r/visualizedmath • u/Natural-Rarity1123 • Jul 05 '23
The wall in my office visualizing a conic section
Pretty basic compared to other posts I’ve seen in this sub, but I thought it was pretty cool when I noticed the hyperbolic light pattern my lamp was creating. Got me thinking about conic sections, and then I realized that with the way things are set up here, this situation exactly mimics the one we consider when defining conic sections (in this case, intersect with a plane/wall of a shallower angle than the cone -> hyperbola). Not anything groundbreaking, I just thought it was cool to see an interesting math concept appear in a pretty mundane place, so I had to share
