The Weekly Houdini Tutorial: Understanding Nurbs Curves - Breakpoints & Converting to Nurbs

Trying to learn Houdini? We upload a new tutorial every week! This week:
The nurbs curves series marches on. First up, how to draw and control nurbs curves using breakpoints. And to finish, two different methods for converting polygon curves to nurbs curves by treating the incoming points as either CVs or breakpoints.
This tutorial is number 19 of 34 in our ‘Geometry Essentials 01: Components & Primitive Types’ course. Get the full course (and all the others) over at hipflask.how
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