[Imstk-developers] Are geometric primitives deformable?

[Milef, Nicholas Boris]

By deformable, I mean that the vertices can change by some non uniform factor (so like for soft bodies). What would be considered a primitive geometry change? Obviously, for a cube there's only so much you can do (scale, rotation, translation), but for a sphere could you change the resolution at runtime? Because that would change the geometric makeup.
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From: Alexis Girault [alexis.girault at kitware.com]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 4:17 PM
To: Milef, Nicholas Boris
Cc: imstk-developers at imstk.org
Subject: Re: [Imstk-developers] Are geometric primitives deformable?

By deformable, which one do you mean:
1. changing the primitive geometry properties should change its render delegate
2. the primitives can experience physical deformations (soft bodies)

I believe currently none of them are, but (1) shouldn't be much to implement, while I do not think (2) should be possible (use a mesh if you have soft bodies). We could have however utilities to convert primitives to meshes.

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