[PythonCAD] Looking for info on NURBS

Art Haas ahaas at airmail.net
Tue Oct 21 10:36:55 EDT 2003


On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:16:03AM -0500, Art Haas wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Can anyone provide some links for background on NURBS? A search on
> Google has many links, but many of them are not very helpful - links
> to college classes, references to papers, etc. If you have a favorite
> link handy please pass it along.
> 
> I did find this link on Apple's site:
> 
> http://devworld.apple.com/dev/techsupport/develop/issue25/schneider.html
> 
> This page provides a good background of NURBS, with equations and
> pictures that illustrate how they operate. This page was written for Mac
> programmers who were writting QuickDraw3D code.
> 

A quick response to myself and the list ...

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/B-Spline.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NURBSCurve.html

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