Discontinuity

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Project 7 Discontinuity 11/8/21 Austin Fletcher George Mason University Math 401 Mathematics Through 3D Printing This week we were instructed to make a print of some kind of saddle or discontinuity. Printing these mathematical concepts give us a good visual description of what a function that is discontinuous does as it approaches that discontinuity. As always, the professor provided us with some examples in the lectures and that is directly where I took my inspiration from. I originally was looking to print a variation of a monkey saddle. I was thinking that I could just increase the metric to create a saddle with more humps but ran into some troubles in mathematica where things just weren't working. Once I got frustrated enough, I changed my approach and used the example of what I actually printed. In order to make the print unique and not just a replica of what the professor did, I changed the coefficient of xy to 4.5 to rotate the shape and then I also took away the bars. This gave it a cool twist that I liked and turned it into one smooth shape that I found more appealing. Once all of this was created in mathematica, I ended up slicing it in cura and using the monoprice mini to print. I unfortunately do not recall how long this print took to be completed. It did require that I use regular supports and a brim on the bases.