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20 Apr 2024 01:36:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Support of NURBS-Surfaces  
From: Chambers
Date: 15 Nov 2009 15:45:21
Message: <4b006861$1@news.povray.org>
H. Karsten wrote:
> As you all know, PovRay supports bezier-patch surfaces.
> 
> A support of NURBS would be great! :)
> 
> see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_rational_B-spline
> 
> Holger

It's easy enough to write a macro to handle streams of patches for you, 
if you already have the data.  The last time I wrote one, I think I 
finished it in under an hour.

The problem, of course, is getting the data in the first place. 
Creating NURBS via text editors is not easy.

...Chambers


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