Splines vs. Polys
10-Jan-95 12:45:23
Sb: #2910-Splines vs. Polys
Fm: Richard Clifton 100025,2103
To: Michael S. Flynn 74551,142
Michael,
It should be possible, but I suppose you would need to set some tolerance for
the match between the polygon and spline surfaces, otherwise the computer would
grind away for a long time trying to achieve convergence.
The easiest thing to implement would be a manual selection of points (maybe a
string of two-point spline endings, as you get in DXF imports) followed by
pressing some kind of "define as spline" button. There's no real difference
between this way of defining a spline and the way a multiple-point spline is
built up currently using the mouse in SCUPTURE.
It's great just talking about these features but probably a major pain to code
them!
Richard