>> ^arvana:

They remind me of the Gömböc, but with quite a different function.

Me too...

A Wankel-Rotor is NOT a Reuleaux Triangle!

>> ^TheFreak:

Isn't Wankel feeling rather smug right about now.


I thought the same thing, and Wikipedia greeted me with this:

"The rotor of the Wankel engine is easily mistaken for a Reuleaux triangle but its curved sides are somewhat flatter than those of a Reuleaux triangle and so it does not have constant width. "

Source (English translation) http://translate.google.de/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.der-wankelmotor.de%2FTechniklexikon%2Ftechniklexikon.html&sl=de&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8

I'm still partial to the reference though.

Isn't Wankel feeling rather smug right about now.

Reminds me a bit of a Wankel Rotary engine.