fun with refraction

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  1. Damn, that is beautiful.

    I also (especially) like the “mapping of the red spiral onto a sphere.”

    I am constantly on the lookout for images such as these as part of my quest to create a visual introduction to mathematical thinking that might appeal to infants and toddlers.

    I am not sure such a programme would be effective, but it seems worth a shot (on the analogy that infants/toddlers easily pick up implicit thought structures (grammar) on exposure to language.

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