A 2D shape is symmetrical if you can draw a line through the middle of it and either side is a reflection of the other. There is a very famous example of symmetry in nature - the butterfly.

The year’s biggest computer science stories included a new understanding of large language models, and a breakthrough in being able to compute complex quantum systems. We look back at three of the ...

And it's so good to be in all this nature because it's ... you have found the line of symmetry, or the mirror line. Can you see the two sides of this shape? They're just flipped, or a mirror ...

He noted that pyramid-like shapes are possible in nature, although it's rare to find mountains with four symmetrical walls. An example of this is the "pyramid" in Antarctica, whose genesis is a ...

These methods utilize shape signatures to identify potential symmetry directions and employ ... rotations in three-dimensional space. This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is one of ...