Abstract
Early in the development of ∥-coords, the representation of surfaces was attempted by simply plotting the surface’s points as polygonal lines. Except for very special surfaces(i.e.,spheres,ellipsoids),thisturnedouttobeevenmorehopelessthanwhat happened with line-curves. The next improvement was the surface representation by the envelopeof these polygonal lines.
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Inselberg, A. (2009). Hypersurfaces in ℝN . In: Parallel Coordinates. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68628-8_9
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