Gyroid

For the polyhedron, see Gyroid (crystallography).
For the video game character, see Animal Crossing (video game).
A gyroid minimal surface, coloured to show the Gaussian curvature at each point
3D model of a gyroid unit cell

A gyroid is an infinitely connected triply periodic minimal surface discovered by Alan Schoen in 1970.[1][2] It arises naturally in polymer science and biology, as an interface with high surface area.

  1. ^ Schoen, Alan H. (May 1970). Infinite periodic minimal surfaces without self-intersections (PDF) (Technical report). NASA Technical Note. NASA. NASA TN D-5541.
  2. ^ Hoffman, David (June 25 – July 27, 2001). "Computing Minimal Surfaces". Global Theory of Minimal Surfaces. Proceedings of the Clay Mathematics Institute. Berkeley, California: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. ISBN 9780821835876. OCLC 57134637.