Nathan Sawaya

There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.

American Artist

Emily Procter

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

American Actress

Pranav Mistry

In computing, everything happens inside this rectangular screen. I want to get the pixels out, paint the world, and allow us to interact with it.

Indian Scientist

Andrew Luck

I don't like candy bars. I eat the big rectangular bars. You know - anything between 85 and 50 percent cocoa.

American Athlete

The term 'rectangular' is often used to describe everyday objects with four straight sides and four right angles.

Everyday Objects

Use 'rectangular' to help visualize objects when providing descriptions in both spoken and written English.

Visual Imagery

Remember that although all squares are rectangles, not all rectangles are squares; the sides can be unequal.

Not Always Square

'Rectangular' describes a number that's achieved by multiplying two different factors in mathematics.

Specific Math Term

To check for a rectangular number, see if it has at least two different factors besides 1 and itself.

Identifying Rectangle Numbers

'Rectangular' is used in geometry to describe figures with right angles and often in comparative sizing, such as in floor plans.

Geometric Applications

In some cases, 'rectangular' implies the longer sides of an object lie horizontal unless otherwise specified.

Orientation Matters

 every once in a while. And the result is you create these maps of what's under the sub-surface, right. There is some metal underneath this rectangular mound. We don't really know what it was but it wasn't-- we don't believe it was, you know what we were really looking for. So we push north, we push deeper

Genghis Khan’s Lost...

 and projects it on a page, and you can see the world outside you as you walk around it. This is just the outline of it, and you can see, does it look like a regular building? No. It's actually it's not up and down, square, rectangular, anything like that, that you'd see in a normal shape of a building.

Reed Kroloff:...

 between those two things the outside world and the creature who knots not only wants to survive but once it's kids to survive its species to survive the animal I that I love the most goat eyes I mean as soon as you hear for the first time about the rectangular shape of their pupil you go yeah I don't

Unlocking the Eyes PIPE...

 Because pixels are actually, right now, confined in these rectangular devices that fit in our pockets. Why can I not remove this confine and take that to my everyday objects, everyday life so that I don't need to learn the new language for interacting with those pixels?

The thrilling potential...

 For every object, we can locate the average position of all of its mass by taking into account how the mass is spread around the object. For instance, the center of mass of a flat, rectangular object of uniform density will be in the intersection of both diagonals,

An athlete uses physics...

 Contrary to popular belief, there is composition in virtual reality, but it's completely different than in film, where you have a rectangular frame. Composition is now where your consciousness exists and how the world moves around you.

The birth of virtual...

 forms is made up of hundreds of design decisions and constraints here's how it works that ballot looks like a book and it rests and in apparatus under which you slide a rectangular card on the card is printed a bunch of tiny little

Democracy is a design...

 Well, fortunately, we have a very helpful the desktop interface on your computer. Consider that blue icon for a TED Talk that you're writing. Now, the icon is blue and rectangular and in the lower right corner of the desktop.

Do we see reality as it...

 And it was a rectangular table, so there were people on both sides of us, and no one said anything, even people who might be in a position, bosses, no one said anything. And I remember I felt so alone.

Sakinah Hofler: How...

 horizontal rectangular pupils like goats are able to physically rotate their eyes inside their heads when they put their heads down to braids this protects them from predators they can see what's in