In Rhino you can turn off and on the display of ISO lines, which cleans up the appearance of your objects. Even though you cannot see the iso lines at times does not mean that they are not there.
Ref the attached image from the Rhino training file set.
Just select the object and go to the Properties tab and check the 'Show surface isocurve'. This will make the "extra" complexity appear. I prefer to work with that off most of the time as I am dealing with non-organic surfacing. Is that what you are referring too?
If so, you can also turn on the points of a surface in MoI and where ever you see a line of points that you can edit along a surface is where you would see the ISO curves in Rhino when you have the box checked. Both Moi and Rhino have the same geometry in the files but Rhino shows it differently depending on the selection that you choose to use. In both though, if you show points you should see points to edit in the same spots. I think Rhino shows you the iso lines so if you are sculpting a surface model you can plan ahead better if you are going to need to modify surfaces. I generally do not use them as I am more of a sweep, loft, cut, union solid modeler by trade.
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