The Grid-Cube Two-Piece Property


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1. Introduction
2. GTPP: Curves in the Plane
3. Ordinary TPP
4. CTPP
5. Grid Cubes
6. GTPP: Embedded Curves
7. Closed Sets in R2
8. Other Surfaces
9. Demos
10. Definitions
11. References

GTPP: 2-Manifolds-With-Boundary and Other Surfaces

It may appear at first that the only surfaces in R3 with the GTPP are the grid-cubes themselves, just as in two dimensions the grid-squares are the only closed curves with the GTPP. However it is not too difficult to find an exception: consider a solid 3x3x1 grid-rectangular-prism, with the middle 1x1x1 cube removed. The boundary of this set is a torus with the GTPP (in fact, the solid figure itself also has the GTPP). A demo of this figure can be found here (Surfaces in 3 space). This demo also shows a 3x3x3 cube with three overlapping 1x1x3 rectangular prisms removed. This removal of rectangular prisms can be repeated recursively with each of the 20 1x1x1 cubes remaining, still leaving a surface with the GTPP.



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