What is the difference between the graphs of $z=xy$ and $z=x^2-y^2$?

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What is the difference between the shape of the graphs of $z=xy$ and $z=x^2-y^2$?

Are they different or just rotated? Kind of hard to confirm, because I know you can transform them.

But I don't know how or how to show that one is the transformation (rotation) of the other.

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Let $u=x+y, v=x-y$. Then $z=uv$. So one graph is simply a rotation of the other, magnified by $2$ (to normalize $u$ and $v$).