 Veronese surface

The complete system of quadratic forms maps ${\mathbb{P}}^2$ to a smooth surface of degree four in ${\mathbb{P}}^5$. The six coordinates are $x_0^2,x_0{x}_1,x_0{x}_2,x_1^2,x_1{x}_2,x_2^2$. It occurs as a degree-two image of a K3 surface and, after taking a projective cone, in the plane-quintic exception to the K3 linear system dichotomies.

The Veronese surface is a well-known example in algebraic geometry, and it is often studied in relation to the projective geometry of higher-dimensional spaces. Specifically, it is defined as a two-dimensional algebraic surface that can be embedded in projective space. The Veronese surface can be constructed by considering the image of the projective plane under the Veronese embedding.