Right conoid
In geometry, a right conoid is a ruled surface generated by a family of straight lines that all intersect perpendicularly to a fixed straight line, called the axis of the right conoid.
Using a Cartesian coordinate system in three-dimensional space, if we take the z-axis to be the axis of a right conoid, then the right conoid can be represented by the parametric equations:
where h is some function for representing the height of the moving line.Examples
A typical example of right conoids is given by the parametric equations
The image on the right shows how the coplanar lines generate the right conoid.
Other right conoids include:
- Helicoid:
- Whitney umbrella:
- Wallis's conical edge:
- Plücker's conoid:
- hyperbolic paraboloid: .
