Barth’s world record surface with transparent background

In the mid-1990s, Wolf Barth created his famous 65-nodal septic surface. I published my first visualizations of this more than 2 decades ago in my PhD thesis on world record surfaces. Later, my visualizations of world record surfaces became known to a wider public. Here is now my first version with a transparent background - that may be printed on a white t-shirt, hoody, or even a coffee [...]

2026-06-07T13:24:13+02:00all|

Three views of a projective cubic surface

In January 2025, Oliver Labs created a corresponding group object composed of three 3d printed sculptures standing on a planar visualization of this family of curves for an exhibition at the Planetarium, Hamburg, Germany. See their website for a brief intro (in German) to the exhibition (from January 25, 2025 to May 31, 2025), and for the exhibition book as a pdf. This piece of math art [...]

2025-01-27T10:49:35+01:00all|

Moebius Strip pendant

The Moebius Strip is a mathematical classic, and even for rings it has been used for many decades at least. Our version of the Moebius Strip pendant, however, is special. Its shape is defined by a mathematical formula!

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