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27 Apr 2024 07:24:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Borderless One-sided Surface From Hell Strikes Again  
From: Urs Holzer
Date: 26 Jul 2008 13:15:55
Message: <488b5bcb@news.povray.org>
somebody wrote:
> Of course in 4D (which is inherently more interesting than 3D), it
> becomes just a regular surface/volume, not much more interesting than
> the Moebius band or even a torus in 3D.

The interesting property is that klein's bottle can not be "oriented".
It has only one "side" like the moebius band. So it is a little bit
more strange than a torus. Though I do not know whether it is more
interesting from a mathematical point of view. (Whatever that
means ...)


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