I've been studying topology lately and my teacher showed us some animations which were very very pretty. I'm interested in a freeware (possibly open-source) software that can deal with surfaces, I'm especially interested in polygons with identifications. By which I mean that I'd love to have a software that would render the surface given by a certain identification of edges of a polygon, but I wasn't able to find one, I'd appreciate anything that could get me started.
[Math] Topology software
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This is only indirectly related to what you asked for, but Jeff Weeks has some interesting topology / geometry software over at GeometryGames.org. You haven't played billiards until you've tried playing it on a hyperbolic surface...