{"id":21752,"date":"2015-08-10T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=21752"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:18:46","slug":"a-3d-printed-topology-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/a-3d-printed-topology-joke","title":{"rendered":"A 3D Printed Topology Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mathematical artist and community member Henry Segerman<\/a> has found a creative way to combine 3D printing and a topology joke. The joke goes\u00a0about topologists is that they can’t tell the difference between a coffee mug and a doughnut. For those who are not familiar with topology, topology is the study of geometrical objects where you don’t care about lengths and you don’t care about angles, what matters is how the spatial relations relate to each other.<\/p>\n

This series of 3D prints is a joint collaboration between Segerman and Keenan Crane<\/a>. To a topologist, as the old joke goes, a coffee mug is the same thing as a donut since one can be deformed into the other.<\/p>\n

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(Topology Joke printed in white strong & plastic)<\/p>\n

Video of Henry Segerman explaining Topology Joke printed in our Porcelain Pilot Material<\/a>.<\/p>\n