Special Quartic Surfaces
- Dupin cyclides
- The Fermat quartic, given by x4 + y4 + z4 + w4 =0 (an example of a K3 surface) – and tiled by 12 octagons, in the Dyck tiling (named after Walther von Dyck).
- K3 surfaces
- Klein quartic
- Kummer surface
- Plücker surface
- Weddle surface
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