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I'll present recent work with Sylvia Serfaty concerning motion by curvature. The level-set formulation of this interface evolution law is a degenerate parabolic equation. We show it can be interpreted as the value function of a deterministic two-person game. This result is unexpected, because the value function of a deterministic control problem is usually a first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equation.