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Students' Work: Planar Sections of a Torus

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The intersection of a torus and a plane parallel to its axis is called a spiric section. These curves were first considered by the Greek mathematician Perseus. Among these curves are the Cassini ovals and the lemniscate of Bernoulli.

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