Equivalent to a 50 minute university lecture on splines, beginning with cubic curves. Part 1 of 3. 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - drafting splines and duck weights 1:17 - minimizing bending energy 2:40 - cubic curves 3:28 - fitting cubic curves 5:02 - tangent constraints Graphics in 5 minutes is a series of cartoon-style videos that teach computer graphics in 10x less time. You can take the equivalent of a University level computer graphics course in just over two hours. The playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWfDJ5nla8UpwShx-lzLJqcp575fKpsSO See here for more information: https://g5m.cs.washington.edu/