Gaining an intuitive understanding for b-splines is difficult without directly seeing the effects of different knot vectors and control point positions.
Curvey allows you to build b-spline curves by specifying the degree of the curve, control points, and the knot vector. This allows the user to see b-spline curves in its most general sense.
Download:
https://github.com/eshira/curvey/archives/master
If you like living on the edge, you can download the latest git snapshot:
$ git clone git://github.com/eshira/curvey.git
Curvey depends on Python an the Tkinter library, which is included in standard Python distributions. It has been tested on Python 2.6.
To run the GUI version of Curvey:
$ python curvey.py --ui
You can also give Curvey an input file:
$ python curvey.py file
You can read the Curvey tutorial.