Costa-Hoffman minimal surface

A completely immersed minimal surface with finite total curvature, boundary, genus 1 and 3 ends. It's also called a 3-punctured torus.

Figure 7.33. Costa-Hoffman

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mimicking Weierstrass parametrization


vertices: 77
faces: 64+3
edges: 144
genus: 1

characteristic polynomial: (5 - 5x + x2) ... (1 - 144x2 + ... + x16)2

dual's characteristic polynomial:

chromatic number: 2

lattice group (lossy): Z(2) 75