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Below is my detailed proposal for this summer's project. In the first part, I'd like to mention the current status of this part left out last summer. Then I list my plan on how to implement the remaining parts, dividing into three parts. In addition, something I want to do if I have additional time will be listed. At last, I'd like to show you the schedule and what I have already done this year about this project. | Below is my detailed proposal for this summer's project. In the first part, I'd like to mention the current status of this part left out last summer. Then I list my plan on how to implement the remaining parts, dividing into three parts. In addition, something I want to do if I have additional time will be listed. At last, I'd like to show you the schedule and what I have already done this year about this project. | ||
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Revision as of 08:32, 16 April 2013
Contents
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.
Detailed description
Introduction
NURBS surface-surface intersection is still a high-priority project in BRL-CAD. NURBS is a dominant geometric representation format in CADs, so we need to have enough support for it in BRL-CAD. Currently most objects in BRL-CAD are modeled in CSG, when converted to NURBS representations, the primitives are first converted to NURBS primitives, which BRL-CAD supports, but the next step is missing - evaluate the boolean operations on NURBS primitives, and then get a evaluated NURBS combination as the original CSG combination object. Currently BRL-CAD only gives ``CSG tree + unevaluated NURBS primitives", so we need NURBS intersections and evaluations.
Below is my detailed proposal for this summer's project. In the first part, I'd like to mention the current status of this part left out last summer. Then I list my plan on how to implement the remaining parts, dividing into three parts. In addition, something I want to do if I have additional time will be listed. At last, I'd like to show you the schedule and what I have already done this year about this project.
