>> I will edit my proposal and abstract accordingly. After talking to kintel on >> the IRC, it is now clear that: geometry storage and geometry processing can >> be done with different data structures. > > They can which is why the decision needed is whether to (A) use a generic > container of vertices, faces, and normals that directly converts to BRL-CAD > and trivially converts to OpenSCAD or (B) a general polyset structure that > directly converts to OpenSCAD and trivially converts to BRL-CAD or (C) a more > advanced container that will preserve topological structure and probably be > easily convertible to BRL-CAD and OpenSCAD.
I'm in favor for using generic programming techniques which means to not invent a new container structure and avoids struggle with conversion issues. This should be an adequate approach for writing a generic mesh healing algorithm. Regards, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel