The Oloid is a shape discovered by Paul Schatz in 1929— the convex hull generated around two identical circles which are interlocked perpendicular to one another and spaced such that the edge of each passes through the center of the other. It is typically expressed as a solid.
This shape is special in a number of ways:
-Its internal structure is a vesica piscis with one of the circles rotated 90 out of the plane. It could be thought of as a 3-dimensional analog to this mystically charged shape.
-Its volume is equal to that of a sphere with the same radius.
-It is a developable surface, meaning its skin can be flattened into a plane without being distorted.
-When rolled, the Oloid travels in a straight line, but waddles back and forth across it.
The NOLOID is a wireframe of the internal structure— leaving out the surface and the volume. - Diagonal Press
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