Lawson Surface of Genus 2 Exhibit Size

The Lawson surface is the only known minimal surface of genus two in the 3-sphere. It was found by Blaine Lawson Jr. in 1970. It has various symmetries and is build out of a single piece by rotation and reflection. The 3d-data was produced by Nicholas Schmitt and Wjatscheslaw Kewlin (Geometrie Wekstatt) and can be downloaded at the IMAGINARY website. Find the Lawson Surface and other Constrained Willmore surfaces in the IMAGINARY gallery.

IMAGINARY is a project by the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach and supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.

Please note: IMAGINARY is an open source and non-commercial project. All 3d files are available under an open license, such that you can re-print the sculptures for own exhibitions (following the license specifications). To reimburse our "3D data expert", who takes care to polish and prepare the 3d data and to put the sculptures on the Shapeways shop, we added to this sculpture a 10% fee to the Shapeways price. This amount will be used only for work related to offering more 3d data and sculptures openly and freely to everyone. You can also print this sculpture from your own account.