[vtkusers] NURBS and VTK

[Randy Heiland]

On Dec 4,  6:03pm, Marco Petrone wrote:
> Subject: [vtkusers] NURBS and VTK
>
> Dear All, has someone faced and/or worked on this argument? I saw in the
> archive some mails asking about the same thing, but no answer to them.
> I'm reposting again the question, since I was asked about it and as far
> as I know there are only a couple of classes for spline curves in VTK,
> but no explicit support for surfaces. Thus I'd like to find any
> experience of the VTK community about the argument.

Here's my 0.02 worth...  just as VTK is not a numerical linear algebra pkg,
neither is it a (CAGD) modeling pkg.  However, I see in the 4.0 classes that
there are ruled surface and swept surface classes.

Related...
I know that the Rhino modeling pkg is quite popular (a commercial pkg):
http://www.rhino3d.com/

and, there's also:
http://www.openNURBS.com/
http://www.nar-associates.com/nurbs/c_code.html

As an aside, I would also recommend Gerald Farin's book(s).  (I studied under
him and am biased I suppose).
http://eros.eas.asu.edu/~farin/personal/gf.html

--Randy