For two centuries the only complete embedded minimal surfaces of finite topology were the plane, the catenoid and the helicoid — then in 1982 a Brazilian graduate student found another, and its picture changed the field; the Weierstrass data is evaluated, not faked.
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Reacts to and looks like: gpu, webgl2 and audio-reactive.
Family: Visualiser.
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