Elegant Simplicity of Klein Design

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Möbius strip => A 2 Dimensional strip twisted 180° and joined at the ends. If you move along the surface, you return to your starting point on the "other side" — thus there's only one side.
Klein vase => An extension of the Möbius strip into a closed 3 Dimensional shape (or actually a 4D shape), which loops back into itself so that the inside and outside are the same surface and thus there is only one side.

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A vase, simple, elegant smooth symmetrical, with only one side, surface no inside nor outside, only in between a narrow neck extends up from the bulb twists back on itself to meld back into the vessel with no perceptible seam, join or mark at the intersection moving over its surface tracing, seemingly left and right, is not feasible the vase, no flower bears, it holds no air, no water, only nothingness no rim divides the in from out, no wall circles roundabout a trace becomes an endless loop circling back on itself with no start nor end, no curve, swerve or bend the design is for eyes-only to perceive for hands and touch get lost slip off and drift away in the vacuous hollowness of Klein design

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