On Maps, Machines and Roaches

Dror Bar-Natan, Compugen, November 2000

Based on an M.Sc. thesis by Dori Eldar

Abstract:

We try to map the configuration space of a simple machine, a six-legged idealized roach, and find that good old cut-and-paste topology can be a lot of fun.

See http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/Talks/Machines
and http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/People/Eldar/thesis/