The following images are stills taken from The Optiverse, a video by John Sullivan, George Francis, and Stuart Levy, about the minimax sphere eversion.
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Composite of the 2-fold minimax eversion
Clockwise from upper left, we see stages in the eversion.
Images on the right show the creation of triple points
(top pair) and passage through the quadruple point at
the halfway stage (bottom pair). The large middle image
shows the halfway model from the other end, where there
is a point of double tangency.
Composite of the 3-fold minimax eversion
Clockwise from upper left, we see stages in the eversion.
We can see how three fingers grow into each other.
The two views at the bottom with gaps between the triangles
show the halfway model (Boy's surface) and the way it breaks
apart into its double cover. The large middle image is
close to the halfway stage.