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1020 Glossary
Track View. Curve Vie w doesn’t use soft-selection
like the Key Window, instead it has a specialized
Show Layered Edit command for the equivalent of
soft selection on biped keys.
CV
CVs ( control vertices) in the lattice surrounding a NURBS
sur face
Short for control v ertex .
In NURBS modeling, a vertex that controls a CV
Curve or CV Surface. The 3D location of each
CVaffectstheshapeofthecurveorsurface.CVs
aren’t constrained to lie on the curve or surface.
Each CV has a rational weight that can be used to
adjust the influence of the CV on the curve’s or
surface’s shape.
CV Curve
NURBS CV curve
A NURBS curve defined by CVs. The CVs don’t
necessarily lie on the cur ve. Instead, they form
a control lattice that affects the c urvature of the
curve.
CV S urface
NURBS CV surface
ANURBSsurfacedefinedbyCVs.TheCVsdon’t
necessarily lie on the surface. Instead, they form
a control lattice that affects the c urvature of the
surface.