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A Mobius strip is a two dimensional object with only one surface and one edge. It can be created by taking a strip of paper and twisting it one 180 degrees before attaching both ends together.
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A Mobius strip is a two dimensional object with only one surface and one edge. It can be created by taking a strip of paper and twisting it 180 degrees before attaching both ends together.
  
 
In the comic, the idea of the Mobius strip has been used to create a comic strip that could potentially loop forever. In it, a man is standing in front of a ball. Then another man runs in and kicks the first man out of the panel. The second man then turns away, retaining the first man's original position, only flipped horizontally. Because of the nature of the Mobius strip, if the comic strip were to be printed out in such a way that the comic could be seen on both sides of the paper, the comic would repeat, so that the second man would become the first man, and someone else would push them out of the comic becoming himself the first man.
 
In the comic, the idea of the Mobius strip has been used to create a comic strip that could potentially loop forever. In it, a man is standing in front of a ball. Then another man runs in and kicks the first man out of the panel. The second man then turns away, retaining the first man's original position, only flipped horizontally. Because of the nature of the Mobius strip, if the comic strip were to be printed out in such a way that the comic could be seen on both sides of the paper, the comic would repeat, so that the second man would become the first man, and someone else would push them out of the comic becoming himself the first man.

Revision as of 12:41, 12 April 2013

Mobius Battle
Films need to do this more, if only to piss off the people who have to feed it into the projector.
Title text: Films need to do this more, if only to piss off the people who have to feed it into the projector.

Explanation

A Mobius strip is a two dimensional object with only one surface and one edge. It can be created by taking a strip of paper and twisting it 180 degrees before attaching both ends together.

In the comic, the idea of the Mobius strip has been used to create a comic strip that could potentially loop forever. In it, a man is standing in front of a ball. Then another man runs in and kicks the first man out of the panel. The second man then turns away, retaining the first man's original position, only flipped horizontally. Because of the nature of the Mobius strip, if the comic strip were to be printed out in such a way that the comic could be seen on both sides of the paper, the comic would repeat, so that the second man would become the first man, and someone else would push them out of the comic becoming himself the first man.

Transcript

[A man is standing next to a ball, a flash appears on the left side of the panel]
[Another man comes in from the left, preparing to kick the ball]
[The other man kicks the ball into the first man's head]
[The first man is lying outside of the frame, second man points and laughs.]
Second man: HAHAHAH
First man: !#^*!*
[Second man is now standing next to the ball.]

Right side:

The strip above is looped around like a film strip, but a one-half-turn is put into the loop to make it a Mobius strip.


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Discussion

The gif should alternate left/right in order to properly portray the battle. 184.66.160.91 06:48, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Look again, it does already! --83.243.48.2 08:20, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Technically, there's only one guy. He passes through the comic twice for every one time the ball passes through. 199.27.128.167 20:37, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

The explanation says "[the projectionist] would have no way to feed a Mobius strip film reel properly into a normal projector." That depends on how you define "normal". I just tried this on my grandfather's 16mm cine (film) and it worked fine. I cut ~300 frames from the start of a movie, twisted 180°, and spliced. Since my projector loads from the side it went in no problem and I used empty takeup reels to hold the loops. This wouldn't work on 8mm, though, cause the holes are only on one side. Can't speak to 35mm or IMAX film; I suspect not, because they have soundtracks, but I don't know for sure. Oh, I just thought of something to try with my 16mm loop; if I cut it in half lengthwise I should have a 600 half-frame 8mm loop, right? I'm not gonna try 'cause I don't have any way to cut down the middle in an exact enough way but that would be cool to try. Oh, and isn't it spelt Möbius? 173.245.54.213 03:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC)