Jeff Garzik <jga### [at] poboxcom> wrote:
: Patch wizards -- are there any fundamental reasons why NURBS would be
: difficult to implement in POV?  Perhaps I could take a crack at working
: up a nurbs patch.

  I have absolutely no idea about the mathematics involved in NURBS
calculation, but I can speculate and say that those renderers which use
real NURBS (bmrt, renderman) are not raytracers while povray is. Maybe
calculating the intersection of a ray and a NURBS is not easy and/or fast?
I don't know...
  (Note: Maybe I'm wrong with bmrt, but AFAIK renderman is not a raytracer)

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