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Image by Ivan Sterling

The Wente Torus As concretized by Stewart Dickson

Research sponsored by Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725

Is a compact immersion of the torus which has constant mean curvature. Previous to 1984, the only known surface having this property was the sphere. Henry Wente, who discovered this surface is on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo.

Other images and discussion of the Wente Torus and other Constant Mean Curvature surfaces can be found at the following URLs:

The Wente Torus Page at The Mathematical Sciences Research Instutute.

The Wente Torus Page at the Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics (GANG) Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Here are some images I have made of the surface, from data supplied by Ivan Sterling.

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A group of halves and sections of the Wente Torus rendered in Stereolithography at the Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Andrew Layton, Program Manager.