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minimal_surface — 3D surface op

使い方

A classical minimal surface, from its exact parametrisation.

catenoid (c cosh(u/c) cos v, c cosh(u/c) sin v, u), helicoid (u cos v, u sin v, c v), enneper (u - u^3/3 + u v^2, v - v^3/3 + v u^2, u^2 - v^2) and scherk z = log(cos y / cos x) (the doubly periodic surface, over one cell).

★★Why this earns its place — the definition is the gate. A minimal surface is one whose mean curvature vanishes everywhere, and the existing vertex_curvature op measures exactly that. So the claim “this is a minimal surface” is checked by an op that knows nothing about how the surface was built. ★A trap worth naming: the catenoid and the helicoid are isometric, so their Gaussian curvatures agree pointwise — but that is a necessary, not sufficient condition for minimality (a sphere and a plane differ in K, yet matching K would not make either minimal). Grade on H.

Parameters

kind : str One of MINIMAL_SURFACES. nu, nv : int Grid resolution along the two parameters. extent : float Half-range of the first parameter (how much of the surface to take). scale : float The surface’s own scale parameter (c for catenoid and helicoid).

Returns a mesh: (vertices, faces).

Raises ValueError: unknown kind; a grid below 4x4 or over the cap; non-positive scale; an extent that reaches the singularity (Scherk’s surface is only defined where cos x and cos y share a sign, so an extent at or beyond pi/2 is refused rather than silently clipped to infinity).

HALCON: no operator.

参考(サンプルデータ・文献)

実行できる例(この op を実際に呼ぶ検証済みサンプル)

型が繋がる次の op(mesh を入力に取れる)

mesh_to_voxel · mesh_to_points · to_points · fuse_to_voxel · ambient_occlusion · cast_shadow · supersample_mesh · render_beauty

同カテゴリ(surface)

minimal_surface_bend · gyroid_isosurface · gyroid_solid_mask · curve3d_tube_mesh


Provenance: render3d.py — 3D operator registry. この per-op ノートは tools/opdocs.py md が自動生成(手編集しない)。

© 2026 Kazufumi Furuse — Fullseye operator documentation. Licensed under Apache-2.0.