The Borromean Rings

A new logo for the IMU

Charles Gunn and John M. Sullivan

Produced at:

3D Labor
Department of Mathematics, TU Berlin
DFG Research Center MATHEON

Postproduction:

Samy Khadem

Software used:

jReality (www.jReality.de) with: Surface Evolver, RenderMan, AVN

Programming support:

Nils Bleicher, Bernd Gonska, Martin Sommer

Sound enginerring:

Immanuel Aldag (Telefactory)

IMU Logo design:

John M. Sullivan with Nancy Wrinkle

Tight Borromean Rings:

J. Cantarella, J. Fu, R. Kusner, J. Sullivan, N. Wrinkle
Criticality for the Gehring Link Problem
www.arXiv.org/math.DG/0402212
Geometry and Topology 10 (2006) pp. 2055–2115

Photo credits:

Peter Cromwell, Philippe Lavergne, John M. Sullivan

Thanks to:

George Francis, Rob Kusner, Stuart Levy, Ines Putz, Nancy Wrinkle,
The Geometry Center (Minneapolis), NCSA and the University of Illinois,
jReality development team, TU Geometry and Visualization group