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    In geometry, a hyperboloid of revolution, sometimes called a circular hyperboloid, is the surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around one of its principal...
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    Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures, such as towers, where the...
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    In geometry, the hyperboloid model, also known as the Minkowski model after Hermann Minkowski, is a model of n-dimensional hyperbolic geometry in which...
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    This page is a list of hyperboloid structures. These were first applied in architecture by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939). Shukhov built...
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    projection of the hyperboloid model (Hy) with as center the center of the hyperboloid (O) and the projection plane tangent to the hyperboloid. Given two distinct...
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  • another on-shell theorem. Mass shell is a synonym for mass hyperboloid, meaning the hyperboloid in energy–momentum space describing the solutions to the...
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    The Garin Death Ray, also known as The Death Box and The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Russian: Гиперболоид инженера Гарина), is a science fiction novel...
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    some regions, where they locally resemble the hyperbolic plane. The hyperboloid model of hyperbolic geometry provides a representation of events one...
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  • the hyperboloid model of the hyperbolic plane, the hyperboloid is referred to as a pseudosphere. This usage of the word is because the hyperboloid can...
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    Cooling towers vary in size from small roof-top units to very large hyperboloid structures that can be up to 200 metres (660 ft) tall and 100 metres...
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    form the hyperboloid structure are usually anchored at each end by bending the tip into a groove or notch in the housing. Whilst hyperboloid contacts...
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    distinct lines that lie on the surface. The hyperbolic paraboloid and the hyperboloid of one sheet are doubly ruled surfaces. The plane is the only surface...
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    hyperboloid model is immediate through the action of the connected component of S O ( n , 1 ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {SO} (n,1)} on the hyperboloid....
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    engineer and architect Vladimir Shukhov, is the world's first diagrid hyperboloid structure. The tower is today located in the former estate of Yury Nechaev-Maltsov...
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    the surface of revolution swept out by L is a hyperboloid of one sheet. For instance, the three hyperboloids visible in the illustration can be formed in...
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  • Oblate spheroid Prolate spheroid Ellipsoid Cone (geometry) Hyperboloid of one sheet Hyperboloid of two sheets Hyperbolic paraboloid (a ruled surface) Paraboloid...
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    everywhere. The Gaussian curvature can also be negative, as in the case of a hyperboloid or the inside of a torus. Gaussian curvature is an intrinsic measure...
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    circular section is a circle on a quadric surface (such as an ellipsoid or hyperboloid). It is a special plane section of the quadric, as this circle is the...
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  • a complex plane with the real line. For split-quaternions there are hyperboloids of hyperbolic and imaginary units that generate split-complex or ordinary...
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    related to the hyperboloid model projectively. If we have a point [t, x1, ..., xn] on the upper sheet of the hyperboloid of the hyperboloid model, thereby...
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  • The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Russian: Гиперболоид инженера Гарина, translit. Giperboloid inzhenera Garina) also abbreviated as Engineer Garin is...
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  • quadrics) and five non-degenerate quadrics (ellipsoid, paraboloids and hyperboloids), which are detailed in the following tables. The eight remaining quadrics...
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    From left to right: a surface of negative Gaussian curvature (hyperboloid), a surface of zero Gaussian curvature (cylinder), and a surface of positive...
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    to as "the saddle surface" or "the standard saddle surface") and the hyperboloid of one sheet. The Pringles potato chip or crisp is an everyday example...
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    Cathedral of Brasília (category Hyperboloid structures)
    and was completed and dedicated on May 31, 1970. The cathedral is a hyperboloid structure constructed from 16 concrete columns weighing 90 tons each...
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    Concave ellipsoid Concave cylinder Hyperboloid surface = 0 Concave cylinder Plane Convex cylinder > 0 Hyperboloid surface Convex cylinder Convex ellipsoid...
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  • A hyperboloid of one sheet, which is a surface of revolution contains a pencil of circles which is mapped onto a pencil of circles. A hyperboloid of...
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    Shukhov Tower (category Hyperboloid structures)
    during the Russian Civil War. Vladimir Shukhov invented the world's first hyperboloid structure in the year 1890. Later he wrote a book, Rafters, in which...
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    Vladimir Shukhov (category Hyperboloid structures)
    geometry, are known today as hyperboloids of revolution. Shukhov developed not only many varieties of light-weight hyperboloid towers and roof systems, but...
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    Sagrada Família (category Hyperboloid structures)
    central columns of porphyry supporting a great hyperboloid surrounded by two rings of twelve hyperboloids (currently under construction). The central vault...
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