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Do you ever wake up and wonder "What if my job was to make saltwater taffy on a sphere via the Weierstrass ℘-function?"? e-infinity.space/taffy-sphere/

20/10/26, 4:51 pm4 reposts22 likes

ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙

@e-infinity.space

Based on one of my all-time favorite math papers, _The mathematics of taffy pullers_ by Jean-Luc Thiffeault. My visualization follows Thiffeault's receipe, using the Weierstrass ℘-function to realize the homeomorphism T²/ι≅S². arxiv.org/abs/1608.00152

arxiv.orgThe mathematics of taffy pullersWe describe a number of devices for pulling candy, called taffy pullers,that are related to pseudo-Anosov maps of punctured spheres. Though the mathematical connection has long been known for the two ...

spookyspctrlsqnce.bsky.social

@spookyspctrlsqnce.bsky.social

Could the method of taffy pulling in the video be described by the braid group on the three moving points?

ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙

@e-infinity.space

Yes, very much so. Here's an app that works more directly with that description: e-infinity.space/train-track-...

Paulo🐝

@mno.bsky.social

Very pretty...