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MathLapse - Surfaces of Constant Width

MathLapse Festival 2016 Winner. Parallel planes, which touch a surface of constant width from opposite sides, have always the same distance - a generalized diameter. The movie starts with curves of constant width, rotates them between parallel lines and deforms them, keeping constant width.
For surfaces this is repeated in anaglyph stereo: A sphere is deformed into a surface of constant width with rotational symmetry. This surface tumbles in a cube, touching all faces. Three more deformations to less symmetric surfaces and their tumbling follow.

Maps of the Earth

Maps of the Earth allow us to imagine our planet, to navigate it, to display information…, but these maps give us a distorted vision of reality. How can we understand what we see on these drawings?

conform!

The story of how Mercator’s world map of 1569 had important consequences for mathematics.