I definitely do not care about dicing an onion uniformly, but I read and enjoyed the entire analysis.
All of the diagrams are of a cross-section of the middle of an onion. You know, it being round and all, it naively makes a lot of sense to assume that’s going to be ok as a model for the entire onion.
But … I find myself curious … if the solution is to cut to an angle below the onion, and the article did point out that a few pieces along the bottom would be mismatched … It seems that we are overlooking the top and bottom of the onion where sections are going to get some really weird looking cuts.
They say, “This is an onion. (Well, a simplified cross-section of one.)”
… No. No that is not an onion. Its not that they’ve chosen an easy problem, but the approximation used here is not an onion.
I definitely do not care about dicing an onion uniformly, but I read and enjoyed the entire analysis.
All of the diagrams are of a cross-section of the middle of an onion. You know, it being round and all, it naively makes a lot of sense to assume that’s going to be ok as a model for the entire onion.
But … I find myself curious … if the solution is to cut to an angle below the onion, and the article did point out that a few pieces along the bottom would be mismatched … It seems that we are overlooking the top and bottom of the onion where sections are going to get some really weird looking cuts.
They say, “This is an onion. (Well, a simplified cross-section of one.)”
… No. No that is not an onion. Its not that they’ve chosen an easy problem, but the approximation used here is not an onion.