Table of Figures:
The following entries will display the picture using an extern GIF
viewer. The arrow links
(indicated by
"")
will take you to the page where the figure is used.
Movies:
- Levels sets of the polyhedral surface (60K)
- Building up the polyhedral surface (200K)
- The polyhedral surface rotating (340K)
Interactive Pictures:
- The complete polyhedral surface
- The central projective plane
Geomview objects:
- The complete tight surface
- The central projective plane
- The complete surface with
transparent convex envelope
Views of the polyhedral object:
- The complete surface from above
- Front right corner, from above
- Front right corner, from the side
- Right-hand side
- Back right corner
- Front left corner, from above
Level sets:
- Levels for the polyhedral object:
- The initial circle
- Pulling one side across the other
- Adding the triple point
- The triple point
- Completely across the loop, moving toward a
saddle
- Just before the saddle
- The critical level
- Just after the saddle
- Pulling back toward the edge
- The final circle
- Levels drawn by Kuiper:
- All levels
- The initial circle
- Pulling one side across the other
- Adding the triple point
- Just before the saddle
- The critical level
- Just after the saddle
- Pulling back toward the edge
- The final circle
Templates for building your own model:
- (not yet ready)
Pictures from Kuiper's Paper
[K2]:
- The level sets for an immersed projective
plane
- Ruled surfaces to connect the levels
- A tight two-handled torus
- A tight Klein bottle with a handle
Miscellaneous:
- Tight polyhedral torus, two-handled torus,
and Klein bottle with a handle
- How the triple point is formed within the
level sets
- Polyhedral analogues of cusps and folds
- A Klein bottle
- The M+ and M- regions for
a Klein bottle
- A Möbius band
- An exotic polyhedral monkey saddle
- Adding a polyhedral handle tightly
- Some polyhedral surfaces that are not tight
- The neighborhood of a non-bounding
embedded curve on the projective plane
- A tight torus and its decomposition into
the M+ and M- regions
- The triangulation of the projective
plane that forms the tight model, together with its double curve
- An immersed, but not embedded, topset
8/13/94 dpvc@geom.umn.edu --
The Geometry Center