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CYLINDROCONICAL CURVE
Cylindroconical curves are the intersections between a cylinder of revolution and a cone of revolution. Therefore, they are biquadratics.
In the case of a cylinder with radius a the axis of which is perpendicular to that of a cone with half-angle at the vertex equal to 2α:
System of Cartesian equations: Cartesian parametrization: |
![]() d = 0 |
![]() Here, d = a: the vertex of the cone is an isolated point of the curve. |
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In the case of a cylinder with radius a the axis of which is parallel to that of a cone with half-angle at the vertex equal to 2α:
System of Cartesian equations: Cartesian parametrization: |
![]() d = 0: two circles. |
![]() 0 < d < a |
![]() d = a: Viviani curve. |
![]() d > a |
Naturally, there are a lot of different cases.
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