March 4, 2014

Hello everyone, Yesterday’s objects for The Wilburt Company printed perfectly.  Please stop-by A-120 if you would like to see them.  These objects were designed in the Creo CAD program and meant to be produced on an expensive CNC metal machine.  Printing a prototype part on that machine could cost up to $200, but on a 3D printer it cost about 50 cents! Today’s object is a Klein bottle, an example of a non-orientable surface; informally, it is a surface (a two-dimensional manifold) in which notions of left and right cannot be consistently defined.  A Klein bottle has no boundary (for comparison, a sphere is anRead More →