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PASSAGE 1 (excerpt): "The term geometric modeling first came into use in the early 1970s with the rapidly developing computer graphics and computer-aided design and manufacturing technologies. It refers to a collection of methods used to define the shape and other geometric characteristics of an object. Geometric modeling embraces an area often called computational geometry and extends beyond this to the newer field of solid modeling, creating an elegant synthesis of geometry and the computer."

Question: Computational geometry ----------.