Lateral Surface Nets of Cones, Cylinders, and Frustums with Shortest Paths

2020-05-16 13:42
This GeoGebra example demonstrates the lateral surface development (nets) of cones, cylinders, and frustums, and explores the shortest curve (geodesic) between two points on these surfaces of revolution. By unfolding 3D surfaces into 2D planes, it applies planar geometry methods to solve shortest path problems. The construction uses parametric curves (CurveCartesian), tangents, vectors, segments,