Miter Surface

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A Quartic Surface named after its resemblance to the liturgical headdress worn by bishops and given by the equation

$\begin{displaymath} 4x^2(x^2+y^2+z^2)-y^2(1-y^2-z^2)=0. \end{displaymath}$

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