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From: as@progress.COM (Amitabh  Shukla)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: curve represenation
Summary: what is the industry standard?
Keywords: bezier or b-spline
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Date: 14 Nov 90 16:05:28 GMT
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 I posted the following article in comp.graphics yesterday.
 
> 
>  I am trying to poll peoples opinion on what there preference is 
>  when choosing between spline or bezier to represent curves. I would
>  appreciate if you could tell the reason for choosing one over another.
> 
> Are there any public domain software on any of the two methods for
> representing curves? If there is can someone tell me from where to get it.
> 
> 

	and people complained and I was being to vague. I will be more clear
now.

What I want to know is what is the industry standard to store information about
curves? The choices being bezier curve or uniform/non-uniform b-spline represenation.


	Thanks 
				amitabh


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