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13 TOUCHING SOAP
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Andreas Arnez, Konrad Polthier,
Martin Steffens, Christian Teitzel |
Christoph März | |||||||||||||||
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| Konrad Polthier | ||||||||||||||||
| Grape, Softimage | ||||||||||||||||
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Bernd Oberknapp, Ralf Neubauer, Hermann Karcher, Erik Hansen, Leon Hansen,
Matthias Heil, David Oliver, Armin Ortmann
Supported by: Sfb256 at University Bonn, Sfb288 at TU-Berlin |
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www.polthier.info/video.html
German edition "Palast der Seifenhäute" available from Bild der Wissenschaft and Komplett-Video |
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| Touching Soap Films is a popular scientific video about the world of soap films. A soap film is physically similar to a rubber band, which tries to contract itself under surface tension to a surface with least area. Like few other problems the study of soap films has inspired many branches of mathematics since nearly 200 years, and it belongs to major research areas. This excerpt shows the continuous process of constructing a new minimal surface, discovered by Hermann Karcher in 1989, by inserting handles in the classical surface of Hermann Amandus Schwarz. | ||||||||||||||||
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Konrad Polthier
Konrad Zuse Zentrum (ZIB) Takustrasse 7 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Germany Tel: +49 (30)
84185-204
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