Minimal Surfaces

I've been reading alot about minimal surfaces in the last week or so and find them incredibly interesting. I'm thinking about incorporating them into my assignment for an advanced computing class, but am still quite unsure as to what programs and plugins are out which can generate and produce complex minimal surfaces.

I did read some other discussions on minimal surfaces on the forums, so hopefully this thread could get a good talk going on minimal surfaces and their application in architecture or architectural theory.

Check out this installation done at the Sydney Customs House in Australia.

The instalation actually quite closely mirrors something that i have in mind for my project, so any thoughts letting me know if this is at all possible to replicate would be appreciated. :)

Link: http://www.archdaily.com/10233/green-void-lava/

and quick image

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Permalink Reply by Acidnoid on October 28, 2010 at 10:49am

well, DONE!

ok here is my approch... guess it might be a bit cheating:

construct min surf by 3 circles big-small-big and loft it... scale this and rotate.. trim it...
the nurbs to mesh; weld with 180 and use mininmal surface script on mesh done.

then add subdiv via RhinoWEaver PLugin... and I used (thanks to Jon Mirtschin) Geometry GYm plugin with min. surface script on mesh

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