[vtkusers] Re: curved surfaces - NURBS

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hum, sorry about that. Could you please open a bug report for that. And 
enter a feature request. After you edit your bug, you can add attachement.

Thanks
Mathieu

Tuhin Sinha wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
>   I implemented the vtkNURBSSurfaceSource class under Linux and managed
> to get things working.  I sent off a copy of the class to Kitware for
> review, but I never heard from them regarding its incorporation in the
> the mainline tree.  In the meantime, I found that the class doesn't
> compile under Windows due to a lacking support for GLU 1.3.  So we have
> a flag in our vtkMy tree that selectively compiles vtkNURBSSurfaceSource
> under Linux only.  I have thought about extracting the relevant GLU code
> from the XFree/Mesa tree and putting it in as a Utilities library so the
> class can be used cross-platform.  I am currently happy with my
> *supercool* class working only under Linux.  Hoever, if there is
> interest in this class for general purpose use... I can look into
> figuring out how to get the GLU stuff included with cross-platform
> issues in mind.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> TKS
> 
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:44, 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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