Hey! Scientist found a new shape!

Pentahedroids are cool too. They are the 4-D analogue of the tetrahedron.

 

Dude, listen to yourself, computers are fairly new to biology?....in 2018?

 

The publication and free pdf.

Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia
Pedro Gómez-Gálvez
Nature Communicationsvolume 9, Article number: 2960 (2018)
Published: 27 July 2018

Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia

 

A distinguishing feature of a scutoid is the presence of at least one vertex between basal planes. The prism, frustrum, and prismatoid do not have such a feature.


Scutoid - Wikipedia

A scutoid is a geometric solid between two parallel surfaces. The boundary of each of the surfaces (and of all the other parallel surfaces between them) is a polygon, and the vertices of the two end polygons are joined by either a curve or a Y-shaped connection. Scutoids present at least one vertex between these two planes. Scutoids are not necessarily convex, and lateral faces are not necessarily planar, so several scutoids can pack together to fill all the space between the two parallel surfaces. They may be more generally described as a mix between a frustum and a prismatoid, both of which are modeled in a diagram to the right.[1][2]