What shape is this?

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gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 48d (2 replies)

Ah, the classic Egyptian Eye pose.

ickplant@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 48d

Hmmm, I think you are right. She is just throwing it back to the times when cats ruled… wait, how is that different from present day?

PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 48d

The Eye of Horus I believe

Shaper@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 48d (1 reply)

Actually there is unironically a word for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthotonus

ickplant@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 48d

Amazing!

Jerb322@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 48d

Cat hat hook.

Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 48d (1 reply)

noodle

ickplant@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 48d

fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 48d (1 reply)

That shape is called a "cat".

qwank@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 48d

The true answer here

Tetsuo@jlai.lu · 15 pts · 48d

~

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 48d (4 replies)

I think it's one of these...

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 46d

First thing I thought of as well

ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 48d (2 replies)
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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 47d (1 reply)

Counting right-to-left?

ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 47d
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everett@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 48d

Bezier purrve.

Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 48d

Catenary curve.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 48d

Reticulated sp(l)ine.

rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 48d

Purrabola

tetrachromacy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 48d

Purr-abola.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 7 pts · 48d

Tilde

Appropriate that it's used in logic to denote negation, and you have a void there.

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 48d

Cat-shape #8.

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 48d

Cat

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 48d

Looks exactly like a cat to me. Nice shadow puppet.

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 48d

new kind of maths: that is a pair-of-bollock curve

Speiser0@feddit.org · 6 pts · 48d

Flat.

All shadows are flat.

raynethackery@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 48d

It's a trap.

nexguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 48d

This is, scientifically speaking, called "stretcho's"

veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 48d

Catatellogram.

AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 47d

Void

OhmeHose@feddit.org · 4 pts · 48d (1 reply)

inverse banana

PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 48d

aka banana

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 48d

Better fix that hole in the floor.

Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 48d

It's .9π

catbum@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 48d

Hoooogarfield curve.

Matombo@feddit.org · 3 pts · 48d

Jigglypuff seen from above!

tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 48d

My god I wish I could do that. I can curl up in a ball and then my fat fucking ass can't breathe.

matelt@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 48d

Either good kitten or sausage

AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 48d

Classic yawning pose. Arching pose?

cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 43d

That would be a 3 dimensional image of the 4 dimensional hyper-cutie

Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 47d

As a German, I can offer "Ein Schluck Wasser in der Kurve".