Which Quadric Is Which?
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A quadric surface is the zero set of a quadratic expression in three variables—here, the 3D Cartesian coordinates ,
, and
. There are precisely 17 types of quadrics, but some of them are degenerate and others are imaginary.
Contributed by: Claude Fabre (March 2011)
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