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Illuminating hyperbolic geometry

Henry Segerman 238,233 9 years ago
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Joint work with Saul Schleimer. In this short video we show how various models of hyperbolic geometry can be obtained from the hemisphere model via stereographic and orthogonal projection. 2D figure credits: 4:09 Cannon, Floyd, Kenyon, Parry. 0:49, 1:20, 1:31, 2:12, Roice Nelson. We thank Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, for its hospitality during filming. (2,3,7) triangle tiling: http://shpws.me/Dq6q Geodesic saddle ({3,7} radius 3, subdivided 4): http://shpws.me/ES7b Pseudosphere: http://shpws.me/GIgq (2,3,5) triangle tiling (stereographic projection): http://shpws.me/CKVv Thanks to M.Y. Zhang for writing CC subtitles for this video.

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