Re: [Mesa3d-dev] bug in sphere normal

[Gareth H. <ga...@va...>]

Brian Paul wrote:
> 
> > > But Mesa's GLU tessellator and NURBS code isn't nearly as good as the
> > > SI code.
> >
> > Can you be more specific? As a matter of fact, I am studying closely
> > the codes of mesa's glu for personal interests. SGI's codes are not
> > meant for easy human reading.
> 
> Mesa's polygon tessellator doesn't have the GLU 1.2 features.
> Gareth Hughes worked on this for a while but didn't have time to
> complete the work.  I'm sure he'd agree that it's a big job.
> Also Mesa's GLU NURBS tessellator doesn't handle trimming or a
> few other features.

*shudder*

Oh yes, it's a large problem.  Thankfully, I actually understand it now
and could do a much better job of updating Mesa's GLU than the previous
attempt.

However, with the SI code publicly available, there isn't as much of a
need for this to be done.  I've got a lot of other things to work on, so
this would be near the bottom of my TODO list (if it were on there at
all).

-- Gareth