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Like spheres and cylinders, cones are surfaces that we can easily imagine. Like cylinders, they are simply curved and developable. Among all cone surfaces, the cone of revolution and the oblique circular cone are especially important.
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Glaeser, G. (2020). More about conic sections and developable surfaces. In: Geometry and its Applications in Arts, Nature and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61398-3_5
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