Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

American Actor

Radial as an imagery suggests spokes spreading from a center, like a wheel or flower.

Visual Imagery

When describing influence or effect, 'radial' implies it spreads outwards affecting a broad area.

Wide Influence

'Radial' in medicine pinpoints specific locations, typically on the lateral side of the forearm.

Anatomical Precision

Using 'radial' indicates a precise area in medical contexts, requiring knowledge of anatomy.

Specificity Matters

'Radial' indicates a straight-line movement from the center outwards in technical fields.

Technical Movement

Precise radial movements are often crucial in machinery for smooth operation.

Mechanical Precision

'Radial' in botany describes the circular pattern in which leaves or petals are arranged.

Circular Arrangement

Radial patterns are common in nature and can be a focal point for discussions on natural symmetry.

Nature's Patterns

'Radial' refers to a tire's construction method, important for performance.

Automotive Component

Knowing 'radial' can help distinguish between tire types, such as 'bias-ply' and 'radial'.

Not Just Any Tire

 a lot of information that may not be visible to the human eye. So, for instance, we can plot the length of the edges. White surfaces have long edges, black ones have short ones. We can plot the planarity of the surfaces, their curvature, how radial they are -- all information that may not be instantly visible to you,

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 But when it occurs in animals, this kind of symmetry is known as radial symmetry. For instance, some sea urchins and starfish have pentaradial or five-fold symmetry, that is, symmetry with respect to rotations of 72 degrees around their center. This symmetry also appears in plants,

The science of symmetry...

 At the center where those radial lines are, it's wider in your visual field than the parts above and below. And this is remarkable, because it's a remarkably simple stimulus. It's just a bunch of straight lines. Why should one of the most complicated objects in the universe

Why do we see illusions?...

 So there's a dot on here for every galaxy. They go out and point a telescope at the sky, take a picture, identify what are stars and throw them away, look at the galaxies, estimate how far away they are, and plot them up. And just put radially they're going out that way.

The design of the...

 any of the cool stuff we've got now. And it was an arm that, instead of hinging and pivoting as it went across the record, went a radial, linear tracking tone arm. And it was the hardest invention I ever made, but it got me started, and I got really lucky after that.

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 it's had a surprising influence on Mercury's overall size, by causing it to shrink. The hot iron core has slowly cooled and contracted over the planet's 4.5 billion years. In doing so, it pulled Mercury's surface inward, and has caused the planet to shrink radially

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 I've been collecting over time, and it really shows the immense visual diversity of this new metaphor. And here is an example. On the very top band, you have radial convergence, a visualization model that has become really popular over the last five years.

A Visual History of...

 It's seeing a much wider view than the human eye is. So if you think about the points of light that show up radially from the vision of the camera, which is the thing that how many points of light can I get in a given volume?

The dawn of the age of...

 its daily toil paves the way for entire ecosystems to thrive. Sea cucumbers are members of the phylum Echinodermata, along with sea urchins, starfish and other radially symmetrical,

This sea creature...

 of them have electronics inside they're high power LEDs and in radial modules that allow the balloons to talk to each other and people are able to talk to the