The main results of A. Zorich and I. Dynnikov regarding plane sections of periodic surfaces are extended to the piecewise linear case. As an application, the stereographic map of a truncated octahedron, extended to all of {\small $\Rt$} by periodicity, is analyzed numerically.
@article{1150476908,
author = {De Leo, Roberto},
title = {Topology of Plane Sections of Periodic Polyhedra with an Application to the Truncated Octahedron},
journal = {Experiment. Math.},
volume = {15},
number = {1},
year = {2006},
pages = { 109-124},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1150476908}
}
De Leo, Roberto. Topology of Plane Sections of Periodic Polyhedra with an Application to the Truncated Octahedron. Experiment. Math., Tome 15 (2006) no. 1, pp. 109-124. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1150476908/