It showed the curve "melted" away from its control points gradually as order was increased by 1, but i'm not sure, it could have been weighting of control points. The search did not help me. Anyone? It's from well over 6 months ago.

Hi Kevin,

> It showed the curve "melted" away from its control points
> gradually as order was increased by 1, but i'm not sure, it
> could have been weighting of control points.

Was it maybe one of these ones talking about the Conic command?

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2746.14
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2746.4


Otherwise if you want some general background and diagrams about how NURBS works, maybe one of these reference articles:

http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_25/schneider.html
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs563/talks/nurbs.html


Also a bit of description about curve degree here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=290.8


- Michael