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Introduction: There are 9 lines on the Cayley surface. All of these lines are shown in this figure.
The Cayley surface is the dual variety of the Steiner surface. This means that the points of the Cayley surface correspond bijectively to the tangent planes of the Steiner surface (except that the correspondence is not bijective along finitely many subvarieties). For a discussion of specific features of the duality correspondence, please click on the Duality link at the left. |
The Java files used in this page were downloaded from the
Geometry Center webpage.
I generated the geometric data for this figure in March 2009.
Latest updates on May 10, 2018.
Prof. Joel Roberts
School of Mathematics
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA
Office: 109B Vincent Hall
e-mail: roberts@math.umn.edu
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