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Outside in

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Author(s)

• Silvio Levy
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• Delle Maxwell
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  • URL : http://www.geom.umn.edu/people/maxwell.html
• Tamara Munzner
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  • URL : http://www.geom.umn.edu/~munzner

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• The Geometry Center
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  • Country : USA

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Description

Outside In illustrates an amazing mathematical discovery made in 1957: you can turn the surface of a sphere inside out without making a hole, if you think of the surface as being made of an elastic material that can pass through itself. Communicating how this process of eversion can be carried out has been a challenge to differential topologists ever since. Computer graphics helps to explain as well as present the visual elegance of this process.

• Date : 04:94

• Category : Simulation

• Theme(s) :

  • Maths

Technical Information

• Software: Custom, RenderMan, Softimage, Mathematica, Geomview, Perl
• Hardware: Silicon Graphics

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More Information...

• Bibliography :

  http://www.geom.umn.edu/locate/oi/biblio.html
  

• Abstract :

  The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smooth motions and self-intersections. With dialogue and exposition accessible to anyone who has some interest in mathematics, Outside In builds up to the grand finale -- Bill Thurston's ``corrugations'' method of turning the sphere inside out -- by discussing the related case of closed curves (which generally cannot be turned inside out) and by using everyday analogies such as train tracks, belts, smiles and frowns -- all richly animated and complete with sound effects.
  

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• Some external links :

  

  http://www.geom.umn.edu/locate/oi

• Some more Comments :

  If you have any questions about this information, please contact: Carol Scheftic at The Geometry Center (telephone: 612-626-8325).

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