Re: [Quantlib-dev] Surface interface

[Ferdinando A. <na...@am...>]

Hi Joseph

it would be nice if you could give us a more detailed idea about how
this class would be used, especially from the financial point of view.

we're in the middle of some major refactoring of interest rate
volatility surfaces, and I would prefer to have a clear idea about
overlapping, if any.

ciao -- Nando

On 11/28/06, Joseph Wang <jo...@gn...> wrote:
> Unless someone objects, I'd like to check in a set of classes that provide a
> standardized interface to surfaces in quantlib.  The basic interface is a
> Surface class that returns a real in return to two real inputs and provides
> information about the domain the Surface is valid.  The idea behind this is
> to provide a standard interface for external plotting packages.
>
> The goal in three or four months time is to make this work with Python and VTK
> to provide the sort of visualization which is standard in CFD, medical and
> petroleum, but which I haven't seen yet in QF.
>
> The other thing that we probably should look at before 1.0 is to look at the
> classes and see if there are any that are redundant.
>
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