<story><title>Round Rects Are Everywhere</title><url>https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>porterde</author><text>Do you have a source for that fact?</text></item><item><author>orthoxerox</author><text>I know nuclear power stations have no sharp corners to make them easier to clean.</text></item><item><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>Sharp corners are dangerous, I always feel like those windows will draw blood if I touch them with my mouse wrong.&lt;p&gt;Strangely enough, I stayed in an East Asian hotel (I think with Tibetan influences?) and I remember the corners of the room all being rounded. It just felt better, more soothing? It would be hella expensive to get a craftsman to round all the corners in your room here in the west, you could do it with plaster but it wouldn’t last more than a decade and wouldn’t add any resale value.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Windows used rounded corners on its buttons from 1.0 to 3.11, then switched to square ones until XP&amp;#x27;s themed UI, where they were slightly rounded again, until 8 went back to square, and now with 11 they are again rounded:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;7389110&amp;#x2F;64139289-37026c80-cdf8-11e9-81b6-655f584b1bf3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;7389110&amp;#x2F;64139289-3...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I still prefer the sharp corners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acc_297</author><text>I was curious and went looking. This is the closest I found after a quick google search. It refers only to lighting options in the reactor chamber not the hallways and such.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nsenergybusiness.com&amp;#x2F;analysis&amp;#x2F;featurehow-to-choose-lights-for-nuclear-applications&amp;#x2F;?cf-view&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nsenergybusiness.com&amp;#x2F;analysis&amp;#x2F;featurehow-to-choo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;There are some obvious considerations: all underwater nuclear lights should be crafted from stainless steel with rounded and smooth surfaces for easy decontamination, and have no sharp or jagged edges to reduce the risk of workers tearing safety gloves or clothing. &amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Round Rects Are Everywhere</title><url>https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>porterde</author><text>Do you have a source for that fact?</text></item><item><author>orthoxerox</author><text>I know nuclear power stations have no sharp corners to make them easier to clean.</text></item><item><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>Sharp corners are dangerous, I always feel like those windows will draw blood if I touch them with my mouse wrong.&lt;p&gt;Strangely enough, I stayed in an East Asian hotel (I think with Tibetan influences?) and I remember the corners of the room all being rounded. It just felt better, more soothing? It would be hella expensive to get a craftsman to round all the corners in your room here in the west, you could do it with plaster but it wouldn’t last more than a decade and wouldn’t add any resale value.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Windows used rounded corners on its buttons from 1.0 to 3.11, then switched to square ones until XP&amp;#x27;s themed UI, where they were slightly rounded again, until 8 went back to square, and now with 11 they are again rounded:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;7389110&amp;#x2F;64139289-37026c80-cdf8-11e9-81b6-655f584b1bf3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;7389110&amp;#x2F;64139289-3...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I still prefer the sharp corners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heftig</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about power stations, but it&amp;#x27;s a common feature in medical devices.&lt;p&gt;E.g. keyboards have a flat or nearly-flat surface so they can be easily cleaned by wiping without leaving any germs behind in a groove, or on an edge.&lt;p&gt;I suppose something similar makes sense in an environment that could produce radioactive dust.</text></comment>