The primitive rhombohedron is a parallelepiped whose faces are all 60º rhombi, here with a very thin outline:

Inside this rhombohedron lives an interesting minimal surface:

This surface belongs to a special family within the centro-symmetric locus CS of TMPS4 that can be regenerated from a 3-catenoidal nodal limit. Below is a view that is a little closer to this nodal limit, this time over a hexagonal torus.

These surfaces also have rhombic torus rotational half-turn quotients, by a horizontal line passing through in between the smaller catenoidal necks:

Interestingly, the catenoidal necks can move:

This is the simplest instance of an Adler-Moser resonance in the case of embedded minimal surfaces. Details will follow.

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