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surf is a an open source computer program written to visualize some real algebraic geometry: plane algebraic curves, space curves, and algebraic surfaces in a three-dimensional real affine space.

Surf is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Surf was developed in 1996-1997 at the Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, and since 1997 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz.

surf provides a C-style programming language for the description of geometric objects.

surf was written at the suggestion of Wolf Barth by Stephan Endrass, Hans Huelf, Ruediger Oertel, Kai Schneider, Ralf Schmitt, and Johannes Beigel.

Distribution

surf is packaged in the Debian Linux and derivatives (such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint) as surf-alggeo and in the Fedora Linux as surf-geometry.

It is also provided with the SageMath project.

Derivatives and forks

There are various derivatives of surf such as surfer which is a project under the direction of Gert-Martin Greuel.

Barth sextic surface vusualized with surf.

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References


Category:Free educational software
Category:Free mathematics software
Category:Mathematical software

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