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=== Three-dimensional version === <!-- This section is linked from [[Sphere]] --> [[File:Reuleaux-tetrahedron-intersection.png|thumb|Four balls intersect to form a Reuleaux tetrahedron.]] The intersection of four [[ball (mathematics)|balls]] of radius ''s'' centered at the vertices of a regular [[tetrahedron]] with side length ''s'' is called the [[Reuleaux tetrahedron]], but its surface is not a [[surface of constant width]].<ref name=weber>{{citation | last = Weber | first = Christof | year = 2009 | url = http://www.swisseduc.ch/mathematik/geometrie/gleichdick/docs/meissner_en.pdf | title = What does this solid have to do with a ball?}} Weber also has [http://www.swisseduc.ch/mathematik/geometrie/gleichdick/index-en.html films of both types of Meissner body rotating] as well as [http://www.swisseduc.ch/mathematik/geometrie/gleichdick/meissner-en.html interactive images].</ref> It can, however, be made into a surface of constant width, called [[Reuleaux tetrahedron#Meissner bodies|Meissner's tetrahedron]], by replacing three of its edge arcs by curved surfaces, the surfaces of rotation of a circular arc. Alternatively, the [[surface of revolution]] of a Reuleaux triangle through one of its symmetry axes forms a surface of constant width, with minimum volume among all known surfaces of revolution of given constant width.<ref name="ccg">{{citation | last1 = Campi | first1 = Stefano | last2 = Colesanti | first2 = Andrea | last3 = Gronchi | first3 = Paolo | contribution = Minimum problems for volumes of convex bodies | title = Partial Differential Equations and Applications: Collected Papers in Honor of Carlo Pucci | publisher = Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics, no. 177, Marcel Dekker | year = 1996 | pages = 43β55}}.</ref>
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