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Thread: Interactive Gallery of Quadric Surfaces

A tour of the various quadric surfaces, with interactive applets that illustrate cross sections and the effect of changing parameters.

1. Preliminaries
   • Introduction to the Interactive Gallery of Quadric Surfaces
   • Quadric surfaces
   • Cross sections of a surface
2. The gallery
   • The elliptic paraboloid
   • The hyperbolic paraboloid
   • The ellipsoid
   • The double cone
   • The hyperboloid of one sheet
   • The hyperboloid of two sheets

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