[Verse-dev] The Common Denominator is NURBS

[Esben Stien]

Joe Eagar <joeedh at gmail.com> writes:

> I seem to remember reading that nurbs are based on b-splines and
> subdivision surfaces are based on bezier patches mathematically.

Almost true. NURBS are b-splines, though non uniform and rational;).
SDS would be bezier surfaces, to my understanding. The bezier curve is
not able to describe a circle, f.ex, exactly; not even a piecewise
bezier curve can do that.

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