[extropy-chat] MATH: Minimal surface index?

[Anders Sandberg]

Perhaps a bit too math-nerdy, but does anybody know this minimal surface?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87547772@N00/296867895/
I came up with it recently and it is so simple that it ought to be in the
literature but I have not seen anything close. All minimal surface sites I
have seen have lists of interesting surfaces, but no real attempt to list
them all (sure, they are uncountably many).

Overall, I wonder how to best search for theorems and mathematical
concepts you know ought to exist but you lack the name of, or even the
related terminology. We are getting search engines that can search image
databases using drawn pictures (http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/search.html)
or examples in photos (http://www.like.com/). It ought to be possible to
create a math search engine (a truth mine) allowing you to look for
theorems based on structure or the use of special functions.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University