Citations:supercatenoid


 * 2012 Johan Gielis et al., "Universal Natural Shapes: From Unifying Shape Description to Simple Methods for Shape Analysis and Boundary Value Problems" PLOS one
 * The supercatenoid has the property that sufficiently small pieces of it minimize the anisotropic energy defined by the Wulff shape among all surfaces having the same boundary (Figure 1). Like catenoids in soap films minimize stress completely for isotropic energies, in supercatenoids stress is also minimized locally, defined by the anisotropic energy. Supercatenoids then provide equilibrium shapes for snowflakes and their development, taking into account the symmetry of ice.