Klein Bottle
Klein Bottle is a topological surface, given by a parametrisation, immersed, with a point group.
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aperiodic closed closed-nonorientable def-parametric immersed implemented non-orientable topological tradition-classical tradition-physical-model
About
A bottle whose inside is its outside: a surface with no boundary and no two sides at all. It cannot be built in three dimensions without passing through itself, and the familiar glass models cheat exactly there. In four dimensions the self-intersection can be undone.
Formula
Properties
- Family
- topological
- Given by
- a parametrisation
- Curvature
- no condition imposed
- Periodicity
- not periodic
- Ends
- 0
- Embedding
- immersed
- Orientable
- no
- Symmetry kind
- point group
- Fidelity
- exact
- Exactness
- elementary
Definition
Franzoni's classical bottle shape, the operator's default rendition: a tube of radius r(u) about the stretched dumbbell directrix, upright with the long axis on Oz. The u = pi tube end meets the u = 0 end in the same circle under v -> pi - v, and the mesh is glued closed there. The paper's shape numbers (a, b, c, d) = (20, 8, 11/2, 2/5) are baked in at their dumbbell scaling (5, 2, 1/2, 1/30); the older polynomial immersion stays reachable as the operator's POLYNOMIAL rendition
Sources
Chart reproduced numerically against the shipped implementation: fwd max 0.48 of tol, 1.0% of oracle beyond tol (tol floor 2.5 x 0.04376).
- F. Klein, 'Ueber Riemann's Theorie der algebraischen Functionen und ihrer Integrale' (1882).