Re: Plotting a curve on a flat torus
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- Subject: [mg106471] Re: Plotting a curve on a flat torus
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:45:52 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
you want to draw a curve on a rectangle, identifying opposite sides?
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}]
Daniel
LordBeotian wrote:
> I want to plot a curve on a flat torus (i.e. the square with
> identified opposite edges) so i would like mathematica to join the
> points of the curve in a way that respect the torus topology. Is there
> a not too difficult way to do this with Mathematica? Or at least is
> there an easy way to have the points joined only when their distance
> on the square is small enought?
>