physorg.com — "A twisted soap bubble with a handle? If you find that hard to visualize, it's understandable. Experts had thought for more than 200 years that such a structure was not even mathematically possible. But no longer."
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chimeDec 26, 2005
57 diggs, 1 unrelated comment. I wonder how many people dugg this just because it sounds cool. Ha./doesn't get it either
strdDec 26, 2005
Old news. More than a month ago all pop-science sites reported this. no digg.
fkuallDec 26, 2005
Genus One Helicoid:This is an embedded minimal surface of genus one asymptotic to the helicoid. The Gauss map has an essential singularity at the end. So far, this is the only embedded minimal surface where such a singularity can't be removed by a change of corrdinates.i really recomend taking a look at the second gallery link <a class="user" href="http://www.indiana.edu/~minimal/archive/index.html">http://www.indiana.edu/~minimal/archive/index.html</a>
piesforyouDec 26, 2005
In it's 3Dness glory (cross eyed stereo image...)<a class="user" href="http://www.indiana.edu/~minimal/archive/stereo/helicoid1.png">http://www.indiana.edu/~minimal/archive/stereo/helicoid1.png</a>so... why?
Closed AccountDec 26, 2005
No... it's weird math.