Mobius strip
One-sided surface
A Möbius strip is a surface with only one side and one edge, formed by twisting a rectangular strip 180 degrees and joining the ends.
If you trace a line along its surface, you return to your starting point having covered both "sides" without lifting your finger.
The shape appears in mathematics, art, and as a symbol of infinity or cyclical continuity: The recycling logo is based on a Möbius strip.
- M.C. EscherDutch impossible-geometry artist
- EscherDutch impossible-geometry artist
- loopCurve closing on itself
- infiniteHaving no bounds
- twistRotating motion or surprise
endless loop · ouroboros · one-sided · topology · belt · projective plane · paradox · surface · continuous · single-sided · unending · dimension · geometry · infinity symbol · mathematics · abstract · chiral · symmetry
- Topological Surfacesprojective plane
- shapescircle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval
- surfacessurface, sphere, cone, torus, plane
- Self-referenceself-reference, self-referential, recursion, recursive, meta
- topologymanifolds, compactness, neighborhoods, torus, connectedness
- manifoldssphere, torus, projective plane, surface