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Figure-8 Model of the Klein Bottle

This is an image of the Klein Bottle. It is generated by identifying the ends of a figure-8 cylinder with a twist (180 degrees), similar to the construction of a Möbius band. It contains one closed, continuous curve of self-intersection, whose image is a circle.


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