Hyperboloid as a Ruled Surface

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Connect two circles with elastic strings. Twisting a circle generates the hyperboloid of one sheet. Surfaces that are generated by a family of straight lines are called ruled surfaces.

Contributed by: Bruce Atwood (March 2011)
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