[vtkusers] curved surfaces - NURBS

[Sean McInerney]

Anyone who implements a NURBS DataSet subclass and corresponding 
pipeline support is *supercool* in my book. Hint, hint ... curved 
surface support would be great for multiresolution rendering and such. I 
hope that it's on somebody's TODO list, even if it's not in the 
immediate future. Any takers, Kitware?

-Sean

Tuhin Sinha wrote:
> Venkat,
> 
>   As far as I know, there is no OpenGL/GLU NURBS support in VTK.  I
> think one reason for this is because Windows doesn't support GLU 1.3
> (which contains the NURBS tessalator API) out of the box.  Having said
> that, I can't see why VTK won't support a home-grown NURBS
> implementation via vtkProgrammableSource.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Tuhin Sinha
> 
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:18, Vijay wrote:
> 
>>I have seen many postings regarding whether there is
>>NURBS surface modeling capability using vtk but there
>>has been no clear answer. I would be thankful if
>>somebody could answer that. If so, is there any
>>documentation available online?
>>Thanks,
>>Venkat
>>