Plane to cylinder

A plane can be transformed into a cylinder by defining a circle in the x- and y-coordinates. The plane and cylinder, both defined by the same periods, can be constructed out of the same two-dimensional plane. The extruded cosine and sine curves also share a common two-dimensional unrolled surface.

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