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Equiangular surfaces, self-similar surfaces and the geometry of sea shells

History and Overview 2017-02-14 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We investigate three-dimensional surfaces where the normal vector forms a constant angle with the radius vector. These surfaces naturally extend equiangular (logarithmic) spirals in the plane.

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@article{arxiv.1702.03887,
  title  = {Equiangular surfaces, self-similar surfaces and the geometry of sea shells},
  author = {Khristo N. Boyadzhiev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.03887},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This paper was published ten years ago in the College Mathematics Journal (see below). We present here a copy with better illustrations