{Ellipses and Things}[3rd August 1988]

[Redbook5:247][19880803:1017]{Ellipses and Things}[3rd August 1988]

19880803.1017

It is interesting that taking a Circle and square cross:

[See ms image below]*

– and skewing the cross piece, produces an ellipse-ish shape**

(I think!)**

– whereas if you first moved the crosspiece towards one end [–]

[See ms image below]*

[–] you get something rather like an egg.


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**[No, surely you just get a circle with a non-square cross – unless the non-diagonal cross defines the container, which is maybe (presumably?) what was meant]

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