The bicontinuous fish tank

With the help of various people at the Canberra Art School's glass workshop, I've made a cast of 2x2x2 translational units of the cubic Primitive triply-periodic minimal surface. Applications include interesting experiments with predator and prey fish, each of them in one of the two intertwined channel domains that are separated by the curved glass wall. The only problem with glass is that it can break...

View along the [111] direction

Particular thanks to Itzell Tazzieman, Robin Campbell, Richard Whiteley, Gilbert Riedelbauch (ANU Art School, Glass workshop) and Ben and Ron Cruikshank (ANU, RSPhysSE, mechanical workshop).