A hyperbolic helicoid with torsion τ. The colormap is simply the parameter v.

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The surface is defined by the parametric equations

x=sinhvcosτu1+coshucoshvy=sinhvsinτu1+coshucoshvz=coshvsinhu1+coshucoshv

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