Weld seams between gyroid meshes

There does indeed. You can form a discrete minimal version of the Diamond (Schwarz D surface) by rearranging the faces of a rhombic dodecahedron.


I posted here an example of subdividing and optimising this to make a discrete minimal surface:


You could also just apply Catmull-Clark subdivision to the simple quad mesh - this won’t give an exactly discrete minimal surface with planar faces like the Koebe polyhedron method linked above, and the faces won’t be planar, but it’s a fairly close approximation.

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