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FFD limits and extensions
FFD introduced in 1986
Thomas Sederberg, Scott Parry. Free-Form deformation of solid geometric models, SIGGRAPH 1986.
Initially described with Bezier polynomials
But extends to Spline with any basis function
BSpline, NURBS, etc
Limitations
- Large grid is hard to manipulate
- Doesn't take into account shape morphology