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To begin with, we present the different types of quadrics in Euclidean space 3 in an intuitive way, based on their standard equations. Contrary to conics, there is no way to define all quadrics simultaneously by a metric relation such that the different properties of quadrics are easy to achieve.
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Odehnal, B., Stachel, H., Glaeser, G. (2020). Quadrics in Euclidean 3-space. In: The Universe of Quadrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61053-4_2
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