In classical algebraic geometry , a trope is a special tangent plane to an algebraic
surface . In particular, a trope of a quartic surface
is a plane tangent to the surface along a conic section .
The conic section itself is sometimes called a trope
conic.
The 16 nodes and 16 tropes of a 16-nodal Kummer surface
form the Kummer configuration .
See also Conic Section ,
Kummer Configuration ,
Kummer Surface ,
Quartic
Surface ,
Tangent Plane
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References Hudson, R. W. H. T. Kummer's Quartic Surface.
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Trope." From MathWorld https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trope.html
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