[vtk-developers] Class design for spline visualizations

[Lin M]

Hi Dr. Thompson,

Besides loading external NURBS files, what's the next thing to do? Based on
our proposal, we should work on implementing the operation algorithms now.
Where do you think I can start with?

Best,
Lin

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:06 PM, David Thompson <david.thompson at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Lin,
>
> > I read the document for BRep format and checked those files in CGM/test.
> It seems that only a small part of the test files contains bezier/b-spline
> surfaces and all these files contains quite a number of different kinds of
> shapes. I can write a class to read such file but it will only display the
> bezier/b-spline part. I'm afraid that it will just be a piece of the
> original shape which the file represents. Do you think I should do that or
> there is a better way to load external shape?
>
> I think it would be great to start with the parts of the CGM files that
> are NURBS. The remaining shapes should either be straight (lines, planes)
> or conics (for which you have written a few routines we can use to create
> patches that will represent them properly).
>
> > PS. I opened a new google doc to summarize what we have done now. I will
> update new progress to it during the development. (link)
>
> Great!
>
>         David
>
>
>
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