This problem has been widely discussed in some

online discussion forums under the name

"the teabag problem", and someone has a nice

website on it.  AFAIK no one has proved any

suggestion to be optimal.  There are more ways

to embed the teabag isometrically in 3-space

than it may seem at first.

 

--Dan

 

 

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Hello everybody,

 

I always been puzzled by this fact :

 

I just went to the grocery store to buy plastic garbage

bags. They sell it in various sizes in liters but the

format is in inches like 26 x 36 inches.

 

That model if I recall has a volume of 121 liters.

 

But actually if I have a square very thin plastic

bag and I inflate the bag with air what is the shape of

an inflated bag? (square of rectangular).

 

Is this problem has been addresed before?

 

What is the volume? of an inflated 1 meter x 1 meter bag.

for sure the surface is 2 square meters.

 

Any idea someone?

 

Simon Plouffe