>> I have been following the mailing list for some time now and I have some >> doubts about the Online Geometry Viewer.
Thanks for sharing your doubts. Discussion is good. ;) >> 1. In my experience, rendering polygonal models has been faster and less >> painstaking then NURBS, and they also provide better local controls for >> editing the models. Since the OGV takes .obj files as input, shouldn't there >> be an option for editing polygonal models as well? It depends on the complexity and quality of the model. Highly detailed geometry can actually be rendered faster in NURBS form than in polygonal form, but we're certainly not precluding polygonal models regardless. Note that our emphasis is on CAD features, which includes a focus on "solid modeling" and managed geometry. This is a different set of features than you tend to find with polygonal "content modelers" like Maya and Blender. Think CATIA, AutoCAD, Solidworks, NX, and Pro/E. They predominantly use (NURBS-based) boundary representation geometry. I'd also don't WANT to overlap with tools like Blender more than is necessary. Our domain has more than enough to keep us busy for several lifetimes. ;) > My only fear is when we have > BRL-CAD on back-end, and our web app is just an online wrapper, the > stuff we will be doing may become a bit CPU hungry. I'm not sure that "just on online wrapper" would be a good or bad thing. There's a ton of back-end functionality that really should be leveraged because it would be entirely impractical to handle in the browser (like geometry import/conversion/export processing, animation rendering, etc). Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
