Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC applicants

2013-07-16 Thread Avneet Kaur
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > How did you go about finding and fixing that particular bit of duplication? > Looks like it would have been tricky to identify as duplication just by > reading the code. I used Simian tool to find duplicacy. It showed only du

Re: [brlcad-devel] About surface-surface intersections - thecurrent status and a question

2013-07-16 Thread phoenix
> If I'm interpreting the bottom part of p.624 and the top of p.625 in that > paper correctly, we cannot assume this property holds for general NURBS or > B-Spline surfaces (intuitively I wouldn't expect it to) but if the paper is > correct we *can* assume this is true for Bezier patches. There

Re: [brlcad-devel] About surface-surface intersections - the current status and a question

2013-07-16 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:49 AM, phoenix <284281...@qq.com> wrote: > > Hmm.. For polynomial curves and polynomial surfaces, the theorem is > satisfied, of course. But for general NURBS surfaces used in BRL-CAD, can > we make use of this property (which may require C-infinity) so as to > simplify s

Re: [brlcad-devel] References for NURBS

2013-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> I just found this reference on O'Reilly's Safari: My bad again! I thought this was a 2013 edition but what I was looking at was the date Safar added it. Still, it's good

Re: [brlcad-devel] References for NURBS

2013-07-16 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > I just found this reference on O'Reilly's Safari: > > An Introduction to NURBS > By: David F. Rogers > Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann > Pub. Date: July 21, 2000 That's as good a place to start as any. Just be aware that there's been more than a d

Re: [brlcad-devel] References for NURBS

2013-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... > I just found this reference on O'Reilly's Safari: > > An Introduction to NURBS > By: David F. Rogers > Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann > Pub. Date: July 21, 2000 > Print ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-669-2 > Print ISBN-10: 1-55860-669-6 > Web ISBN-13: 9

Re: [brlcad-devel] References for NURBS

2013-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Bryan Bishop wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... >> My question: is there ONE source (book or paper) that is recommended >> for a intro to NURBS as they are being used

Re: [brlcad-devel] References for NURBS

2013-07-16 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Bryan Bishop wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > My question: is there ONE source (book or paper) that is recommended > for a intro to NURBS as they are being used (or planned to be used) > for BRL-CAD (including boolean operations)? > >

Re: [brlcad-devel] References for NURBS

2013-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Bryan Bishop wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> My question: is there ONE source (book or paper) that is recommended >> for a intro to NURBS as they are being used (or planned to be used) > > This is often cited as being instrumental

Re: [brlcad-devel] References for NURBS

2013-07-16 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > My question: is there ONE source (book or paper) that is recommended > for a intro to NURBS as they are being used (or planned to be used) > for BRL-CAD (including boolean operations)? > This is often cited as being instrumental: http://libg

[brlcad-devel] References for NURBS

2013-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
Sean just listed a bunch of references for reading about various NURBS issues. My question: is there ONE source (book or paper) that is recommended for a intro to NURBS as they are being used (or planned to be used) for BRL-CAD (including boolean operations)? Best, -Tom

Re: [brlcad-devel] Build directory restriction macro

2013-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > On Jul 15, 2013, at 7:32 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> I'm just suggesting the macro as a way to help new BRL-CAD builders >> avoid the same mistake. > > I think it's good to make it not be a mistake. It's an entirely reasonable >

[brlcad-devel] Implementation of PULL

2013-07-16 Thread check.nyah
Hi, Looking at the way the push routine has been implemented I think I could follow a similar process with implementing a pull; so here is my current working plan(model) "looked at the xpush implementation too". Currently Writing the ged_pull() with the following as subroutines: *Wrote a pull_le

Re: [brlcad-devel] About surface-surface intersections - the current status and a question

2013-07-16 Thread phoenix
> OK, taking a very quick look at that paper and what you say, I see I > misunderstood your original question. My bad. However, I think the answer > may be easier than what I was getting at, in that a polynomial curve is a > $C^\{infty}$ structure already, so there is no problem at all. > O

Re: [brlcad-devel] Magic ID for pull routine

2013-07-16 Thread check.nyah
ok thanks sean will continue with the Leaf_mat() routine which extracts the matrix transformation of the leaves today.. Cheers! Nyah On 7/16/13, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2013, at 4:54 PM, check.nyah wrote: > >> Today, I implemented the pull_leaf routine which forms a linke

Re: [brlcad-devel] About surface-surface intersections - the current status and a question

2013-07-16 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:52 AM, Bryan Bishop wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Matt Shepit wrote: > I cannot access the paper, so I'm only guessing here to a large extent... > > > http://libgen.org/scimag1/10.1016/S0010-4485%252896%252900099-1.pdf Other relevant research that cites that