Two nice bridges seeming twisted
In Bolzano, in front of the Museion, the two beautiful bridges over the river Isarco (one for pedestrians and one for bycicles) have a strange shape:
they give us the impressione to be "twisted" and this originates in mathematical fact: the centre line of these bridges is not a plane curve.
This example has been used in
one of the ten signposts of the MIC project "Maths in the city".
You can see the two bridges from a different point of view.
© matematita
foto di Ester Dalvit
The image belongs to the sections...:
The spots shown in the maths signposts (Exhibitions with matematita)
Bridges (Anthology of images)
Lines and curves in 3d-space (3D geometry)
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