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Re: Plotting a curve on a flat torus

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg106502] Re: Plotting a curve on a flat torus
• From: LordBeotian <pokipsy76 at yahoo.it>
• Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:15:39 -0500 (EST)
• References: <hik91b$6nn$1@smc.vnet.net> <himskq$j6l$1@smc.vnet.net>

On 14 Gen, 11:45, dh <d... at metrohm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> you want to draw a curve on a rectangle, identifying opposite sides?

Yes, exactly.

> Well you can do this e.g. using Mod and ParametricPlot. Here is an
>
> example where we use the unit square {{0,0},{0,1},{1,1},{1,0}} and the
>
> square function:
>
> ParametricPlot[{Mod[t, 1], Mod[t^2, 1]}, {t, 0, 4}]

Well my problem here is to avoid that the points are joined by
segments which do not belong to the curve. Your parametric plot still
have this problem unsolved.