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This paper is devoted to the investigation of selected situations when the computation of projective (and other) equivalences of algebraic varieties can be efficiently solved with the help of finding projective equivalences of finite sets on the projective line. In particular, we design a unifying approach that finds for two algebraic varieties X, Y from special classes an associated set of automorphisms of the projective line (the so called good candidate set) consisting of candidates for the construction of possible mappings X → Y . The functionality of the designed method is presented on computing projective equivalences of rational curves, on determining projective equivalences of rational ruled surfaces, on the detection of affine transformations between planar curves, and on computing similarities between two implicitly given algebraic surfaces. When possible, symmetries of given shapes are also discussed as special cases.

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In this paper we study situations when non-rational parameterizations of planar or space curves as results of certain geometric operations or constructions are obtained, in general. We focus especially on such cases in which one can identify a rational mapping which is a double cover of a rational curve. Hence, we deal with rational, elliptic or hyperelliptic curves that are birational to plane curves in the Weierstrass form and thus they are square-root parameterizable. We design a simple algorithm for computing an approximate (piecewise) rational parametrization using topological graphs of the Weierstrass curves. Predictable shapes reflecting a number of real roots of a univariate polynomial and a possibility to approximate easily the branches separately play a crucial role in the approximation algorithm. Our goal is not to give a comprehensive list of all such operations but to present at least selected interesting cases originated in geometric modelling and to show a unifying feature of the formulated method. We demonstrate our algorithm on a number of examples.