A Woven Klein Quartic
Chaim Goodman-Strauss

Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 561–566
Workshop Papers

Abstract

We describe a new method of weaving a model of the Klein quartic, a highly symmetric, but abstract genus-3 surface akin to a platonic polyhedron, with negatively-curved geometry, based on a tiling found by G. Westendorp [10]. The Klein quartic cannot be realized in its fully symmetric form in three-dimensional space, but this model exhibits the most rigid symmetry that is possible. With remarkably little time and material you can have a Klein quartic model of your own!

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