MinMax Function




A mixing -minmax- of a sphere and of a 'thick' helix defined by means of three bidimensional fields

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The so-called minmax function is defined as follows:
                    minmax(x,y) = max(min(x,1-y),min(1-x,y))
with:
                    x  [0,1]
                    y  [0,1]



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