Interactive drawings of algebraic surfaces
Math Club Presentation
University of Minnesota
April 3, 2006
- My web page
- Where to find the pictures
- Info about Java
- The Geometry Center
- Until 1998, the Geometry Center was located at the University
of Minnesota. It is now closed, but its web pages still exist. The program
JGV (Java GeomView) was developed at the Geometry Center.
- Present web address of the Geomnetry Center:
http://geom.math.uiuc.edu/
- JGV Page, where the program can be downloaded:
http://geom.math.uiuc.edu/java/JGV/
- Example of the HTML code that calls the java applet "JGVApplet":
- Various interactive sketches of algebraic surfaces
- Quadric ruled surfaces:
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Quadric cone
- Smooth quadric surfaces:
- Each of the smooth ruled quadrics contains two families
of straight lines . . .
- Other algebraic surfaces:
- The Cayley surface is the projective dual of the Steiner surface.
(Unfortunately, I haven't yet made a good interactive picture of it.)
- The following site contains some nice static pictures of the Cayley surface: