Randomized trial demonstrates new fuzzy number methods for modeling physical shapes, highlighting measurement errors.
Mathematical models of physical objects customarily rely on idealised Euclidean geometries, representing boundaries as crisp, continuous lines or surfaces. However, physical reality – ranging from the surface of a rubber ball to biological membranes – is characterised by microscopic roughness, textural undulations, and measurement ambiguity. This paper introduces a method to model such geometries using fuzzy valued functions. By understanding the radius of a parameterised curve outlining a physical object in polar or spherical coordinates not as a scalar, but as a fuzzy number derived from Gaussian measurement error models via truncated probability distributions, one captures both macroscopic shape and microscopic roughness. The paper further demonstrates how global geometric properties – Circumference, Area, Surface Area and Volume – can be derived as fuzzy numbers through the integration of these functions.
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