathtatoes".

@LeeCanPotato 3 месяца назад

I look forward to signing things by rolling my own unique ball covered in ink.

@anthonycarbone3826 3 месяца назад

This sounds like it is a variation of the bezier curve mathematics.

@ornithopterindia 3 месяца назад

👍Thank you Madam.

@DhammaBOY 2 месяца назад

Loved your videos

@jonlbs7 3 месяца назад

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!

@saiganeshmanda4904 3 месяца назад

Can't really express how much I'm in love with this! I study at the Universitetet i Agder (UiA) in Norway and I think we have a 3D printer lying around somewhere in our Mechatronics Lab... now I want a trajectoid of my heartbeat and body silhouette drawn on the boundary xD 😂 Thanks for spreading your infectious passion for math into me. 3B1B and you have been strong forces for me to tinker about mathy-silly things that i daydream about ✨️ 💞

@maxwellhavoc6996 3 месяца назад

I can’t wait to try this for myself. I have a 3D printer too

@AdityaSharma-th1gl 2 месяца назад

Beauty with Brain😊 A very rare combination

@armanavagyan1876 3 месяца назад

Pretty interesting 👍

@HiggsBosonandtheStrangeCharm 3 месяца назад

....i had no interest in trojectoids until Jade presented them in this video.....she is such a great presenter.....such a pleasant voice......so bright.....i've fallen in love......with trojectoids that is........thank you Jade for making such wonderful videos......

@wjalp 3 месяца назад

Cool video!

@Geopholus 2 месяца назад

I am quite sure that this inquiry into trajectoids, has an absolutely MIND BOGGLING & universal application to helping explain /( prove ?) not only that string theory fits with TOE, but how electron "paths" result in constructively reinforcing standing waves (which result in fundamental particles), . I have done lots of experiments with what I call the "baseball curve" the shape of the two flaps of leather (equal in size) that are used to cover a baseball, and now see that the 2 pi R 180 degree rotation trajetoids also fulfill the property, of tracing a path around a sphere, that when translated by the trajectory of it's own outline, end up equally distributing coverage of the sphere,... (hence a stable standing wave)