Bagel Talk Resources

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This page contains resources for our talk:
Slicing Bagels: Plane Sections of Real and Complex Tori
presented at:

• the California Math Conference at Asilomar on December 4, 2004

Please send me e-mail: bic@cgl.ucsf.edu with comments and/or questions.

Presentations:

• Toric Sections a pdf file containing the slides from the first (real) part of the talk. (You may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader(TM).)
• Complex Tori a PowerPoint file containing the slides of the second (complex) part of the talk.
• Bipolar Coordinate Sketchs a Geometers Sketch Pad file showing ellipses, hyperbolas, and Cassinian ovals.

Misc Resources:

• Tor Olav's POVRAY page contains a ray traced Villarceau Circle
• Xah Lee has a beautiful collection of special plane curves.
• Eric W. Weisstein's MathWorld Torus article refers (and pictures) Villarceau circles.