On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Harmanpreet Singh wrote: > To accomplish above task, I also recently studied about the basics of > curve modeling, Bezier and NURBS curves. However they are such vast > topics that one need sufficient time to read, understand and > experiment. But I get a very basic idea of them and if need arises I > will refer further resources. Now exploring GLU's NURBS > implementation.
NURBS are far too complicated to be fully comprehended within the limited timeframe of GSoC. I wasn't sure at first, but I think that you simply don't have sufficient background to tackle that right now. Even students that take an advanced computer graphics course at the graduate level often to not get to that topic. The suggestion of visualizing NURBS was to originally to use an API in order to see them. Since an API does not yet exist in the web space, we need a different target. Actual code progress is now of paramount importance, not research. This seems to preclude NURBS altogether. Rai's suggestion to focus on showing the implicit entities in some other manner is good. > So I think, I can do either (1) implementing NURBS support to WebGLU > or (2) convert NURBS geometry into Bezier curves. Currently I'm > looking into both of these. While (1) would be awesome, I don't think there's enough time remaining. The problem with (2) is understanding the complexity of the problem domain before being able to make progress in code. Again, I don't think you have the background (or time to learn it). I suggest focusing on (3) to simply display a polygonal conversion via the browser so that the emphasis may be on the interface. You mentioned several times in your development log that you've been working on a layout. It would be good to see it. Please share what that layout currently looks like. If it's on pen and paper, scan it in. If you've implemented the layout as a working web interface demo, even better. :) Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
