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Graphic for Conic Sections

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  • Subject: [mg4764] Graphic for Conic Sections
  • From: Xah Lee <xah at best.com>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 13:54:49 -0400
  • Organization: Best Internet Communications
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I think many people--teachers in particular--are interested to use
Mathematica to generate graphics that illustrate conic sections. I have
completed writing a few Mathematica programs that does this.

The program will generates graphics of a double cone and slicing plane
of arbitrary angles, together with their intersections and Dandelin
spheres.

You may get these Mathematica programs along with examples of their
graphics at my web page

http://www.best.com/~xah/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/ConicSections_dir/conicSections.html

 Xah
 xah at best.com; 74631.731 at compuserve.com
 http://www.best.com/~xah/PageTwo_dir/more.html
 Mountain View, CA, USA

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