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Is there a proper name for a square (or rectangle) with rounded corners?
It's such a common shape these days (just look around you!), but I can't think what they're called 😕 - and it's bugging me
Is there a proper name for a square (or rectangle) with rounded corners?
i think the new name for this is circle
iSquare?
A rountangle.
I thought it was a Squircle...
roun[b]d[/b]tangle.
It's a safety square. (-:
It's actually a squircle, believe it or not. I think 'rounded square' is also valid.
in 3DSMax the 3d version is called a chamfered box.
Ah, Wikipedia knows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle
Apparently it's a special case of a [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipse ]superellipse[/url].
Cartouche?
And, it seems that a squircle and a rounded square aren't quite the same thing.
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Squircle in black, rounded square in red.
Who knew.
Cartouche
Gesundheit.
the difference being quadrant or half parabola I spose?
No yeti, I left the d out intentionally. You can have too many ds in your life some days.
DDoh, sorry Darcy, I'm a liDDle obsesseDD.
Dunno about squircles & stuff but apparently the Bermuda Triangle used to be called The Bermuda Rectangle...
Until one of the sides mysteriously disappeared.
😆
probably been waiting 10 years for a thread to post that on 🙂
Or is it as old as Mr Milligan? 🙂
Squircle ????
If it wasn't there in black and white in Wikipedia, I'd think you were winding me up 🙄
I don't know the answer, but this thread has the making of turning into a right old ding-dong, with the possibility of someone issuing threats of actual violence should they meet their adversary in Real Life™....
Lol cougar 🙂
A rectangle with rounded sides was known as quartic when BL brilliantly fitted it as a steering wheel to the Allaggro in '73.
Allegro.
Ahem - "Allaggro" being a portmanteau of "Allegro" and "aggro", and ownership of one being "all aggro"...