> he assured me that NURBs were going to be the dominant rendering model
Wow, this sounds like those little cases where a few different decisions could have easily led us down into an alternate parallel world :)
Can someone expand on why NURBs didn't/don't win out against polygons?
Could this be like AI/ML/VR/Functional Programming, where the idea had been around for decades but could only be practically implemented now after we had sufficient hardware and advances in other fields?
Wow, this sounds like those little cases where a few different decisions could have easily led us down into an alternate parallel world :)
Can someone expand on why NURBs didn't/don't win out against polygons?
Could this be like AI/ML/VR/Functional Programming, where the idea had been around for decades but could only be practically implemented now after we had sufficient hardware and advances in other fields?