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 Graphics Gallery: Helicatenoid
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 Visualizing objects in three-dimensions is hard enough--not to speak of understanding how two surfaces transform into each other. An animation of a mathematical function helps make clear exactly why the catenoid and the helicoid are related by an isometry.
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 http://www.mathematica-journal.com/issue/v2i2/
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