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BryceSummers

Would anybody like to clearly explain the differences between these representations and what they are each good and bad for?

dvernet

Implicit: Good for testing if a point is inside of a surface

Explicit: Good for finding points on / sampling a surface

Discrete: Good for approximating a surface

Symmetric: Good for transforming a surface / moving it in space

Curvature: Simple and implicitly describes shape of surface

Linguistic: Good for intuition

BryceSummers

@dvernet Sounds good to me!

Symmetric can be useful for surfaces or revolution and Lathes

Symmetric can also be useful for Non-Photo realistic Rendering such as cut-out diagrams.

Tomography representations are useful for working with real world data that needs to be reconstructed, such as in CT Scans