Greg Egan on Nostr: That turns out to be quite tricky to achieve! If we construct a Möbius strip in the ...
That turns out to be quite tricky to achieve! If we construct a Möbius strip in the simplest possible way – taking a circle and sweeping a line segment around it that rotates by half a turn – we get the version shown here. Colour-coded by curvature, we can see it isn’t constant.
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