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Neural Representation of Minimal Surfaces (arxiv.org)
2 points by E-Reverance 68 days ago | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A network builds minimal surfaces exactly, like a classical formula, so the shape is already minimal instead of being nudged to nearly satisfy the equations as mesh or neural-field approaches do. It finds the smallest surface spanning a given boundary with tiny numerical error.

Abstract

We propose a neural representation for minimal surfaces. Unlike prior approaches based on discretization or Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), where meshes or neural fields are optimized to approximate the governing equations, our method builds on an exact representation, similar to the classical Weierstrass--Enneper parameterization, yielding minimal surfaces up to negligible quadrature error in evaluation. We formulate a training objective for the Plateau problem that optimizes over this representation.

Jiayin Sun, Albert Chern
arXiv:2607.23437 · cs.GR, cs.LG · submitted Jul 26, 2026
abstract · pdf · html · 11 pages, 11 figures

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