Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Other beaded Mobius Strip

With some googling, I found that the beaded Mobius strip has been done in different ways before as shown in the following site:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Geek_chic_Moebius_strip_earrings/

Here is the mobius strip earrings Davisjan designed:



My design is very different in the sense that I have put an emphasis on the equilibrium shape of a beaded Mobius strip originating from the hard-sphere repulsion among three trivalent beads. That's why the shape of my design has such a close resemblance to the optimal shape obtained in van der Heijden's theory.

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