2d to 3d

[burgunder]

I was looking at the stripes on a barber shop light from the bus the other day, vaguely remembering how the red stripe has something archaic to do with surgery

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Stop it. You're going to make the world collapse.

[serpentmoon]

Actually, it sounds like you have an Escher barber pole in your head.

Re: Stop it. You're going to make the world collapse.

[burgunder]

O:>

[thepresident]

my friend tried to explain 4th dimensional euclidean geometry to me but my head asploded. :-(

[varn_ix]

If I understand this process correctly, you were wrapping an infinite band (finite nonzero width, infinite length) around an infinite cylinder, so that all of the cylinder's surface was covered? (Similar to how you would wrap a longsword hilt with a leather strip