@InProceedings{agarwal_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2024.6, author = {Agarwal, Pankaj K. and Ezra, Esther and Sharir, Micha}, title = {{Lower Envelopes of Surface Patches in 3-Space}}, booktitle = {32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024)}, pages = {6:1--6:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-338-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2024}, volume = {308}, editor = {Chan, Timothy and Fischer, Johannes and Iacono, John and Herman, Grzegorz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.6}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-210772}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.6}, annote = {Keywords: Hierarchical cuttings, surface patches in 3-space, lower envelopes, charging scheme, gradation} }