Converting surface script to work with meshes?

Hello everybody,

A couple of days ago, I've written a simple fake-attractor script to open/close and flatten/elevate a surface.

I thought that I could apply it to a modulated surface from Maya, but I can't since the surface is a polygon mesh and not a NURBS surface.
I do know that I can convert from polygons to sub divs and from the latter to surfaces in Maya, but that really doesn't produce the desired results. I'm dealing with a rather complicated mesh.

How can I convert or change the script to make it work with a mesh?
Any ideas? I'm quite desperate.

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Permalink Reply by djordje on May 6, 2013 at 3:11pm

This would be the definition applied to a nurbs surface (you will need Lunchbox plugin in order for definition to work):

But, I can not help you with the part where you need to convert your mesh to nurbs surface. There is a Rhino command "MeshToNURB" - still this one will result in creating a polysurface, which is not what you need.

If your mesh is not that complicated, maybe you could generate nurbs from it, by using "Surface from points" or some similar method.

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