Monday, July 21, 2008

mobius strip image

Welcome to the Mobius strip image. For those of you who don't know what a Mobius stip is, the instructions are simple. Take a long strip of paper and tape the ends together, but in a special way. Give the paper a half-twist before taping it so that you end up taping the back side of the paper to the front side. The result will look something like this:









mobius strip image

The Mobius Strip has some very special properties because of this. For example, because you taped the back side to the front side, the Mobius Stip is a one sided object. Also, because you taped the top edge to the bottom edge, it is a one-edged object. It starts looking really interesting when you try to straighten out the single edge into the shape of a circle (don't try this with an actual piece of paper!).

mobius strip image

mobius strip image

mobius strip image

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