A Gallery of Famous Surfaces

Minimal Surfaces

Over 30 minimal surfaces (constant mean curvature of 0).

Non-Orientable surfaces

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  Moebius Strip
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  Klein Bottle

Surfaces showing the Projective Plane

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  Cross-Cap Surface,
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  Boy's Surface (Apery)
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  Boy's Surface (Bryant-Kusner)
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  Steiner Surface

Pseudospherical surfaces (K = -1)

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  Pseudosphere
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  Conic K=-1 Surface of Revolution
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  Hyperbolic K=-1 Surface of Revolution
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  Kink Surface
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  Kuen Surface
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  Breather Surface
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  Breather (Parametric)
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  Dini Surface

Spherical Surfaces (K = 1)

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  K=1 Surface of Revolution
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  Sievert-Enneper Surface
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  Spherical Helicoid

CMC Surfaces (H = 1)

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  Unduloid

Conics Surfaces

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  Ellipsoid
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  Paraboloid
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  Hyperbolic Paraboloid
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  Hyperboloid of One Sheet
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  Hyperboloid of Two Sheet

Miscellaneous

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  Sphere
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  Torus
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  Cyclide
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  Whitney Umbrella
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  Right Conoid
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  Monkey Saddle

Famous Algebraic Surfaces

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  Cayley Cubic
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  Clebsch Cubic
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  Kummer Quartic
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  Barth Sextic

Computer Graphics Toy Surfaces

The following surfaces have no mathematical significance. They are more for the looks.

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  Orthocircles
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  Deco-Cube Implicit Surface

Appendix

• Programs and supporting files used on this site.

• References and related websites

Acknowledgement

About 95% of images and surface data on this site are from Richard Palais↗'s 3D-XplorMath↗ software. I like to thank Richard for much of his personal help and encouragement over the years. I also like to thank Hermann Karcher↗ for his help and some of his math expositions used on this website.

See also: A Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves

Page created: 2004.
© 2004 by Xah Lee.