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Conic Sections - Cone slices: Circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola
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I just took a minute to code this up for the common math exercise that shows how slices of a cone can produce the shapes (from the top down): Circle, Ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.
Note: This isn't really ready to print unless you went crazy with supports. Plus I simply cut out sections of the cone with the difference() command for the visual fun of the model. That means if you did print this out the parts wouldn't actually match up if you tried to stack it. Creating a printable version wou
Note: This isn't really ready to print unless you went crazy with supports. Plus I simply cut out sections of the cone with the difference() command for the visual fun of the model. That means if you did print this out the parts wouldn't actually match up if you tried to stack it. Creating a printable version wou
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