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Hands-on Tropical Geometry

Algebraic Geometry 2023-04-21 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

This is a guide on how to create 3d printable models of tropical surfaces, curves, and combinations thereof. It uses Polymake to construct bounded models of the tropical objects, and OpenSCAD to thicken and export them to any common 3D printable file format.

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@article{arxiv.2304.10130,
  title  = {Hands-on Tropical Geometry},
  author = {Herbert Gangl and Yue Ren and Ziva Urbancic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.10130},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

5 pages, 9 figures. This guide was published in the Computeralgebra Rundbrief (March 2023). Any questions are welcome

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