Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> AFAIK, Non-Rational Bicubic B-Splines (NURBS is singular, so would the
> plural be NURBSes?)

gee, you just copied-and-pasted my misspelling.  It's Non-Uniform Rational
B-Splines. :P

> Mathematically, they're bicubic splines, so this is the name
> that POV-Ray used originally.  NURBS, as a name, is just a little more
> specific (specifying that they are non-rational, and the specific type
> of spline).

exactly, or so i read in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurbs

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