I use to use Animation Master a lot. They made a big deal of the fact that shey could render patches and surfaces instead of polygons.

Are these the same things as surfaces in solid modeling? Or are they just using similar terms?

thanks

Hi Shaun, yes they're similar although not quite exactly the same.

Both of them are splines, but there are a variety of different kinds of splines, MoI surfaces use a spline type called NURBS and Animation Master uses its own slightly different kind of spline patch.

But they are both similar in that the spline surfaces are truly curved objects.

- Michael