nonmanifold
List of: Glossary Items
Subjects: Model Geometry, Model Topology
Contents: Glossary

Nonmanifold geometry is not physically realizable. For example, Klein bottles, two cubes that precisely share an edge, and a sphere whose surface precisely intersects the vertex of a cone are not physically realizable, and hence are nonmanifold.
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