On 2012-01-30 18:52:13 +0000, Greg Ward said:
Hi Fritz,
The usual strategy is to convert to Radiance format, like obj2rad. I
don't know how often it's used, but the .OBJ format has a NURBS
specification, and it should be easy enough to support it with obj2mesh.
That's an interesting thought.
That would have the advantage of including surface normal smoothing
and uv textures. Implementing NURBS natively in Radiance would be a
major undertaking by comparison.
I suppose it would.
I'm just getting tired of proliferating polygons. Most curved objects
these days are either modeled as NURBS objects, or by some subdivision
method. And yet--unless I grossly misunderstand Radiance octrees,
which is possible--octrees don't actually care about polygons at all.
Oh, well. One more research project.
Randolph
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