Mobius Strip

A Mobius strip is a surface with only one surface with only one boundary component. It has the mathematical property of being non-orientable.

Completed. MDF Layers. About 250mm Diameter. Any inaccuracies in the shape is down to my filing. This was produced using a laser cutter, obviously a 5-axis CNC would have been much useful, but i don’t have access to one. Still undecided wether i will varnish it.

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Comment by djordje on August 17, 2012 at 3:56pm: Great work Nick!!!
I need to get one of these, in a smaller scale, and throw it from hand to hand, just for fun :)

Comment by Bogdan Obradovic on February 13, 2012 at 7:35pm: final looks great, in a way better than wood because of the "cracks"

Comment by Nick Tyrer on September 9, 2011 at 4:58am: Yes pretty much Mehmet. I modelled it as a solid then sectioned it through about 50 intersections. Then they were all layed out for lasercutting

Comment by Mehmet Ali on September 1, 2011 at 9:28pm: Did you use parallel sections to achieve this or any other way? Nice work..

Comment by Nick Tyrer on July 1, 2011 at 10:49am: Yes its 3mm mdf, and was cut on a lasercutter. I designed it to be produced thicker than i wanted it so i could file/sand away all the layers.

This is a photo of how it started, pre-filing:

Comment by Elam Reins on June 30, 2011 at 10:53am: Is that wood? How the hell did you laser cut wood? sanded afterwards?

Comment by MARIO VERGARA on June 28, 2011 at 5:28am: fantastic!

Comment by Rémy Maurcot on June 23, 2011 at 2:52pm: Mega cool...

Comment by Nick Tyrer on June 23, 2011 at 5:57am: Thanks, i thought the layers gave it a kind of artificial grain, that the mdf was lacking. I would like to try to make it laminated ply, because that would be cool. Just more expensive.