1stQ@feddit.org to Mildly InfuriatingEnglish · 2 days ago"Moebius strip"feddit.orgimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down18
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minus-squareNoSpotOfGroundlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 days agoThis is what you get if you cut a Möbius strip along its length. And if you were to cut it again now, you’d get two intertwined rings.
minus-squareSpaceNoodlelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours agoWait, really? I thought intertwined rings was the first thing you got. But I haven’t thought about this for a few decades.
minus-squareNoSpotOfGroundlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoHere’s a video: https://youtube.com/shorts/KfbCbYSebW0 Apparently if you cut it just once, off to one side instead of along the centerline, you then get intertwined strips right away. Things are weird: https://youtube.com/shorts/QmrIPBavH8o
This is what you get if you cut a Möbius strip along its length. And if you were to cut it again now, you’d get two intertwined rings.
Wait, really? I thought intertwined rings was the first thing you got.
But I haven’t thought about this for a few decades.
Here’s a video: https://youtube.com/shorts/KfbCbYSebW0
Apparently if you cut it just once, off to one side instead of along the centerline, you then get intertwined strips right away. Things are weird: https://youtube.com/shorts/QmrIPBavH8o