April 18, 2006

• Look at this!

  Guess what, it's another thing that I made.

  This is what I've been planning since before the holidays started. It didn't take me too long to come up with this idea. The idea of making a necklace / bracelet that looks like a Möbius strip originally came from the time when I brought my DNA bracelet to maths class and the teacher thought it looked like a Möbius strip when I asked her if it reminds her of anything. Well, this one is really intended to look like a Möbius strip.

  See, if you wear it as a bracelet, it looks like a Möbius strip. It says "PLEASE TURN OVER", but of course, you can't turn it over because Möbius strips are one-sided. It's a bit too long, so the letters don't always stay in place, but there is a reason why it's done like this.

  This can also be worn as a necklace. When you cut a Möbius strip (which has one half-twist) along the middle, you get a longer and thinner strip with two half-twists. This, when worn as a necklace, is the strip with two half-twists. I think this looks more special when worn as a bracelet because that way you can actually see that it's supposed to look like a Möbius strip. The idea that this can be worn either as a bracelet or a necklace is good as an idea, but I'll have to say that it doesn't work very well.

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