Lamé's special quartic

Lamé's special quartic

Lamé's special quartic is the graph of the equation

:x^4 + y^4 = a^4

where a > 0. It looks like a rounded square with "sides" of length 2a and centered on the origin. This curve is a special case of a super ellipse.


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