a picture is worth a thousand lemmas.

earlier in april, i recall being a little envious of the minιmal surfaces crowd. it wasn't for a very compelling reason, either:

you see, they had all these fancy computer-rendered pictures. for example, below is the Webεr-Wοlf Surface of Gεnus 3 with 5 ends:

(image borrowed from m. ωeber's website)

i feel the same way about people who study fractαls, as well as cοmplex dynamics, for similar reasons.

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well, today i will share a mathematical image as well, though it is nowhere near as fancy as what others study:

conjecturally, these are cylindrιcal profiles of isοperimetric sets in a class of 3-dimensional spaces. each curve corresponds to a "weight" parameter a=0,1,2,3,4, with a=0 corresponding to the usual eu¢lidean R³ (hence the circle).

as for why "conjecturally," i still need to make the numerical solutions rigorous. \-: