The Mobius Strip Page

Welcome to the Mobius strip page!  For those of you who don't know what a Mobius stip is, the instructions are simple. Take a long strip of paper and tape the ends together, but in a special way. Give the paper a half-twist before taping it so that you end up taping the back side of the paper to the front side. The result will look something like this:

Or if you're using bright colored, rainbow graph paper, it will look like this:

The Mobius Strip has some very special properties because of this. For example, because you taped the back side to the front side, the Mobius Stip is a one sided object. Also, because you taped the top edge to the bottom edge, it is a one-edged object. It starts looking really interesting when you try to straighten out the single edge into the shape of a circle (don't try this with an actual piece of paper!).

Here are 3 views of the Mobius Strip with it's edge stretched into a circle:

Here is an animation showing how this Mobius stip can be stretched back into a "normal" Mobius strip.

For those of you who like 3-d stuff, here is a 3-d picture of the Mobius Strip you can see with 3-d glasses.

And for more 3-d stuff, here is a stereoscopic animation of a similar "stretching" of the Mobius strip.

Here are 3 views of yet another Mobius Strip.