V.Bulatov's VRML corner

Here is a collection of various intresting mathematical surfaces. Some of them have a name, some was constructed by me. Hopefully, I will put here soon an analytical formulas describing this surfaces.

I have tryed to investigate variouse techniques of representing mathematiacal surfaces in VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language) format. In particulary almost all of them have variouse kind of colour texture, which may be used to represents additional information on surface. If your VRML browsers doesn't support textures, you can get larger still picture by clicking on corresponding icon.

Uncompressed VRML files are quite large (some up to 500K in size), therefore they are compressed using gzip. If your browser doesn't understand it, that means that something is wrong with you browser :-).

VRML

67K

Moebus strip (one side surface)
VRML

152K

Boy's surface.
VRML

105K

Transformation of Boy's surface (Venus).
VRML

119K

Another transformation of Boy's surface.
VRML

70K

Eight shaped Klein bottle.
VRML

104K

Roman surface.
VRML

51K

Enneper's surface (minimal surface - surface with zero mean curvature)
VRML

36K

Crumpled torus (color corresponds to direction of normal).
VRML

53K

Unshaved torus (normals itself are shown).
VRML

207K

Coloured torus.

Comments, opinions, suggestions, questions are welcome. More graphics and animation you can find at my home page. What about MPEG movies?


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