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The Costa surface is a relatively new type of minimal surface, and it is topologically equivalent to a torus with three punctures. The images shown are from an animation that uses a very simple morphing idea to go from a torus to the Costa surface.
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Wagon, S. (2010). Parametric Plotting of Surfaces. In: Wagon, S. (eds) Mathematica in Action. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75477-2_10
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