Adding and Multiplying Gauss Surfaces

What do the two Gauss surfaces look like added together?

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And here is the Sine surface:
    

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Here is the Cosine surface added at each position to the Sine surface:
    

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As you see, it's just a shifted surface.  But remember what you were talking to Jonathan about regarding another way to look at circular functions?  Looking at Cos[θ] + Sin[θ] as little orthogonal vector-arrows each rotating, we figured out to just think of it as a static elbow making a single arrow at 45 degrees of magnitude Sqrt[2], so the same thing is happening adding Cos[2 θ] + Sin[2 θ] here, it's just a shifted, higher magnitude surface.
    
    Think also of AC currents being added at various phases.  This stuff is fun!

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Yup, it works (they overlap)!

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It looks like one surface because they overlap on themselves.

What do Gauss surfaces look like multiplied by each other?

Here are the Cosine and Sine surfaces multiplied together:

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And zooming out a little:

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Converted by Mathematica      October 14, 2003