Wallis's conical edge

Wallis's conical edge is a ruled surface given by the parametric equations:

x=v\cos u,\quad y=v\sin u,\quad z=c\sqrt{a^2-b^2\cos^2u}.\,

where a, b and c are constants.

Wallis's conical edge is also a kind of right conoid.

Figure 2 shows that the Wallis's conical edge is generated by a moving line.

Wallis's conical edge is named after the English mathematician John Wallis, who was one of the first to use Cartesian methods to study conic sections.[1]

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References

A. Gray, E. Abbena, S. Salamon,Modern differential geometry of curves and surfaces with Mathematica, 3rd ed. Boca Raton, FL:CRC Press, 2006. [2] (ISBN 9781584884484)