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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Flythrough
These images are from the flythrough scene, showing interior views
of the 2-fold eversion around the time the triple points appear.
The "ear"
At the halfway stage in the 2-fold eversion, five isthmus or
reconnection events happen at once, where double-tangent points
break apart one way or the other. One of these is along
the symmetry axis, opposite the quadruple point. The other four
are in the "ears" of the Morin surface, two of which open
as the other two close. These closeups show one ear closing.