My apologies if someone has already answered this. The term is an acronym which
refers to Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline. It allows for modeling of organic objects
using curved surfaces. They have been employed quite well in the modeler for
Lightwave 3D and other modelers as well.

RG

Simon de Vet wrote:

> Jan Danielsson wrote:
>
> > What are NURBS? Everyone seems to want them, so I guess it's something good.
> > But what?! :-)
>
> I don't know WHAT they are, but they are very cool. Learn be experimentation...
> try the Rhino modeller demo at www.rhino.com
>
> In practical terms, you can use them to do stuff normally done by bezier
> patches, but better, and nicer. Wheeee!
>
> :)
>
> Simon
> http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet

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