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Vic | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yes. I can cut a cylinder or natural cone perpendicularly to get a circle, while other angles would yield an ellipse
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ac918471 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Shoot, just read this and realised that it makes no difference for a sphere.  https://primal.net/e/note1fgpdhma589puznxd3m462nd8v0kvph03nkfqzugn90rnd5mxs6hqul5s7l
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ac918471 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I made a mistake interpreting 'in two', but came to realise it is irrelevant.