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The metamorphic design space was disjointed into eight distinct subspaces with the same number of cusps and nodes plotting the bifurcating and strict surfaces in a cartesian coordinate system      {   \u03b8   \u03c0 1       , \u03b8     \u03c0 2       , d   4   }     . 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