“…However, unlike piecewise parametric surfaces, implicit surfaces are not akin to local shape changes interactively. Also, rendering an implicitly-defined algebraic surface poses some difficulties because it requires its preliminary triangulation [RV85, PK89,Gom03], particularly for implicit surfaces defined by high degree polynomial functions; hence, the low degree algebraic surface patches or algebraic splines used for geometric modeling [Baj88, BX97, LPP06, CCD00, War89, WZ00].…”