Today, we present the standard picture which appears in any algebraic geometry text book in the form of an animation: the blowup of the affine plane in the origin. Over each point of the plane there is a unique point in the blowup except for the origin where we have a whole line, called the exceptional line (green). The points on the exceptional line correspond to tangent directions of the affine plane in the origin. Since each lines through the origin passes it in a different direction, the corresponding lines on the blowup do not intersect.
This also allows us to find a smooth curve (blue) on the blowup that lies over the singular blue curve in the plane. The singular point of the plane curve has two preimages since the curve passes through the origin in two different directions (white).
If C is any singular curve lying on a smooth surface it is a classical theorem, that one can find a smooth curve D mapping to C, by iterating this process.
This film was made by Hans-Christian v. Bothmer and Oliver Labs using surfex.
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