Conoid




In geometry a conoid (Greek: κωνος cone and -ειδης similar) is a ruled surface, whose rulings (lines) fulfill the additional conditions
Because of (1) any conoid is a Catalan surface and can be represented parametrically by
Any curve with fixed parameter
is a ruling,
describes the directrix and the vectors
are all parallel to the directrix plane. The planarity of the vectors
can be represented by