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Does the torus one apply to a wrap-around 2D map then? So if the edges don't wrap, the max amount of colors needed is 4, but if the edges do wrap, you could mak
by Aardwolf 2y ago
Does the torus one apply to a wrap-around 2D map then? So if the edges don't wrap, the max amount of colors needed is 4, but if the edges do wrap, you could make a map requiring 7 colors?
EDIT: yep looks like it, the leftmost picture under 'snapshots' here is a 2D map of what's on the torus and looking at e.g. the blue band, it touches all 6 others (just barely the cyan and yellow ones with a few pixels of its tips when wrapping between top/bottom): https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SevenColoringOfATorus/ https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SevenColoringOfATorus/