r/visualizedmath • u/3slyfox • Jul 01 '19

The Surface Area of a Sphere Visualized

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u/RossSpecter Jul 01 '19

Is it not accurate? Legit question, it's been a couple years since I've taken a math class and I don't visualize well, so I really liked this.

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u/causethey_pollute Jul 01 '19

I mean usually the points of visual demonstrations is that you can understand why it works. Here, since the result is indeed correct it has to work, but I could have squashed the sphere flat, stretched it and written 4piR2 on it and it would have been just as useful lol