Triply Punctured Torus

The sculpted shape is topologically equivalent to a torus with three punctures. The images below, created in Mathematica using the late Al Gray's parametrization of a Costa surface and simply morphing between that and a torus (an idea of Dan Schwalbe), show one can transform a triply punctured torus to a Costa surface.

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Spikey Created with Wolfram Mathematica 6