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Goursat surface (tanglecube)

Édouard Goursat, 1887

A quartic with the symmetry of the cube. Change the constant and the shape passes from six separate blobs to a hollow cube with round windows, the form called the tanglecube.

x⁴ − 5x² + y⁴ − 5y² + z⁴ − 5z² + c = 0

On mathcurve.com as Surface de Goursat

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