It's a really big topic, but we'll see how far the journey takes us ey?
Things get even more complicated, because with surface modelling, you'll be taking curves to the 3rd dimension as well (and match them with other curves/ surfaces).jnxd wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 6:38 pm Our biggest conflict of ideas seems to come from the fact that I'm looking at B-splines by themselves, while you are (rightfully) looking at them as a connector between two curves. My understanding was higher degree curves tend to misbehave a lot, but if classical wisdom mentions using them I'm wrong somewhere.
So when I say worse curvature, for product design, it means worse reflections. If the reflections of the product are less smooth, it looks less nice. If you are in doubt about something, try to look it up with the correct terminology on the McNeel forums or Alias forum. For example, single span vs multi-span
Here's another explanation that may help you understand the idea behind the tools (from the Alias employee): https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/alias-fo ... -p/7828578.