Description
surf-alggeo-doc - visualization of real algebraic geometry -- manual
Distribution: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
Repository: Ubuntu Universe i386
Package name: surf-alggeo-doc
Package version: 1.0.6+ds
Package release: 2
Package architecture: all
Package type: deb
Installed size: 343 B
Download size: 173.62 KB
Official Mirror: archive.ubuntu.com
Surf is a script driven tool to visualize some real algebraic geometry:
plane algebraic curves, algebraic surfaces and hyperplane sections of
surfaces.
The algorithms should be stable enough not to be confused by curve/surface
singularities in codimension greater than one and the degree of the surface
or curve. This has been achieved quite a bit. Curves of degree up to 30 and
surfaces of degree up to 20 have been drawn successfully. However, there are
examples of curves/surfaces of lower degree where surf fails to produce
perfect images. This happens especially if the equation of the curve/surface
is not reduced. Best results are achieved using reduced equations. On the other
hand, surf displays the Fermat-curves accurately for degree up to 98.
Surf is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
This package provides the manual for the script driven tool surf; it also
contains some script samples.