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

2013-07-17 Thread phoenix
> Unfortunately, I think the "robust" way to handle that particular issue is to > report "sets" of loops - one outer and zero or more inner - as individual > events, and even using that definition multiple "events" are possible for > sufficiently complex surface interactions. Yep, that is exac

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

2013-07-17 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:47 AM, phoenix <284281...@qq.com> wrote: > > But remember you have another challenge for something like that - > recognizing when a curve-surface intersection is not actually part of the > outer loop but is instead an "inner" curve segment. One approach might be > to mai

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

2013-07-17 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:11 PM, phoenix <284281...@qq.com> wrote: > > Am I correct that your tests so far have not needed to track the fuzzy > uncertainties involved with propagating "error bars" through multiple > intersections? Let's say, for example, that two curves intersect at a > point, wi

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

2013-07-17 Thread phoenix
> Am I correct that your tests so far have not needed to track the fuzzy > uncertainties involved with propagating "error bars" through multiple > intersections? Let's say, for example, that two curves intersect at a point, > within some tolerance. However, if we test both of those curves and

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

2013-07-17 Thread phoenix
> But remember you have another challenge for something like that - recognizing > when a curve-surface intersection is not actually part of the outer loop but > is instead an "inner" curve segment. One approach might be to maintain a 2D > "grid" of unit squares that maps to the Bezier patches a

Re: [brlcad-devel] [brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[56041] brlcad/trunk/src/libdm/CMakeLists.txt

2013-07-17 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Vlad,That looks better but does that flag only apply to src/libdm or does it apply to everything after as well (in other directories)?It can be disabled in the top-level CMakeLists.txt file if QT is enabled for all directories, but it certainly shouldn't be half with the warning and half without.  

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

2013-07-17 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:44 PM, phoenix <284281...@qq.com> wrote: > Hi! > > After several weeks' work on the surface-surface intersections, it's > improved significantly and can handle lots of cases that cannot be handled > well before. It's more accurate and correct, ready for the evaluation. >

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

2013-07-17 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:04 AM, phoenix <284281...@qq.com> wrote: > > 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 > pape