Gyroid
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thumb|right|A gyroid minimal surface, coloured to show the Gaussian curvature at each point thumb|right|3D model of a gyroid unit cell
A gyroid is an infinitely connected triply periodic minimal surface discovered by Alan Schoen in 1970. It arises naturally in polymer science and biology, as an interface with high surface area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gyroid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.