duocylinder
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Geometry
- Bounding 3-manifolds
- The ridge
- Projections
- Relation to other shapes
- See also
- References
- External links
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The duocylinder, also called the double cylinder or the bidisc, is a geometric object embedded in 4-dimensional Euclidean space, defined as the Cartesian product of two disks of respective radii r1 and r2:D = \left\{ (x,y,z,w) \, \left| \, x^2+y^2\leq r_1^2,\ z^2+w^2\leq r_2^2 \right. \right\}
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “duocylinder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.