Hyperbola Bar

If you take a bar and rotate it through an angle at a distance, it passes through a plane in a hyperbola. This perhaps surprising fact is demonstrated here.

The effect isn't just a curiosity; it is useful. For example, the smoothly curving cooling towers of a nuclear power plant can be constructed using straight (easily fabricated) structural members.

Screenshot.

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1.0.02014-01-28

Original release location on pygame.org: http://www.pygame.org/project-Hyperbola+Bar-2879-4686.html

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