2017 Bridges Conference Short Film Festival
Alexander Bobenko
Filmmakers
Alexander Bobenko
Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics Department, TU Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Statement
Short film about geometry.
Films
Koebe Polyhedra and Minimal Surfaces
00:01:45
Alexander Bobenko, Janek Newjoto, Stefan Sechelmann, Jan Techter
2017
All edges of a Koebe polyhedron are tangent to a sphere.
Its face planes intersect the sphere in circles, which constitute a circle packing on the sphere
and via stereographic projection a circle packing in the plane.
This is the intro sequence of an upcoming film on Koebe polyhedra and minimal surfaces. It is self-contained and shows all the above mentioned connections in one continuous scene.