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Title: Has this animation been attempted?
Post by: Amiduffer on August 17, 2006, 06:34:24 AM

I just made a Mobius strip with my copy of Imagine3D and had the idea of producing an animation of the MC Escher drawing Mobius Strip 2 (with the ants). Before I put the effort into it, has anyone seen anything like that on the net?

Title: Re: Has this animation been attempted?
Post by: benJamin on August 17, 2006, 07:32:26 AM

One of the XWindows screensavers for GL does this.  The ant object is used for a few other things; the strip is two 'parallel' white bars with a red mesh structure joining them.  The ants crawl around it in both directions.  It's cute, but could be done better.

benJamin
"Life is like a computer: it drains energy."

Title: Re: Has this animation been attempted?
Post by: 3246251196 on August 17, 2006, 11:56:44 AM

You have been reading into Hyperspace :P

Mobius Strips are brilliant things.

Title: Re: Has this animation been attempted?
Post by: Amiduffer on August 17, 2006, 05:48:26 PM

Interesting! But, wouldn't it look better if the 'ants' were made out of boing balls and the strip had a red and white checkerboard pattern.  :lol:

Title: Re: Has this animation been attempted?
Post by: benJamin on August 18, 2006, 11:06:29 AM

Yes, I would have to agree, that would definitely be cooler!

Title: Re: Has this animation been attempted?
Post by: weirdami on July 13, 2008, 07:23:03 AM

Next, tackle, Esher's Klein's Bottle.  :-P

Title: Re: Has this animation been attempted?
Post by: JaXanim on July 13, 2008, 11:21:32 PM

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weirdami wrote:
Next, tackle, Esher's Klein's Bottle.  :-P

The Klein Bottle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle) is a four dimensional object, though you could construct a 3D interpretation of one using Imagine. I think it would be a tough challenge. Even constructing the Moebius strip must have made him think a lot. I sure look forward to the anim if it materialises.

Escher's Ants animation:  Here's one someone made earlier. (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/EscherForReal/)

Title: Re: Has this animation been attempted?
Post by: Amiduffer on July 13, 2008, 11:42:44 PM

The Linux machine in the office has a screen saver with that Mobius strip and ants walking over it.

The project is on the back burner for now, but, in the future, plan on finishing it.

Title: Re: Has this animation been attempted?
Post by: weirdami on July 14, 2008, 02:36:26 AM

@JaXanim

Oh, yeah, well.. well, then tessaract on you!  :-P