[Jewelry making - Article 00782] - Re: [Orchid] Moibus-textured and plain

[Janet Yang]

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>         Color the right half of the first side "long-ways"     now you
>     have 1/2in x 6in white on the left, and 1/2in x 6in colored on the
>     right 

    Terri, I couldn't get this to work as written. If you color the right
    half of the strip, it will be 1x6 colored on the right, not 1/2x6" . 

>     I suspect that this is the method that someone referred to a
>     couple of days ago 

    That was either Noel or I, although neither of us used your
    approach. 

    What I described made use of square wire, which would allow the eye
    mistake the edge of the Mabius figure for the face. Just an optical
    illusion, and an imperfect one at that, because you would readily
    see that the textured side is *adjacent* to the plain. What Jim
    wants is the textured side *opposite* the plain, which Noel
    correctly states is impossible. 

    Another problem with using square wiRe: It simply wouldn't resemble
    a Mabius figure. The further away you get from using a strip of
    metal, the more it resembles an ordinary bangle bracelet. It still
    would look nice, but the mathematicians wouldn't get it. If you take
    it even further and use round wire for the Mabius figure, it's just
    a textured band spiralling around the wire, a la candy cane. 

Janet


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