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From: "Jérôme M. Berger"
Date: 7 Sep 2007 15:24:11
Message: <46e1a55b$1@news.povray.org>
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Warp wrote:
> "J�r�me M. Berger" <jeb### [at] freefr> wrote:
>>         ?? Pixie is a renderman compliant REYES renderer. That means it has
>> true mathematical surfaces (including true Bezier patches, which POV
>> doesn't have btw).
> 
>   AFAIK "bicubic patch" and "bezier patch" are synonyms (but not to be
> confused with "NURBS", which is a different thing).
> 
>   POV-Ray does have true Bezier patches.
> 
	According to the documentation, POV converts its Bezier patches
into meshes before rendering them, which is precisely the gripe
nemesis seems to have with other renderers...

http://povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/290/

		Jerome
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