Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in
news:cja### [at] netplexaussieorg: 

> In article <3ffd5873$1@news.povray.org>,
>  "Jason F. Kowalski" <jfk### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> 
>> > > The shapes are made with intersections of some tori.
>> > > (Except from the ground plane and the sky sphere.)
>> 
>> > A beautiful little object...a nice illustration of the relation
>> > between mobius strips and torii as well.
>> 
>> Mobius strips?
> 
> The white bands in that image. A Mobius strip is a ribbon loop with a 
> half twist, giving it one side.
> 
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MoebiusStrip.html


I was a bit surprised that you referred to them as
Moebius strips.

But then I saw that the Mathworld page you gave a
link to above mentions this specifically:


number of half-twists ... "

Nice to know.


Tor Olav

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