Re: quadric surfaces
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- Subject: [mg12828] Re: [mg12792] quadric surfaces
- From: Alfred Gray <gray at hypatia.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:15:06 -0400
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What's wrong with
ParametricPlot3D[{u,v,u v},{u,-1,1},{v,-1,1}] ?
Which text book are you referring to?
Alfred Gray
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Russell.E.Goodman wrote:
> Hello all... I'm working on some Mathematica for a Calc IV course and
> needed some help with quadric surfaces. How can you get
> Mathematicatica to graph a nice looking hyperbolic paraboloid as well
> as other quadric surfaces like you see in the textbooks. I've ended up
> using ParametricPlot3D, CylindricalPlot, and others but I still can't
> get a perfect/textbook example of a hyperbolic paraboloid. Help??
>
> Russ Goodman
> University of Oklahoma -- Department of Mathematics rgoodman at ou.edu
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