Cusps of Gauss Mappings

Thomas Banchoff
Terence Gaffney
Clint McCrory

Web Version by

Daniel Dreibelbis

• Preface
• Table of Contents
  1. Prelude: Gauss mappings of plane curves
  2. Gauss mappings of surfaces
     • Example 1: The shoe surface
     • Example 2: Menn's surface
     • Example 3a: The perturbed monkey saddle
     • Example 3b: The handkerchief surface
     • Example 4: Surfaces of revolution
     • Example 5: Canal surfaces
  3. Characterizations of Gaussian cusps
     • Part 1
     • Part 2
     • Part 3
  4. Singularities of families of mappings
  5. Projections to lines
  6. Focal and parallel surfaces
  7. Projections to planes
  8. Singularities and extrinsic geometry
  9. References
  10. Movies