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  Fig. 3.18a-b : Tangent vectors and tangent planes to a curved surface. a) Tangent vector to the elliptic paraboloid in the direction of a u-parameter curve. b) Tangent plane, P(u, v), to the elliptic paraboloid with unit normal vector, N.  
         
 
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