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Parametrizations and Plane Curves

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The chapter is devoted to the study of plane curves from the point of view of differential geometry. We focus our attention to classical curves and also on conics, and provide examples and other applications in architectural elements of the mathematical theory.

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    We thank Kim Williams for completing this information.

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    A more general procedure to obtain the parametrization by lines of a given irreducible conic and other classes of curves can be found in Section 4.6 of Sendra et al. (2007).

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Lastra, A. (2021). Parametrizations and Plane Curves. In: Parametric Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. Mathematics and the Built Environment, vol 5. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81317-8_1

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