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I recently became aware of the following video from 50 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSk8XkPALus

Does anyone know what happened to the amazing chickenwire models of the sphere eversion shown in that video?
If they still exist, they should totally be displayed somewhere.

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  • $\begingroup$ Not an answer to your question, but another high-quality video on this topic: youtube.com/watch?v=Zv-XNlE1s8E $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 5 at 0:19
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    $\begingroup$ From Wikipedia: "Charles Pugh's chicken-wire models (subsequently stolen from the Mathematics Department at Berkeley)". But no citation to the theft is given. $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 5 at 3:48
  • $\begingroup$ just to mention it: the chicken wire model is actually a Fullerene graph and must contain 12 pentagons; the rectangular grid computer animation shows a socalled cubed sphere. would be interesting to have the mathematical model of the physicsal chicken wire model $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 5 at 6:13
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    $\begingroup$ I believe the chicken-wire models were based on Bernard Morin's sphere eversion. They were stolen sometime during a summer weekend in the late 1970s. $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 5 at 10:49
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    $\begingroup$ @DanielAsimov I believe that your comment answers my question. If you would mind making that into an answer, I will accept it. $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 6 at 16:28

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