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Page 1 Copyright IntegrityWare, Inc. 2017 POWER SURFACING & RE help What is a POWER Surface? It is like freeform NURBS control polygon with some of the restrictions typically associated with NURBS removed. In the graphics industry it is also known as a Subdivision Surface object or SubD for short. The guys at Pixar originally devel-oped this technology for modeling organic forms and you can see it used in all of its animated films. Another way to think about a SubD is that it is like a soap bubble where the edg-es of the control polygon pull on the soap bubble. If you put two edges close together they exert more of a pulling effect and cause the soap bubble to be more curved. You can also increase the curvature of the soap bubble by in-creasing the weighting on an edge and pulling the soap bubble closer to that edge.
Page 1 Copyright © IntegrityWare, Inc. 2017 POWER SURFACING & RE HELP What is a Power Surface? It is like freeform NURBS control polygon with some of …
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