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1. Representation of Curves and Surfaces

We first introduce three forms to represent geometric objects mathematically. They are the parametric, implicit and explicit forms. Implicit and explicit forms are often referred to as nonparametric forms. Then we briefly review the representation of curves and surfaces in Bézier and B-spline form and treat the special properties associated with each.



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