Showing posts with label surfaces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surfaces. Show all posts

Thursday, December 15, 2011

This surface by Xah Lee, which he calls the Borg Cube, is given by the equation
sin(xy) + sin(yz) + sin(zx) = 0

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Clebsch Diagonal Cubic

The surface is given by the equation x^3 + y^3 + z^3 + w^3 + t^3 = 0, restricted to the values x, y, z, w, t, such that x + y + z + w + t = 0.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010



These beautiful origami pieces were constructed by mathematicians Erik and Martin Demaine (first image) and Thomas Hull (second image) to investigate the surfaces that result from different kinds of pleated folding.