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Complex Rotation of Minimal Surfaces


	This demonstrates the rotation of a minimal surface in the complex plane. A range of minimal surfaces generated by the Weierstraß parametrization from , as , with can be obtained. The multiplication by introduces a rotation in the complex plane.


	Contributed by: Roman E. Maeder

Snapshot 1: the surface for

is the catenoid

Snapshot 2:

gives the helicoid

Snapshot 3:

gives a transition phase

The code for computing the parametrization is from Roman E. Maeder, The Mathematica Programmer, Academic Press, 1994.

Contributed by: Roman E. Maeder

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