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The process of implicitization generates an implicit representation of a curve or surface from a given parametric one. This process is potentially interesting for applications in Computer Aided Design, where the robustness and efficiency of intersection algorithm can be improved by simultaneously considering implicit and parametric representations. This paper gives an brief survey of the existing techniques for approximate implicitization of hyper surfaces. In addition it describes a framework for the approximate implicitization of space curves.
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Aigner, M., Jüttler, B., Poteaux, A. (2012). Approximate Implicitization of Space Curves. In: Langer, U., Paule, P. (eds) Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing. Texts & Monographs in Symbolic Computation. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0794-2_1
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