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Using Maniview, an external module of Geomview, the user can fly around in the insider's view of the 3D Klein bottle. Note that spaceships in alternating columns are mirror reversed. This is a frame from the video "The Shape of Space". For more information, see Gunn's paper: ``Discrete Groups and Visualization of Three-Dimensional Manifolds,'' in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 93 (Anaheim, CA, August 1--6, 1993), pp. 255--262. In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series (ACM SIGGRAPH, New York, 1993).

How to make it: Maniview, an external module of Geomview, written by Charlie Gunn.

Image created: March 1993

Copyright © March 1993 by The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For permission to use this image, contact permission@geom.umn.edu.

External viewing: small (100x100 10k gif), medium (500x375 101k gif), or original size (640x480 373k tiff).

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Created: Thu Jun 25 15:09:39 CDT 1998 --- Last modified: Thu Jun 25 15:09:39 CDT 1998