A septic surface is one defined by a polynomial equation of degree 7. The Labs septic, drawn above by Abdelaziz Nait Merzouk, is a septic surface with the maximum possible number of ordinary double points: that is, points where it looks like the origin of the cone in 3-dimensional space defined by \( x^2 + y^2 = z^2\).

A decic surface is one defined by a polynomial equation of degree 6. The Barth decic, drawn here by Abdelaziz Nait Merzouk, is the decic surface with the maximum possible number of ordinary double points: that is, points where it looks like the origin of the cone in 3-dimensional space defined by \(x^2 + y^2 = z^2 \).