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An ellipse can be the image of a circle under a parallel projection. The terms ellipse, parabola, hyperbola are typical notions of affine geometry.
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Glaeser, G., Stachel, H., Odehnal, B. (2016). Affine Geometry. In: The Universe of Conics. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45450-3_8
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