Why I turned to Mathematica (sorry) to plot minimal surfaces

Abstract: I will introduce the general procedure to plot minimal surfaces from Weierstrass data. For this purpose, I will present two examples from recent works: One is a deformation of the Gyroid, the other is related to vortices in 2D fluids. As a former Sage user, I had to turn to Mathematica for this task because of the heavy use of special functions and numeric integrals. In the future, I would like to see an open-source implementation of the procedure with a performance comparable to Mathematica.

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Audience: advanced learners

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