Surfaces and Curves

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dForm	Spherical Harmonics	3D SuperShape	Pseudosphere	Kuen's
Steinmetz solid	Bifolia	Twisted plane	Twisted Fano	Cross Hole
Klein Bottle	Fano planes	Tranguloid Trefoil	Chladni plates, 2D and 3D	Nose
Aesthetic delight lies somewhere between boredom and confusion. E.H.Gombrick
Witch hat	Slipper	Tangle	Strophoid	Chair
Horn	Cresent	Sea Shells	Decocube	Maeder's Owl
Steiner look-a-like	Cross Cap	Steiner	Hunt	Stiletto
Barth Decic	Twisted Triaxial	Mitre	Nodal cubic	Boy
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting
Apple shape	The Blob	Klein Cycloid	Boy #2	Boy-Like
Pisod triaxial	Mobius strip	Heart #1	Heart #2	Tear drop
"I know what you're thinking about," said Tweedledum; "but it isn't so, nohow." "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be, but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic" Lewis Carroll
Dini's	Verrill	Pilz	Cassini Oval	Glob teardrop
Gerono lemniscate	Piriform	Superellipse	Cymbelloid	Prolatesphereoid
Bezier s	Jet	Splines	Triaxial teardrop	Whitney umbrella
Lemniscape	Tractrix	Pseudocatenoid	Twisted heart
For my own part I am pleased enough with s... what else is there? What else do we need? Edward Abbey
Figure 8 Torus	Triaxial Tritorus	Torus/Supertoroid	Bohemian Dome	Double torus
Gumdrop Torus	Saddle Torus	Bow Tie	Triaxial Hexatorus
2-Torus	Limpet Torus	Elliptic Torus	Kinky torus
Going to war over religion is basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. Richard Jeni
Devil	Swallow	P1 atomic orbital	Ghost Plane	Bent Horns
Folium	Pretzel	Tubey	Catalan minimal	Henneburg minimal
Catenoid minimal	Helicoid minimal	Bour minimal	Ennepers minimal	Richmond minimal
Handkerchief	Scherk minimal	Kidney	Monkey saddle	Pillow shape
Cushion	Double Cone	Spring	Fish	Twisted pipe
There is a remote tribe that worships the number zero. Is nothing sacred? Les Dawson
Snail		Kusner Schmitt	McMullen K3 model	Tri-Trumpet
Weird	Gerhard Miehlich	Kampyle of Eudoxus	Tetra Ellipse	Bretzel
Barth sextic	Cayley	Tooth	Wiffle cube	Horned Cube
Borg	OrthoCircle	Ribbed sphere	Sextic s	Calabi-Yau

Do any of these turn you on?
Harmonograph	SuperShape	Truchet tiles	Inverse Truchet	Supercircle
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects. Johannes Kepler
Bezier curves	Piecewise cubic bezier	Spline curves	Cycloid	Conic sections
Butterfly curve	Chrysanthemum	Equiangular Spiral	Fermats Spiral	Hyperbolic Spiral
Lituus Spiral	Archimedes Spiral	Parabolic spiral	Sinusoidal Spiral	Square Archimedes Spiral
Cornu Spiral	Viviani	Tanh spiral	Coth spiral	Cayleys sextic
Helix	Freeths Nephroid	Cassini Oval	Spherical Nephroid	Epicycloid
Conchoid of Nicomedes	Cissoid of Diocles	Deltoid	Strophoid	Lemniscate Bernoulli
Astroid	Nephroid	Spherical Cardioid	Cardioid	Parabola
Hyperbola	Ellipse	2D Bow curve	Limacon	Snake Kolam
Klein Cycloid	Krishna Anklets	Mango Leaf	Bicorn curve	Glissette
Hypocycloid	Agnesi curve	Kappa curve	Piriform curve	Trisectrix of Maclaurin
Tractrix	Diamond curve	Folium curve	Baseball seam	SGI logo
Knots	Bow curve	Eight knot	Cinquefoil knot	Trefoil knot
Borromean rings	Mesh weave	Granny knot		Reuleaux Triangle