Another question. What exactly is meant by the term 'patch'?

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Nekar
Chris Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> In article <3A692D00.35295741@hotmail.com>, Ben Chambers
> <bdc### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
> > NURBS = Non Uniform Rational B-Splines, aka Bezier Patches, Bicubic
> > Patches, etc.  It's all the same stuff.
>
> Depends on what you mean by "same stuff"...they are *not* identical as
> far as I know, but they are all spline based objects. "Bezier patch" and
> "bicubic patch" seem to be used interchangeably, though. And MegaPOV
> supports a "rational bezier patch" object.
>
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