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Parabola - is a conic section, the intersection of a right circular conical surface and a plane
parallel to a generating straight line of that surface.
Ellipse - is the finite or bounded case of a conic section, the geometric shape that results from
cutting a circular conical or cylindrical surface with an oblique plane (the other two cases being
the parabola and the hyperbola). It is also the locus of all points of the plane whose distances to
two fixed points add to the same constant. Ellipses also arise as images of a circle or a sphere
under parallel projection, and some cases of perspective projection. Indeed, circles are special
cases of ellipses. An ellipse is also the closed and bounded case of an implicit curve of degree 2,
and of a rational curve of degree 2.