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  Re: Convert Heightfield-like data to Nurbs?  
From: ingo
Date: 7 Apr 2003 12:48:16
Message: <Xns9356BFB68726Fseed7@povray.org>
in news:asm29vgr8n2eu5ru39hkeiuul1hcqvf62q@4ax.com ABX wrote:

> You mean akima_spline with requirement of 5 control points? Found it.

Don't know about the 5 points. It is said that the Akima spline looks more 
"natural" or "hand drawn" than other splines.

> Any other spline type expectation ? References on www ?

X-spline:
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~schlick/DOC/sig1.html
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~jab/software.html#xsplines

Tension, Continuity & Bias (TCB) or Kochanek-Bartels spline
http://www.cubic.org/~submissive/sourcerer/hermite.htm#ma5.3


Ingo


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