Heart Surface

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A heart-shaped surface given by the sextic equation

 (x^2+9/4y^2+z^2-1)^3-x^2z^3-9/(80)y^2z^3=0

(Taubin 1993, 1994). The figures above show a ray-traced rendering (left) and the y=0 cross section (right) of the surface.

A slight variation of the same surface is given by

 (2x^2+2y^2+z^2-1)^3-1/(10)x^2z^3-y^2z^3=0

(Nordstrand, Kuska 2004).

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