RecordNumber
3800
Author
Matsumoto, Elisabetta A.
Crop_Body
Elisabetta A. Matsumoto
Title of Article
Quilting the Klein Quartic
Title Of Journal
Bridges
Publication Year
2017
Abstract
The Klein Quartic curve contains the maximal number of symmetries a genus 3 surface can have: 84(g 1) = 168.
We create a fabric model of 24 regular heptagons that not only captures the platonic nature of the Klein Quartic, but
it is flexible enough to be everted through any of its holes, thus illustrating 24 of the 168 symmetries, whilst rigid
models can only display 12.