Revisions to Optic fibers after Joseph O'Rourke

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Suppose that the normal frame along $\gamma$ twists. Are you sure it still constitutes an optic fiber? I am imagining, for example, smoothly twisting an ellipse of nonzero eccentricity.
Twisted ellipse http://people.csail.mit.edu/%7Eorourke/MathOverflow/TwistedTube.jpg

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edited Dec 22, 2011 at 1:10

Suppose that the normal frame along $\gamma$ twists. Are you sure it still constitutes an optic fiber? I am imagining, for example, smoothly twisting an ellipse of nonzero eccentricity.
Twisted ellipse http://cs.smith.edu/%7Eorourke/MathOverflow/TwistedTube.jpg Twisted ellipse http://people.csail.mit.edu/%7Eorourke/MathOverflow/TwistedTube.jpg

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created Oct 8, 2011 at 14:26

Suppose that the normal frame along $\gamma$ twists. Are you sure it still constitutes an optic fiber? I am imagining, for example, smoothly twisting an ellipse of nonzero eccentricity.
Twisted ellipse http://cs.smith.edu/%7Eorourke/MathOverflow/TwistedTube.jpg

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