User:Phoenix/GSoc2013/Proposal

Project title

NURBS Intersection & Evaluation

Brief summary

Last summer I tried to do something on NURBS surface-surface intersection for BRL-CAD, but due to the limitation of time I cannot completely finish this project. I have implemented a routine to compute the intersection curves of two NURBS surfaces, and in general cases it works well, but some improvement are still needed. And the remaining part was done in a rush, with lots of features still missing. So in this summer, I would like to continue to work on this project, finishing the remaining parts, and finally offer a routine to convert CSG combination objects to evaluated NURBS objects. The work includes but is not limited to: (1) improve the current SSI routine to deal with special cases; (2) split the surfaces with the intersection curves we get in (1); (3) combine the new trimmed faces to get a new evaluated model. If there's still some time remaining, I will tried some other interesting topics, like NURBS editing in mged/archer, or anything that have great priority in BRL-CAD.