Minimal Flowers
John M. Sullivan

Proceedings of Bridges 2010: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 395–398
Short Papers

Abstract

This paper describes my sculptures Minimal Flower 3, an homage to Brent Collins, and its new cousin, Minimal Flower 4. They are both constructed as minimal surfaces spanning certain knotted boundary curves, with three-fold and four-fold rotational symmetry, respectively.

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