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by semi-extrinsic 2806 days ago
So imagine you have three fluids that don't mix which are colored red, green, blue. You can make drops of these fluids on a piece of paper, and manipulate their shapes e.g. with a pipette.

This article is saying that mathematically, it's possible to make three single, continuous but weirdly shaped drops of these fluids, that together fill a square, in a way such that if you consider the three drop outlines as seen from above (e.g. by a camera), they all have the same outline.

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Well, they all have the same boundary points. A boundary point is a limit of a point sequence lying inside the shape. But if we define a different concept of "outline point" as a limit of a path lying inside the shape, then I think the three shapes won't have the same outline.
The construction shown on the page makes me think of this as if the three fluids are infinitely mixed, if that makes any sense.