The upcoming Olympics’ Aquatic Center, commonly referred to as the Water Cube for its translucent, bubbly design, had its long awaited opening last week for tourists and early testing of the pools.

Corner cube prisms, or retroreflectors, are often used in applications requiring beam steering, such as laser resonators, surveying, alignment, and communications. Knight Optical’s corner cube prisms ...

Volume close volume The amount of space occupied by a 3D shape, measured in cubic units such as cm³, mm³, and m³. May also be referred to as capacity. is measured in cubic units such as cm³ or m³. The ...

Apple continues to win patents detailing advanced technology rumored to show up in next year's iPhone model, the most recent being a pair of inventions dealing with "super resolution" multi-sensor ...

Polarizing Cube Beamsplitters split randomly polarized beams into two orthogonal,linearly,polarized components. S-polarized light is reflected at a 90deg.Angle while P-polarized light is transmitted.

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...

At this point, it would be fair to assume that you know your shapes: Square, circle, triangle… uh, the other ones. Of course, there are three-dimensional ones as well, and again, I’m sure you’re ...