A remark on parameterizing nonsingular cubic surfaces

Irene Polo-Blanco*, Jaap Top

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    Abstract

    Extending a geometric construction due to Sederberg and to Bajaj, Holt, and Netravali, an algorithm is presented for parameterizing a nonsingular cubic surface by polynomials of degree three. The fact that such a parametrization exists is classical. The present algorithm is, by its purely geometric nature, a very natural one. Moreover, it contains a practical way of finding all lines in an implicitly given cubic surface. Two explicit examples are presented, namely the classical Clebsch diagonal surface and the cubic Fermat surface. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)842-849
    Number of pages8
    JournalComputer aided geometric design
    Volume26
    Issue number8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Nov-2009

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