A team of mathematicians and computer scientists led by Dr. Vincent Borrelli of the Université Lyon I in France has succeeded for the first time in constructing and visually representing an image of a flat torus in three-dimensional space. Isometric embedding of a square flat torus in 3D space, seen from the outside (Vincent Borrelli et al) This is a smooth fractal, halfway between fractals and ordinary surfaces. The findings are published in the...
