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.
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