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Tangent Planes on a 3D Graph


	This shows the plane tangent to the surface at a given point. The disk's radius grows to match the distance of the gradient .


	Contributed by: Drew Kozicki

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Tangent Plane (Wolfram MathWorld)

"Tangent Planes on a 3D Graph" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TangentPlanesOnA3DGraph/

Contributed by: Drew Kozicki

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