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| This shows (the real coordinate points of) Barth's surface drawn with the
symbolic manipulation program Mathematica. Barth's surface is known as
a sextic surface in the complex three dimensional projective space with
sixty five double points. Viewing this animation, we notice that a dodecahedron is hidden in the picture. We could never imagine the dodecahedron only with its defining equation: |
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| We used a special package ImplicitPlot3D.m by Steven Wilkinson for drawing this picture. |
Reference: http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/riemenschneider/barth.html
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