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SPIRIC SECTION
| The torus was called "speira" by the Greeks: spiric is thus equivalent to toric. |
| Cartesian equation:
with A ¹ B. |
The plane spirics are the planar sections of a torus;
they are called spirics
of Perseus when the plane is parallel to the axis of the torus.
For a torus with centre O, axis Oz, major
and minor radii a and b, cut by the plane located at distance
d
to O, forming an angle a with
xOy
and cutting xOy along a parallel of Ox, we get, in a frame
with origin the projection of O on the plane, the above Cartesian
equation with 
.
sign problem in A.
When the plane is bitangent to the torus and not perpendicular
to its axis, we get a Villarceau circle of the torus.
To obtain all the cases of the Cartesian equation given
in the header, the torus must sometimes be considered as complex.
The spirics also are the isoptics
of the centred conics.
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