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Tony Finch

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I am a Unix system developer from Cambridge. I work on BIND9 at the Internet Systems Consortium ( isc.org ) .

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Constructing a Four-Point Egg

For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I have been investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to construct the “four point egg”. I think it is a nicer shape than Moss’s…