Raindrop Geometry
I love the rainy season and everything that comes with it: relaxing at home when it is pouring, walking by the beach when it is drizzling, feeling the raindrops on your face and even drawing ‘the monsoon’ pictures with my LO. It was while making one of such drawings that we started talking about the shape of a raindrop 💧. Or at least the shape that is usually drawn. Is it an oval? Is it a sphere? Is it a cone? No. It looks very different than all these simple shapes. Then we thought it might be a combination of two shapes. A circle plus a triangle in 2D. Draw a circle and put a triangle on top of it. Colour it and you have a raindrop. Similarly, you can create the raindrops in 3D with a sphere and a cone. As you can imagine, the discussions with kids never end when the things are still simple and explainable. So, we progressed to the number of angles and sides the shape of a raindrop has. Well, if we are drawing a triangle at the top, there is one angle. And the number of sides? Now...