Ovoid

An egg-shaped curve. Lockwood (1967) calls the negative pedal curve of an ellipse with eccentricity e<=1/2 an ovoid.

See also

Burleigh's Oval, Oval

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References

Lockwood, E. H. A Book of Curves. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 157, 1967.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Ovoid." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Ovoid.html

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