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Pierre Bézier, Paul de Casteljau, and the Curves That Made Computer-Aided Design Smooth

Automotive CAD needed curves that engineers could shape interactively and manufacture precisely. Work by Paul de Casteljau at Citroën and Pierre Bézier at Renault supplied the geometric machinery.

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