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Math Gallery for the DMS Director at the NSF


Etruscan Venus: Red

(C)1989 Donna Cox, George Francis, Ray Idaszak, NCSA.

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This surface is a Whitney-stable 3D projection of a nonorientable surface with Euler characteristic 0 (a Kleinbottle) embedded in 4-space. Like Steiner's ``Roman Surface'', the ``Etruscan Venus'' loses its singularities under Fran\c cois Ap\' ery's ``Romboy'' homotopy and becomes an immersed surface equivalent to the connected sum of two copies of ``Boy's Surface.''

G.Francis, {\sc The Etruscan Venus}. In P. Concus, R. Finn, D. Hoffman (Eds.) {\it Geometric Analysis and Computer Graphics.} Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications. Springer-Verlag, N.Y. 1991.

Optiverse: ICM98 Berlin Poster

(C)1998 George Francis, John Sullivan, Stuart Levy

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This image graced the main poster of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, August 1999. It is a detail of the four "isthmus events" that open/close the ears of Morin's Surface during the eversion of a sphere.

Weaire-Phelan Foam: Relaxed Voronoi Cells

(C) 1999 John Sullivan, Stuart Levy

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The Weaire-Phelan foam is a counterexample to Kelvin's conjecture about the best partition of space into equal-volume cells.

Computer graphic by John M. Sullivan, Math. Dept., Univ. of Illinois.

See http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~jms/ for more information.

Optiverse: Minimax Sphere Eversion

(C)1998 John Sullivan, George Francis, Stuart Levy

optiverse

The principal stages of this Morin eversion are arranged about the border of this composite.

With the assistance of Camille Goudeseune, the image was raytraced with Renderman on a Silicon Graphics Onyx 2 in the Numerical Laboratory of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the VisLab of the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This Irisprint was made from its electronic database by Digicolor.

Optiverse: Framework Interior

(C)1998 John Sullivan, George Francis, Stuart Levy

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Eggmath Poster

(C) 1999 Steven Bradlow, John Sullivan, Janet Hanlon

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illiSnail: Lawson's Minimal Surfaces

(C)1997 George Francis, Chris Hartman, Glenn Chappell, Stuart Levy

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illiPhaser: May-Leonard Dynamical System

(C)1997 George Francis, Alexei Bourd, Jonathan Manton, Stuart Levy

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Optiverse: Triversion

(C)1998 John Sullivan, George Francis, Stuart Levy

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Dodecaplex

John M. Sullivan

http://new.math.uiuc.edu/~jms/

This image of the dodecaplex graces the August `99 (SIGGRAPH) issue of CACM.