How?!

The optimization is done with a combination of equalization, planarization and bending forces.

I'll post a definition soon.

"The optimization is done with a combination of equalization, planarization and bending forces." you forgot to add skills ;)

well done

thank u so much for sharing :)

wow!

Here's the model if anyone is interested:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26034251/discrete_costa.3dm

and here's the definition:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26034251/quasiisothermic.gh

so you can create all types of minimal surfaces... this is really awesome ;)

Yes, in theory this approach should work with many types of surface. The tricky part is initializing it with the right singularities though.

Wow, this is awesome. Could you let me know where can I find references to understand the algorithm?

Thanks for sharing!

Yeah! Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

For further reading :

http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~sechel/DiplomaThesis.pdf

http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~bobenko/MinimalCircle/minsurftalk.pdf

and 

S. Sechelmann, T. Roerig, and A. I. Bobenko. Quasiisothermic Mesh Layout. In Hesselgren, L.; Sharma, S.; Wallner, J.; Baldassini, N.; Bompas, P.; Raynaud, J. (Eds.). Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012. 2012, 344 p. 285 illus. in color. ISBN 978-3-7091-1250-2

I use a slightly different energy (which I'll write a post about soon), but to optimize towards the same condition.

awesome¡¡ thanks4sharing

thx for sharing! very helpful!

HI, Daniel, I can't open the quasiisothermic. gh file, why? my version is rhino5 ,gh 0.9.0006

Hi, Daniel, I'm unable to open it too, although my version is gh 0.9.0006 but in Rhino 4

thank you very much!!!!

Hi Daniel,

I would really like to see how you implemented this surface. However, it looks like you deleted the gh file from your dropbox. Would you mind sharing it again ? I am particularly interested in how you implemented the formula given by Mr. Bobenko to compute the radii of the circles.

Very nice work! Thanks for sharing

the files are no longer available, can somebody send me the files please...
thanks in advance.

the link of the gh&3dm file was lost~ could plz attach them again? thank you very much