A subdivision surface, in the field of 3D computer graphics, is a method of representing a smooth surface via the specification of a coarser piecewise linear polygon mesh. The smooth surface can be calculated from the coarse mesh as the limit of a recursive process of subdividing each polygonal face into smaller faces that better approximate the smooth surface.
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... Subdivision surfaces can be naturally edited at different levels of subdivision ... the coarse mesh to create the basic shape, then edit the offsets for the next subdivision step, then repeat this at finer and finer levels ... You can always see how your edit effect the limit surface via GPU evaluation of the surface ...
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