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Home > 2012 Mathematical Art Exhibition
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"Lawson's Minimum-Energy Klein Bottle," by Carlo Séquin (University of California, Berkeley)
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9" x 6" x 4.5", FDM model, 2011
Third Place Award, 2012 Mathematical Art Exhibition
My professional work in computer graphics and geometric design has also provided a bridge to the world of art. This is a gridded model of a Klein bottle (Euler characteristic 0, genus 2) with the minimal possible total surface bending energy. This energy is calculated as the surface integral over mean curvature squared. --- Carlo Séquin (University of California, Berkeley, CA, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/
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