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There are minimal surfaces admitting a Bézier form. We study the properties that the associated net of control points must satisfy. We show that in the bicubical case all minimal surfaces are, up to an affine transformation, pieces of the Enneper’s surface.
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Cosín, C., Monterde, J. (2002). Bézier surfaces of minimal area. In: Sloot, P.M.A., Hoekstra, A.G., Tan, C.J.K., Dongarra, J.J. (eds) Computational Science — ICCS 2002. ICCS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46080-2_8
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