Question is: Given a surface in both parametric p(u,v) and implicit function f(p)=0 forms,
Prove that the surface normal of the parametric form is parallel to the normal of the implicit form.
Now I know for implicit it is (df/dx, df/dy, df/dz) and for parametric it is dp/du x dp/dv but I am not sure how to equate them. I think I have to use the chain rule in some way to manipulate the df/dx to get it to equal c*(dy/du dz/dv - dz/du dy/dv) but I’m not sure how.
I have some alternate reasoning:
Implicit function normal = (df/dx, df/dy, df/dz), using chain rule we have that:
0 = df/du = n dot dp/du
0 = df/dv = n dot dp/dv
because of the chain rule
df/du = 0 (I think???) because for all u and v, f(p) = 0 (I think by definition), so df/du and df/dv =0 must equal 0 (I am not sure if that is solid enough reasoning).
For parametric it is N = dp/du cross product dp/dv. So it is parallel to both dp/du and dp/dv, so is n (implicit normal) so they must be parallel? is that solid