Minimal Surfaces With Metal Shapes and Soap Bubbles

Step 2 Solder metal bits together into a shape

You can pick any closed shape, but polyhedra are all cool. Tetrahedra, cubes, pyramids all work. If you can build the items close to their ideal (e.g. equal angles and matching sides that are supposed to be the same length), your bubble surfaces come out with better aesthetics.


Some helpful hints:

A third hand is really useful here

You can be sloppy with your solder joints, because these are not bearing any force. It just looks better if you make clean joins.