Catalan Minimal Surface

Controls: Move mouse with left button or A key pressed to rotate. Move mouse with middle button or S key pressed to zoom. This applet first shows a catenoid, a minimal surface bounded by two circles. Moving the slider deform. param. allows to deform isometrically the Catalan surface into its conjugate minimal surface, through a whole family of associated minimal surfaces. If the box Show periodicity is unchecked, only a fundamental piece of the surface is shown. The checkboxes Show mesh and Show smooth surface are self-explanatory: by default, both are checked. The button Change background cyclically changes the background among a few choices. The default background is flat, but less demanding in terms of graphics resources...

Webgl applet built with the library three.js (released under the MIT license). This applet is (C) 2012, Sisto Baldo and is released under GPL.