Discover why soap films find the shapes they do through 22 interactive demonstrations covering soap film physics, Plateau's problem, bubble mechanics, triply periodic surfaces, and the Weierstrass representation.
See also: Differential Geometry for the mean-curvature-zero condition that defines minimality, Optimization for the variational principle that surfaces minimize, and Geometric Flows for mean curvature flow as a path toward minima.
Surface tension, energy minimization, and the physics of thin films
Given a boundary curve, find the minimal surface — interactive wire frame solver
Pressure, double bubbles, and the isoperimetric problem
The Gyroid, Schwarz P, and Schwarz D — infinite surfaces repeating in 3 directions
Building minimal surfaces from complex analysis — the (g, η) construction
The area functional, first variation, and why minimal surfaces are critical points
When minimal surfaces are stable, genus considerations, and the Costa surface