Earl

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What coding will display a spherical cap of an arbitrary sphere (an arbitrarily located centre and arbitrary radius) where the cap covers an arbitrary solid angle and the radius to the cap's centre is any arbitrary radius of the sphere?

Assume the sphere is defined by its radius and its azimuth and polar angles.

The following are the equation and plot3d of the minimal surface named Catalan:

Catalan := [alpha-sin(alpha)*cosh(beta), 1-cos(alpha)*cosh(beta), 4*sin((1/2)*alpha)*sinh((1/2)*beta)]
plot3d(Catalan, alpha = 0 .. 2*Pi, beta = -3 .. 3, scaling = constrained, title = "Catalan's surface", titlefont = [Courier, bold, 14])

I would like to color and thicken the edge of this surface to emphasize what I presume is the wire which frames the soap film which forms the surface.

Contourplot3d only shows contours at constant values of the z coordinate, however the plot3d display with style option "surface with line" clearly shows the surface's edge contour, among others.

Given the surface equation, is there any way to display the surface edge programmatically e.g. as a spacecurve? 

Without my knowingly changing any Maple parameters, the execution time values of variables appearing in the window displayed when a DEBUG statement is executed have recently started to be listed at the end of my worksheet.

If I have been doing extensive debugging this list can be quite lengthy and a nuisance to erase.

Why did this listing suddenly begin and how can I stop it?

 The font plot option has no color parameter. 

The commands below are from a response by Carl Love to a question posed on February 27, 2016.

Variable t is not mentioned in the plot of f. Does t assume one or more particular values in the construction of the plot?

When t is given a specific value before executing the plot command, the resulting plot appears to be independent of t's value.

What is the logic behind the plot's construction?

f:= cos(2*t/m) + cos(2*(t+5)/m):
plot('maximize'(f), m= 1..10);

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