Revision: 43803
          http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/brlcad/?rev=43803&view=rev
Author:   brlcad
Date:     2011-03-09 00:10:01 +0000 (Wed, 09 Mar 2011)

Log Message:
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parametric material properties.  need a mechanism for representing materials 
that don't have a uniform density.

Modified Paths:
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    brlcad/trunk/TODO

Modified: brlcad/trunk/TODO
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--- brlcad/trunk/TODO   2011-03-09 00:08:01 UTC (rev 43802)
+++ brlcad/trunk/TODO   2011-03-09 00:10:01 UTC (rev 43803)
@@ -493,6 +493,13 @@
   material object name.  material object encompasses hierarchical
   material traits.
 
+* parametric material properties.  support the ability to define
+  material properties based on parametric values such as distance from
+  surface, distance from medial axis, distance from centroid, distance
+  from plane, etc.  this supports parametric descriptions of materials
+  that have highly variable densities (e.g., bone, certain alloys and
+  plastics, etc).
+
 * shader objects (non-geometric attribute-only objects) for v5
   geometry files.  allow shader string to refer to said objects for
   shader parameters.


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