Can Flamm's Paraboloid be described by Cartesian equations?

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I would like to know if there exist any equations in Cartesian coordinates that describe the shape in three dimensions of Flamm´s paraboloid and if you can write them to me because I have searched for them but I can’t find any specific equations of what I want. I suppose that this shape would depend to the mass and the density (or radius) of the spherical object that produces the deformation of space.
 
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If you work in cylindrical polars and identify the ##r## and ##\phi## coordinates with the Schwarzschild ##r## and ##\phi## coordinates then circles around the origin are the right size automatically. That leaves you to pick a function ##z (r)## so that the distance-squared in the surface associated with a small change in ##r## (Pythagoras) is the same as the distance-squared in the Schwarzschild metric associated with a small change in ##r## (read from the metric). A little algebra should get you an expression for ##dz/dr## which should integrate easily enough.
 
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