A Threefold Möbius Band with Constant Twist and Minimal Bending as the Limit of Tetrahedral Rings
Proceedings of Bridges 2018: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 487–490
Short Papers
Abstract
We present a previously undiscovered threefold Möbius band which is the unique surface arising from the limit of a sequence of tetrahedral rings, all connected with a minimal, uniformly distributed twist angle. The band is optimal in the sense that its bending is minimized and its midline has the smallest possible total curvature for a closed curve of given fixed nonzero torsion.