## The Inner Curve of a Torus Viewed Obliquely

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elendiastarman
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### The Inner Curve of a Torus Viewed Obliquely

An orthographic rendering of a torus from a 45-degree angle is shown below:

EDIT: Fixed

What is the curve seen on the inside? I'm sorta leaning towards ellipse, but I'm not entirely sure.
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genious999
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### Re: The Inner Curve of a Torus Viewed Obliquely

Seems we don't have permission to view your image.

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### Re: The Inner Curve of a Torus Viewed Obliquely

Whoops...I need to put it on a published page... -.-
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DjinnKahn
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### Re: The Inner Curve of a Torus Viewed Obliquely

I think if you continue to rotate the torus, the shape will be like a lemon, with two "sharp" points, which is clearly not an ellipse.

Hmm, actually I think there is a simpler way to get the same shape. Think of the torus as the shaped carved out by a sphere moving in a circle. When viewed obliquely, the circle appears as an ellipse. Now carve out a shaped with a sphere (circle) moving on this ellipse.

So, just draw an ellipse, and color all the points within a certain distance of the ellipse.

I guess this is the Minkowski sum of an ellipse outline and a circle?

zohaa3492
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i agree with you