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IN a letter in the issue of NATURE for October 18, Prof. D'Arcy Thompson makes the attractive suggestion that the curved surfaces generated when cylinders or simple polyhedra of gelatin gel are allowed to dry (described by me in Koll.—Zeitschr. 35, p. 67, 1924) bear a strong resemblance to the minimum surfaces over the corresponding boundaries. Such minimum surfaces are easily produced by stretching soap films over openings or wire frames of the desired outline.
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HATSCHEK, E. The Shrinkage of Gelatin. Nature 114, 643–644 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114643a0
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