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# Goodness.
I want to see it from the side (if it has a side).
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 21:02, archived)
# I'll have a look
It's a bit hard to explain what's going on, I sort of understand it.

Here's a low-cylindery version from the other side, I think it's the same but half out of phase.


If you look at it perfectly side on, it barely moves.

edit: like so
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 21:09, archived)
# Erm
Right. What an odd shape.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 21:36, archived)
# It's a toroidal spiral
the wobbly bit is the x coordinate of each point being shifted around a sine wave.
gaz me if you want the codez
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 21:44, archived)
# I guess you're looking down the X-axis in the version that stays mostly still, then.
(And nearly along the X-axis in the others, but a bit off.)
Wobbling the curly doughnut, eh.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 21:49, archived)