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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

Pretty cool stuff! Wonder if he could fit a camel through the eye of a needle?

Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :

I think I saw that on Mr. Wizard's World. It is a very cool trick. I hope he does one where he puts then whole world into a Klein Bottle [Wink]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I'd be interested in seeing the diagram for how one would slice that without folding (say, with an X-acto knife). It would help me translate the one-dimensional cuts to the three-dimensional world.

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

Well I just found a way to make some cheap money, "Hey buddy, $50 says I can crawl through a hole in this card!"

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

Its equivalent to making two series of zig-zag cuts across both halves of the card. When you're doing the last cutting step you're cutting the parts that would be holding the middle together.

Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :

Very cool! I want to see more!