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Dini's surface
 Dini's surface ,description.

 Enneper's surface
 Enneper's surface ,description.

 Threefoil knot
 Threefoil knot ,description.
Klein Bottle
Klein Bottle ,description.

 Dupin's Cyclide
Dupin Cyclide ,description.

 Steiner's Roman Surface
Steiner's Roman Surface ,description.
Boy's Surface
Boy's Surface ,description.

 Kuen's Surface
Kuen's Surface ,description.

 Hunt's Surface
Hunt's Surface ,description.
Kummer's Surface
Kummer's Surface ,description.

 Moebius band
Moebius band ,description. 		Cross Cap
The Crosscap ,description.
Seashell
A Seashell , description. 		Tangle
Tanglecube , description .		 Klein-8
Fig. 8 Klein, description.
Heart
Heartsurface, description.
 Cayley Cubic
Cayley , description .		 Clebsch Cubic
Clebsch, description.
Weird
Weirdsurface, description.
 Barth Sextic
Barth Sextic, description.
 Barth Decic
Barth Decic, description.
Steiner Relative
Steiner'ish , description.
 Steiner Relative
Steiner'ish , description.
 Costa Minimal
Costa , description.
Swallowtail
Swallowtail , description.
 Bohemian Dome
Bohemian Dome , description.
 Chair
Chair , description.
Dervish
Dervish , description.
 Astroiodal Ellipsoid
Astroidal , description.

Here is a collection of parametric and implicit equations.
If you feel slightly confused, here's a few notes on surfaces. Send me more surfaces! Last updated 13 September 1997
An example of how to do parametric surfaces in Povray can be downloaded here.
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All images made by Tore Nordstrand. I have used the very good freeware raytracer Persistence of Vision, or PoV for short. You can find it at www.povray.org

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