A Klein Bottle is a mathematically brain-melting object with no in or out and no front or back, and thanks to Wizard Gynoid, one of them was made to float in Second Life. Watch this machinima to see what I mean:
Love the music by modern master Moby and metaverse artist Miso Susanowa, and it's a credit to both I can't tell when the Moby music ends and the Miso music begins. (Or vice versa.) Via Second Life's Subreddit.
This isn't the first Klein bottle to rise from SL, as I suggested: At least one more was created in 2008 by AM Radio and Miki Gymnast.
Via Ms. Gynoid in Comments: Click here for a direct teleport SLurl to the Klein bottle.
The first Klein Bottles were made by Grandmaster Seifert Surface (Henry Segerman in RL) in 2005. He was the inventor of surface rezzers in SL, i think he is not active in SL actually, but his works are still the most innovative math examples inworld.
Posted by: Miki Gymnast | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 01:02 PM
Seifert Surface has been to see my Klein bottle, and I have been to his on his old xyz sim. Zonja Capalini built a wireframe Klein Bottle on her Condensation Open Sim. I take it a bit further and provide a skin over the wireframe. I also make it a lot larger. I'm still working on animating the mobius ants. This Klein Bottle can be visited here:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/CLIVE/30/66/3997
Posted by: Wizard Gynoid | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 02:52 PM
Oroboros, anyone?
Posted by: Joey1058 | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 04:49 PM
@Wizard Yes, thanks for the reminder re the Klein bottle at the Open Sim CondensationLand grid.
FYI for others:
ABout the bottle(and its single 2000 prim linkset):
http://zonjacapalini.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/2889-working-with-very-large-linksets-in-opensim/
available is full info and source scripts to build a bottle.
You're welcome.
Posted by: Breen Whitman | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 10:09 PM
Awesome work Wizard! Imagine if SL could generate and rez a mesh from a mathematically created struct.
And yay for mobygratis.com too!
Posted by: Ann Otoole InSL | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 02:15 AM
Never ever enough Klein bottles! I miss Seifert Surface and Miki Gymnast's (hey Miki) and there spectacular work.
Seifert Surface (Henry Segerman in RL) is busy making 3d prints of his mathematical sculpture these days. You can see it - and buy it - here: http://www.shapeways.com/shops/henryseg
Posted by: Bettina Tizzy | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 11:42 AM
P.S. Seifert's Klein bottle in real life: http://www.shapeways.com/model/325755/round_klein_bottle__large_.html?gid=sg1260 - Own it :)
Posted by: Bettina Tizzy | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 11:44 AM