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A general quartic surface defined by

(Gray 1997, p. 314). The above two images correspond to , c = -1, and a = 0, b = -2, c = -1, respectively.
The related surface

for an even integer is considered by Gray (1997, p. 292), and might appropriately be called a superellipsoid.