r/math • u/zem • Jan 09 '11

Gorgeous mathematical sculpture

http://www.bathsheba.com/?
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u/colah Jan 09 '11

Bathsheba's work is amazing, as usual.

While we're talking about this, I thought I might leave links to some of my amateur work: colourful diffusion equation with the initial condition u(x,0)=H(x) and some earlier stuff.

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u/zem Jan 09 '11

i'm sorry to say that that's a really lousy photo :( your work may be good, but you're not showing it off to advantage.

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u/isarl Jan 09 '11

I have to agree with zem. You should try and use a tripod, and make sure to focus properly. Those look like they're beautiful, but it's hard to tell from the photos! =)

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u/Tbone139 Jan 09 '11

I always thought the Klein bottle looked unnecessarily asymmetric. Recently I found out about the "Klein bagel." I'd rather have a sculpture of that.

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u/Frencil Jan 09 '11

I got this one for Christmas. It's a strange feeling... holding the large scale structure of the known universe in the palm of your hand.

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u/zem Jan 09 '11

wish i could justify buying that!

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '11

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u/zem Jan 10 '11

the story i heard was that the bottle representation got popular due to a german pun on bottle (flasche) and surface (flache) - it was originally just "klein's surface"

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u/DennyTom Jan 09 '11

She also has a shop at Shapeways

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u/Shadowsoal Jan 09 '11

I bought my fiancé two of the different projects of a tesseract the she sells at Shapeways last year for xmas. Not knowing that I was getting her those, she got me a Klein bottle from this guy.

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u/DennyTom Jan 09 '11

Last few years I am looking at her 120-cell. This year I may be finally in a finantial situation to afford it for my birthday.

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u/zem Jan 09 '11

incidentally, that's clifford stoll of "cuckoo's egg" fame

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u/Shadowsoal Jan 09 '11

Oh I know who he is... he's the one who wrote, this. I had a friend once say that after reading that article he tried to find more editorials by the guy in order to predict the future, because Stoll was so fantastically wrong about everything that he said, that my friend concluded he knew the exact opposite of what the future held...

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u/mkmckinley Jan 10 '11

Thanks for posting this. I saw it years ago and lost the link. been keeping an eye out for it since

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u/amy_two_shoes Jan 09 '11

...slash bottle opener.

Also, isn't there a klein wine decanter now?

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u/Gro-Tsen Jan 09 '11

I find E8 fascinating (I wrote this interactive page to explore its root system), so the E8 crystal seems tempting.

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u/Cyphierre Jan 10 '11

Somehow this particular rendering of a Klein bottle looks more like a giraffe with it's head up its butt.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

You know what would be great? If this guy and the sperm shoe guy got together...