Great ellipse
Great ellipse
Ellipse on a spheroid centered on its origin.
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Spheroid
Surface formed by rotating an ellipse.
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Shortest paths on a bounded deformed sphere-like quadric surface.
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Line of longitude.
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Spherical geometry analog of a straight line.
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Surface formed by rotating an ellipse.
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Ellipse
Plane curve.
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