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1. datpif+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-03-06 13:32:05
If it was marketing they didn't seem to do a great job... Very little online except for mentions of "NURBS", and this thread.

It's not intuitively obvious to me how a rasterizer accelerator would render NURBS surfaces at all (edit: without just approximating the surface with triangles/quads in software, which any competing card could also do)

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2. rzzzt+Dw1[view] [source] 2023-03-06 19:45:42
>>datpif+(OP)
I was also wondering about this. I only remember two vaguely related mentions, both are from a bit later time and one of them turned out not to be NURBS but Bézier patches :)

- Curved surfaces in Quake 3: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/implementing-curve...

- Rhino 3D support: https://www.rhino3d.com/features/nurbs/

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