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The Möbius band is the most well-known nonorientable surface. However, it is not as well-known that it has a nonsingular polyhedral embedding in Euclidean space with a triangular boundary. This embedding consists of six of the equilateral triangular faces from an octahedron and three interior right triangular pieces, one twice the size of the other two. We show how to continuously deform the boundary triangle in the Möbius band into a central loop, covering it twice. The snapshots show the starting position, an intermediate position, and nearly the final position, with the curve about to go over itself.

Reference

[1] B. Tuckerman, "A Non-Singular Polyhedral Möbius Band Whose Boundary Is a Triangle," The American Mathematical Monthly, 55(5), 1948 pp. 309–311. www.jstor.org/stable/2305482.