Bridges 2013

1. Bridges 2013 Girl’s Surface

2. The Projective Plane -- Equator projects to infinity. -- Walk off to infinity -- and beyond …come back from opposite direction: mirrored, upside-down !

3. The Projective Plane is a Cool Thing! • It is single-sided:Flood-fill paint flows to both faces of the plane. • It is non-orientable:Shapes passing through infinity get mirrored. • A straight line does not cut it apart!One can always get to the other side of that line by traveling through infinity. • It is infinitely large! (somewhat impractical)It would be nice to have a finite model with the same topological properties . . .

4. Trying to Make a Finite Model • Let’s represent the infinite plane with a very large square. • Points at infinity in opposite directions are the same and should be merged. • Thus we must glue both opposing edge pairs with a 180º twist. Can we physically achieve this in 3D ?

5. Cross-Surface Construction

6. Wood / Gauze Model of Projective Plane Cross-Surface = “Cross-Cap” + punctured sphere

7. Cross-Cap Imperfections • Has 2 singular points with infinite curvature. • Can this be avoided?

8. Can Singularities be Avoided ? Werner Boy, a student of Hilbert,was asked to prove that it cannot be done. But he found a solution in 1901 ! • It has 3 self-intersection loops. • It has one triple point, where 3 surface branches cross. • It may be modeled with 3-fold symmetry.

9. Various Models of Boy’s Surface

10. Key Features of a Boy Surface Boy surface and its intersection lines Its “skeleton” orintersection neighborhood The triple point, the center of the skeleton

11. The Complex Outer Disk

12. Boy’s Surface – 3-fold symmetric • From Alex Mellnik’s page: http://surfaces.gotfork.net/

13. A Topological Question: • Is Werner Boy’s way of constructinga smooth model of the projective plane the simplest way of doing this? Or are there other ways of doing it that are equally simple -- or even simpler ? • Topologist have proven (Banchoff 1974)that there is no simpler way of doing this;one always needs at least one triple point and 3 intersection loops connected to it.

14. Is This the ONLY “Simple” Way ?(with one triple point and 3 intersection loops) • Are there others? -- How many? • Sue Goodman & co-workers asked this question in 2009. • There is exactly one other way!They named it: “Girl’s Surface” • It has the same number of intersection loops, but the surface wraps differently around them.Look at the intersection neighborhood: One lobe is now twisted!

15. New Intersection Neighborhood Boy Surface Girl Surface Twisted lobe!

16. How the Surfaces Get Completed Boy surface (for comparison) Red disk expands and gets warped;Outer gray disk gives up some parts. Girl Surface

17. Girl’s Surface – no symmetry • From Alex Mellnik’s page: http://surfaces.gotfork.net/

18. Transform Boy Surface into Girl Surface

19. The Crucial Transformation Step r-Boy skeleton r-Girl skeleton (b) Horizontal surface segment passes through a saddle

20. Compact Models of the Projective Plane l-Boyr-Boy Homeomorphism (mirroring) Regular Homotopy Regular Homotopy twist one loop Homeomorphism (mirroring) l-Girlr-Girl

21. Open Boy Cap Models Expanding the hole Boy surface minus “North Pole” C2 Final Boy-Cap

22. A “Cubist” Model of an Open Boy Cap Completed Paper Model One of six identical components

23. C2-Symmetrical Open Girl Cap C2

24. The “Red” Disk in Girl’s Surface Boy- & Girl- Paper model of warped red disk Intersection neighborhoods

25. Cubist Model of the Inner “Red” Disk

26. Cubist Model of the Outer Annulus The upper half of this is almost the same as in the Cubist Boy-Cap model Girl intersection neighborhood

27. The Whole Cubist Girl Cap Paper model Smoothed computer rendering

28. Epilogue: Apéry’s 2nd Cubist Model Another model of the projective plane

29. Apery’s Net of the 2nd Cubist Model ( somewhat “conceptual” ! )

30. My First Paper Model • Too small! – Some elements out of order!

31. Enhanced Apery Model • Add color, based on face orientation • Clarify and align intersection diagram

32. Enhanced Net • Intersection lines • Mountain folds • Valley folds

33. My 2nd Attempt at Model Building The 3 folded-up components -- shown from two directions each.

34. Combining the Components • 2 parts merged

35. All 3 Parts Combined • Bottom face opened to show inside

36. Complete Colored Model • 6 colors for 6 different face directions • Views from diagonally opposite corners

37. The Net With Colored Visible Faces • Based on visibility, orientation

38. Build a Paper Model ! • The best way to understand Girl’s surface! • Description with my templates available in a UC Berkeley Tech Report:“Construction of a Cubist Girl Cap”by C. H. Séquin, EECS, UC Berkeley(July 2013)

39. Art - Connection Cubist Intersection Neighborhood “Heart of a Girl”

40. The Best Way to Understand Girl’s Surface! • Build a Paper Model ! • Description with templates available in a UC Berkeley Tech Report: EECS-2013-130“Construction of a Cubist Girl Cap”by C. H. Séquin, EECS, UC Berkeley(July 2013) http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-130.pdf Q U E S T I O N S ?

41. S P A R E

42. Transformation Seen in Domain Space