Touching Soap Films

An Introduction to Minimal Surfaces
By Hermann Karcher and Konrad Polthier

Introduction
Plateau
History
Visualization
Architecture
Crystallography
Weierstraß
Properties 1
Properties 2
Properties 3
Symmetry
Alteration
Periodic
Handles
Production
Scenes 1
Scenes 2
Scenes 3
Results
Exhibition
Numerics
References
Web Links

Web Links

Touching Soap Films is a computer-generated video explaining the world of minimal surfaces. Length 41 minutes.

Interactive applets on minimal surface are available at the Visual Geometry Pages.

A large collection of minimal surfaces is exhibited by David Hoffman and Jim Hoffman at MSRI in the Scientific Graphics Project.

Surface Evolver of Ken Brakke solves complex variational problems. Ken Brakke and Alan Schoen have recently done experiments on new triply period minimal surfaces.

A gallery of minimal surfaces and software 3D-Filmstrip for MacOS by Richard Palais.

Soap bubbles and foams have been studied by John Sullivan.

A collection of minimal surfaces was produced by Martin Steffens and Christian Teitzel with the software Grape.