Sliced Wente Torus

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The Wente Torus This surface, as concretized by Stewart Dickson Research, is sponsored by the Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The lab is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. It was discovered that a compact immersion of the torus has constant mean curvature. Before 1984, this property was only known to be true of the sphere. Henry Wente, who made this discovery, is on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toledo. More images and discussion about the Wente Torus and other Constant Mean Curvature surfaces can be found online at: The Wente Torus Page at The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute: http://www.msri.org/publications/sgp/jim/images/stills/wente/mainc.html The Wente Torus Page at the Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics Center: http://www.gang.umass.edu/gallery/cmc/cmcgallery0301.html These images were made from data supplied by Ivan Sterling.