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2.2.3 Surfaces with boundary Examples of surfaces with boundary are a cylinder and a Möbius band. Other examples are the following:
Surfaces with holes
We can obtain a surface with boundary by taking any surface without boundary and punching some holes in it by removing open discs. For example, Figure 19 shows a sphere with 3 holes. The boun
2.2.2 Hollow tubing surfaces In their doughnut-shaped representation, toruses can be thought of as being hollow tubes. Many other surfaces in space can also be drawn as if they were made of hollow tubing. Figure 15 shows two such examples. 2.2.1 Surfaces without boundary Examples of surfaces without boundary are a sphere and a torus. Other examples are the following: n-fold toruses
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