Introduction

This lab will introduce you to the concept of building a parametric surface by starting with a curve in space and then attaching new curves to it in a certain way. The union of these attached curves forms a surface. This lab will also introduce you to the concept of orientable versus nonorientable surfaces.

You will need to invoke Maple for this lab.

Outline

Torus Knots
Building a Surface from Torus Knots
Building a Surface from One Knot

Next: Torus Knots

Robert E. Thurman<thurman@geom.umn.edu>

Original lab created by Frederick J. Wicklin

Document Created: Thu Feb 23 1995
Last modified: Mon Mar 10 12:55:00 1997