[A person offering a second person a Klein bottle. The second person rejects the Klein bottle. They have a plate of regular three dimensional shapes in front of them. They have picked up a rectangular prism on their fork. In the upper left corner is the text: “No! A responsible adult says no to non-orientable shapes”]

  • throwing_handles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is about as accessible as it can get: https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~jms/Papers/isama/eversions.pdf

    The magic happens at the center-point of the surface where the three self-intersections meet. When you ply the surface apart, a tiny cube forms at the triple-point and begins to grow.

    Morin’s surface is slightly less complex than splitting the boy’s surface apart, in that sphere eversion halfway model, a trapezoid forms instead of a cube. Inverting a trapezoid in this way is the minimum complexity required to turn a sphere inside out.

    Videos I enjoy:

    Outside in , which uses a technique different than those above (there’s also a parody out there where the narrators get snarky at eachother)

    The optiverse , which uses Morin’s surface mentioned above, but is as ‘smooth’ as mathematically possible.