A Moebius Ballet

I learned about it from Science News Online (here), but evidently it has been on its way to becoming a mini-phenomenon since it was posted on YouTube in June, 2007.

It's a short animation of some mathematical concepts, called "Moebius Transformations Revealed". To quote from the creators' website (here):

Möbius Transformations Revealed is a short video by Douglas Arnold and Jonathan Rogness which depicts the beauty of Möbius transformations and shows how moving to a higher dimension reveals their essential unity.

It does do what it claims it does, although it doesn't go so far as to suggest what we learn from understanding their essential unity, nor what we might do with our new understanding. Perhaps I'll have that "aha!" later on.

Nevertheless, it's a very pretty little film (2:32 long), and the music (Robert Schumann, a movement from Kinderscenen, for piano) seems unusually well suited.

But it's better that you just have a look rather than listen to me talk about it.

Posted on November 30, 2007 at 19.58 by jns · Permalink
In: All, It's Only Rocket Science

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Monday, 3 December 2007 at 00.58
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    I doubt I appreciate the mathematical underpinnings well enough, but it is an interesting visual piece. And you're right, the music fits very well.

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