CONES & SPIRALS
Cons & spirals draw
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From logarithmic spirals traced in circular sectors we get conoidal helices when the corresponding cone is made up. If a thread wound around the cone is unwound tangentially to the cone, the end describes a logarithmic spiral on the plane.

  Question What objects have conoidal helices?
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Trisection by a cone

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Hyperboloids of one sheet


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