Not sure about the specific text the parent had in mind but "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" by Newman and Sproull (1979, but I bought it in '81 in the student edition and it influenced me a lot in my youth) made a bit of the connection with Renault in the chapter on Bezier Curves - many of its other examples of advanced graphics (at the time) were on flight simulators and such built by Evans and Sutherland, where the "Evans" was one of Alan Kay's mentors at the University of Utah.
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