Conic Section Ellipse Poster is a piece of digital artwork by Russell Kightley which was uploaded on August 19th, 2013.
Conic Section Ellipse Poster
An ellipse is is a geometric figure (shown here in hot red) formed when a plane intersects a cone (green) but fails to cross the base of the cone... more
Title
Conic Section Ellipse Poster
Artist
Russell Kightley
Medium
Digital Art
Description
An ellipse is is a geometric figure (shown here in hot red) formed when a plane intersects a cone (green) but fails to cross the base of the cone i.e. the ellipse is a closed figure unlike a parabola or an hyperbola. An ellipse is like a flattened circle and is a very important figure since it describes the orbits of the planets around the sun. When the interesecting plane lies parallel to the base of the cone then the ellipse becomes equal to a circle (a circle is a special case of an ellipse).
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August 19th, 2013
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