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Morph Sphere to Disc
By removing a single point from the sphere (here, the south pole), we can smoothly deform the sphere into a disc. The transformation shown here preserves the distance from any point on the sphere to the north pole.
Contributed by:
Aaron Becker
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The sphere and disc shown here are parameterized by
and
. The sphere coordinates are given by
, while the disc coordinates are
.
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Sphere Eversion
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Aaron Becker
"
Morph Sphere to Disc
"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/MorphSphereToDisc/
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Published: February 21, 2012
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