Re: Looking for feedback [Was Re: [CsMain] Plans for the engine: speeding things up]

[Jason P. <lit...@ya...>]

--- Seth Galbraith <sga...@li...> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Jason Platt wrote:
> 
> > Ok, you've got me.. Whats a metaball?
> 
> Basically you use balls as control points for a curve.  So an egg
> shape
> could be made from two different sized balls with a loosely attatched
> curve.  A person can be modeled by adding balls representing muscles
> and
> bony or fatty protrusions, and so on.  I don't know a lot about it.

  Ohh, ahh, sounds too complex to be really useful.

> 
> > Myself I would stay away from using conics, it's easy to do really
> > nasty things with them although they are very flexible.
> 
> Okay, you have my permission to stay a safe distance from conics so
> you
> don't hurt yourself with any of that nasty flexible stuff :-)
> 
> But seriously, what sort of things about conics worry you?

  Oh, just that I had a great nack for making conic formulas that would
take infinite time to calculate a simple shape.

> 
> > As I see things, what people want is a primitive that can be passed
> to
> > the engine that will use LOD to either upsample or downsample the
> > number of points used to create curved surfaces such as cones,
> > cylinders, spheres, etc..
> 
> Yes, a new curve type or types, but it only needs to "upsample" :-)
> (BTW - we have 2 "downsampling" types: terrain meshes and sprites.)
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