Barth’s Vase

“Barth’s Vase” is inspired by the vase-like appearance of the Barth Sextic, one of the complex nodal surfaces in 3 dimensions with large numbers of double points found by Wolf Barth. See here for a description of this surface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barth_surface

Twenty of the “Barth Vase” objects snap together to form a representation of the full Barth Surface. The nodal points in the mathematical Barth Surface have been thickened here for structural purposes and become the neck of the vases and connection points between the vases.

The snaps allow the sculpture to be reconfigured as you like. To make it permanent, just add a bit of glue before snapping together.

When printing, be sure to set up support for the lower portion of the snap.