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Dini’s surface

Ulisse Dini, 1866

A pseudosphere twisted into a helix. It keeps the constant negative curvature while winding upward like a shell.

(cos u sin v, sin u sin v, cos v + ln tan(v/2) + b u)

On mathcurve.com as Surface de Dini

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