 The points on the surface may be parameterized in polar coordinates by a pair of numbers ("r",θ).Each such pair corresponds to a point in three dimensions according to the parametric equations 
The surface can also be expressed as the solution to a polynomial equation of order 16 in the Cartesian coordinates of the three-dimensional space.The Weierstrass–Enneper parameterization, a method for turning certain pairs of functions over the complex numbers into minimal surfaces, produces this surface for the two functions formula_4.