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This chapter deals with plane cubic curves, ‘twisted’ cubic curves in three dimensions, cubic surfaces, and the various canonical and parametric forms of these constructs. The theory of the 27 lines on a general cubic surface is presented in detail.
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Lord, E. (2013). Cubic Figures. In: Symmetry and Pattern in Projective Geometry. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4631-5_5
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