Re: [K3d-development] Representation of Triangular Bezier Patches

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

Bart Janssens wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Carsten Haubold <Car...@we...> wrote:
>   
>> well I'm not sure whether this is an option in the near future, because
>> these triangular bezier patches would need the internal mesh structure to be
>> edited.
>>     
>
> This would probably be the most logical choice, depending on what kind
> of support is actually needed.
>   
On the one hand, we certainly want to encourage this, since K-3D makes 
an ideal platform for this sort of research.  On the other hand, 
k3d::mesh is already getting unwieldy - it seems unrealistic to imagine 
that k3d::mesh can grow to become the union of all interesting geometric 
primitives.  What this suggests to me is that k3d::mesh might become a 
container for gprim *plugins*, which would be an interesting project.   
For most sources / modifiers this could be a pretty small delta.  I 
could imagine a modifier like MergeMesh changing considerably.  
Depending on the API serialization might need to be encapsulated in the 
gprim instances themselves.  I'll start refining this concept over the 
coming week.

Cheers,
Tim