I want to learn about topology. Can you make the visualization make sense

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Welcome to topology! Topology is the study of properties that remain unchanged when we continuously deform shapes. Think of it as rubber sheet geometry. We can stretch, bend, and twist our shapes, but we cannot tear them or glue different parts together. For example, a sphere can be continuously deformed into an ellipsoid because both have the same fundamental structure - no holes. Two shapes are topologically equivalent if one can be continuously deformed into the other without tearing or gluing. The classic example is a donut and a coffee cup. Both have exactly one hole - the donut's central hole and the cup's handle hole. You can imagine stretching the donut's hole to form the handle while squashing the rest into the cup shape. This is why mathematicians say a topologist can't tell the difference between a donut and a coffee cup! The genus is a fundamental topological invariant that counts the number of holes in a surface. A sphere has genus zero because it has no holes. A torus has genus one with its single hole. A double torus, which looks like two donuts connected together, has genus two. The genus is preserved under continuous deformations, so any surface that can be continuously deformed into a sphere also has genus zero, and so on. The Möbius strip is one of topology's most famous examples of a non-orientable surface. Unlike a normal strip of paper that has two sides, the Möbius strip has only one surface and one edge. If you imagine walking along the surface, you would return to your starting point but upside down! This property makes it impossible to consistently define 'inside' and 'outside' on a Möbius strip, which is why we call it non-orientable. You can easily make one by taking a strip of paper, giving it a half-twist, and joining the ends together. Topology has incredible real-world applications across many fields. In biology, it helps us understand DNA structure and protein folding. Computer scientists use topology for network analysis and data visualization. In computer graphics, topological concepts are essential for 3D modeling and animation. Physicists apply topology to study quantum states and phase transitions. Even in geography, topology helps solve problems like map coloring and route optimization. By studying the fundamental properties that remain unchanged under deformation, topology reveals the hidden mathematical structure underlying our physical world.