A general quartic surface defined by
(1)
(Gray 1997, p. 314). The above two images correspond to , and , respectively.
Additional cases are illustrated above.
The "rounded cube" case corresponding to is a superellipsoid
with volume
(2)
where
is the gamma function .
The volume of the case
is given by
where
(5)
is the real
part of
and
is a Bessel function of the first kind
(E. W. Weisstein and M. Trott, pers. comm., Nov. 9, 2008), which
can probably be expressed in closed form in terms of bivariate hypergeometric functions.
The related surface
(6)
for
an even integer is also considered by Gray (1997, p. 292) and is a special case
of the superellipsoid .
See also Chmutov Surface ,
Cube ,
Superellipsoid ,
Tooth
Surface
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References Banchoff, T. F. "Computer Graphics Tools for Rendering Algebraic Surfaces and for Geometry of Order." In Geometric
Analysis and Computer Graphics: Proceedings of a Workshop Held May 23-25, 1988
(Eds. P. Concus, R. Finn, D. A. Hoffman). New York: Springer-Verlag,
pp. 31-37, 1991. Goursat, E. "Étude des surfaces qui
admettent tous les plans de symétrie d'un polyèdre régulier."
Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. 4 , 159-2000, 1897. Gray,
A. Modern
Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, 2nd ed. Boca
Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 292 and 314, 1997.
Cite this as:
Weisstein, Eric W. "Goursat's Surface."
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