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by qbrass 919 days ago
The important part is that compared to B-splines, it lets you reduce the data size of a closed form surface by reducing the amount of data needed to describe it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120710171813/http://cagd.cs.by...

The first 3 pictures explain it better than I can describe it, the rest is math going into how it's implemented.