Right Conoid
A ruled surface is called a right conoid if it can be generated by moving a straight line intersecting a fixed straight line such that the lines are always perpendicular (Kreyszig 1991, p. 87). Taking the perpendicular plane as the xy-plane and the line to be the x-axis gives the parametric equations
x(u,v) = vcostheta(u)
(1)
y(u,v) = vsintheta(u)
(2)
z(u,v) = h(u)
(3)
(Gray 1997). Taking h(u)=2u and theta(u)=u gives the helicoid.
See also
Conoid, Helicoid, Plücker's Conoid, Right Circular Conoid, Wallis's Conical EdgeExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
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References
Dixon, R. Mathographics. New York: Dover, p. 20, 1991.Ferréol, R. "Conoid." https://mathcurve.com/surfaces.gb/conoid/conoid.shtml.Gray, A. Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 450-452, 1997.Kreyszig, E. Differential Geometry. New York: Dover, 1991.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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