Another Lego Cross-Cap


A completely different rendering of the cross-cap in 3 dimensional Euclidean space. This one is the image of the unit sphere about the origin under the map

(x,y,z) -> (yz,xz,xy)


Adam Coffman, who has a wonderful web page with pretty pictures and equations for Steiner surfaces , tells me that this is called Steiner's Roman Surface.
 


Just in case anyone's interested, here's the raw LDRAW .DAT file generated by my program.

Beware - the .DAT file builds it out of 1x1 bricks. Actually constructing this out of larger bricks so that it holds together is a (non-trivial) exercise for the reader! At the time of writing, this is easily the most difficult construction of all my Lego surfaces. In fact I had to cheat a bit and add some extra internal support for the nearly-horizontal bits near the middle of the model.

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