Lamination (topology)

In topology, a branch of mathematics, a lamination is a :

  • "topological space partitioned into subsets"[1]
  • decoration (a structure or property at a point) of a manifold in which some subset of the manifold is partitioned into sheets of some lower dimension, and the sheets are locally parallel.
Lamination associated with Mandelbrot set
Lamination of rabbit Julia set

A lamination of a surface is a partition of a closed subset of the surface into smooth curves.

It may or may not be possible to fill the gaps in a lamination to make a foliation.[2]

Examples

Geodesic lamination of a closed surface
gollark: Kantian ethics is the system Kant came up with, which I don't know that much about.
gollark: Deontological systems have rules like "do not kill people", and many deontologists would *not* divert the trolley because they feel like they're killing people one way and not the other.
gollark: Deontology in action!
gollark: And what you should do is the moral thing, yes.
gollark: Anyway! "Consequentialism" basically says "do whatever produces the best eventual outcome (by some metric)", so a consequentialist would probably say "well, 1 people dying is better than 5, so divert the trolley".

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