[vtkusers] Re: curved surfaces - NURBS

[Sean McInerney]

Wow Tuhin,

   I didn't know that you're already supercool ... or maybe you were 
previously supercool. I just want to know what an Expoter is ;-)

   Did you give up on your GLU wrapper class due to lack of interest or 
lack of Windows support? ... or maybe something more mysterious.

-Sean

Goodwin Lawlor wrote:
> Hi Tuhin,
> 
> What happened to vtkNURBSSurfaceSource (
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2002-December/064657.html )?
> There was a vtk class that used GLU to tesselate polygons so it is possible
> to wrap the library. What problem did you hit?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Goodwin
> 
> ps If whoever writes the NURBS class gets bored, a vtkIGESWriter/Expoter
> would be useful and would pass the time for you nicely ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> "Tuhin Sinha" <tk.sinha at vanderbilt.edu> wrote in message
> news:1092770803.7177.11.camel at localhost...
> 
>>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
>>>
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