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  Re: NURBS in PovRay?  
From: Cliff Bowman
Date: 26 Aug 1999 20:13:01
Message: <37c5d845.1291862@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:03:49 -0400, Charles <cfu### [at] enternet> wrote:

>TonyB wrote:
>> 
>> > Wha....? I thought bicubic patches *were* a specific subset of NURBs?
>> > General NURB support, therefore, would be more flexible, by doing
>> 
>> Sorry, I just want to clear up one thing. NURBS is not plural for NURB.
>> NURBS is the acronym for Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline. The correct
>> pluralization is NURBSs, no matter how ulgy it sounds.
>
>
>Oooch, sssss, my Precious.... very well, good maasssster. NURBSs it
>isss then. Yesss, indeed, Precious. They modelled it with NURBSs, 
>they did.(gollum). We thinks they shouldn't haves acronyms ending
>in sss, but master sezs, and Smeagol promised to be very good...
>yesss...
>
>
Would "Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline Thingys" have been much of an
improvement?

Running...


Cheers,

Cliff Bowman
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