String Theory - Moebius Trip - I am Diva Challenge #55

Last week the tangle challenge for the week was to use the color purple and also bring a bit of awareness to

Moebius Syndrome - a congenital nerve disorder which affects the Diva's son.

This week we are delving a bit deeper into all things Moebius. The Moebius foundation uses for it's logo the The Moebius Strip which is a fascinating mathematical phenomenon.

The properties of a Moebius strip are:

The Möbius strip has several curious properties. A line drawn starting from the seam down the middle will meet back at the seam but at the "other side". If continued the line will meet the starting point and will be double the length of the original strip. This single continuous curve demonstrates that the Möbius strip has only one boundary.

Cutting a Möbius strip along the center line yields one long strip with two full twists in it, rather than two separate strips; the result is not a Möbius strip. This happens because the original strip only has one edge that is twice as long as the original strip. Cutting creates a second independent edge, half of which was on each side of the scissors. Cutting this new, longer, strip down the middle creates two strips wound around each other, each with two full twists.

 

It is this strip that becomes our "string" for this week's challenge. So here's how it began.

 

... and here is what it became:

 

This week I decided to draw as usual with traditional pen and shade with pencil, however the color was added in Photoshop. Mainly because everytime I color a piece that I've worked on I wish I could change the color and it's too late. Photoshop allows a little more freedom to play with color and see what works and more importantly what doesn't!

Comments

[Trillian]

Love your Moebius Trip interpretation.

[Deborah]

Beautiful!

[Sue]

Ohhhh, lovely!!!

[ledenzer]

I am in love with your response! There is just something wonderful about that background!