Turning a sphere inside out.

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Commentary, Nelson Max, Stephen Smale, Charles Pugh, Judith Bregman

Produced as part of the Topology films project

Intended audience: College and adult

Issued also as videorecording

Uses advanced computer animation to discuss the problem of turning a sphere inside out by passing the surface through itself without making any holes or creases. Illustrates the homotopy with a sequence of models, showing the crucial stages in the motion
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Title from data sheet

Commentary, Nelson Max, Stephen Smale, Charles Pugh, Judith Bregman

Produced as part of the Topology films project

Intended audience: College and adult

Issued also as videorecording

Uses advanced computer animation to discuss the problem of turning a sphere inside out by passing the surface through itself without making any holes or creases. Illustrates the homotopy with a sequence of models, showing the crucial stages in the motionNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

More in Topology Series

  1. Space Filling Curves 1972
  2. Regular Homotopies In The Plane, Pt 1 1973
  3. Regular Homotopies In The Plane, Pt 2 1975
  4. Turning a sphere inside out. 1976

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, genre, description, catalog record, video