This document discusses two types of parametric surfaces: Hermite bi-cubic surfaces and Bezier surfaces.
For Hermite bi-cubic surfaces, it describes that they connect four corner data points and eight tangent vectors at the corners, requiring 16 vectors (48 scalars) to determine the coefficients. The parametric equation uses polynomials and parameters u and v between 0 and 1.
For Bezier surfaces, it explains they are defined by a network of control points and basic polynomial functions of the parameters u and v. Key properties include passing through the first and last control points, convex hull containment, and affine invariance when transformations are applied to the control points.