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author | Kristian Høgsberg <[email protected]> | 2010-02-25 16:20:03 -0500 |
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committer | Kristian Høgsberg <[email protected]> | 2010-02-25 17:40:11 -0500 |
commit | 44f78eb18e851892f72b41be4119cf8b14cddbbb (patch) | |
tree | 39b5a584e043354923dfcc887a7b28b2438f9a41 /src/glu/mesa/README2 | |
parent | b15fe60ba568ff28de38dd0dc834fb9198650002 (diff) |
Remove unused mini and mesa glu subdirectories
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diff --git a/src/glu/mesa/README2 b/src/glu/mesa/README2 deleted file mode 100644 index 3c9959179b0..00000000000 --- a/src/glu/mesa/README2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -The current NURBS implementation has no trimming facilities yet. - -The code is not well commented. - -1) Normal calculus fails for special cases of NURBS (independent - of the NURBS modules) - Those cases arise when for u or v, some control points - for a fixed value of that parameter form the same point. - Imagine a Bezier patch degenerated into a "triangle". - - v ^ 0,1,2 order=3 - | * - | - | 3* 4* 5* - | - | 6* 7* 8* - | - | - +------------------------> u - - The calculus of du derivative at triple point (0,1 and 2) will fail. - As a result, the normal vector will be 0. - The eval2.c code has to be changed to handle the above situation. - -2) Adjacent NURBS surfaces ("sharing" the same control points along - the "joining" edge) will be sampled with the same factor. - This prevents the formation of "cracks". - When the control polygon of the "shared" edge is not the same, - cracks might appear. - -The sampling tolerance is sometimes not respected! -A NURBS object is broken into Bezier curves/surfaces. If one of such -Bezier objects has a local high curvature with other portions of it -relatively flat then the high curvature part will be sampled more dense that -its flatter regions. -The flat regions might be tesselated into quads having sides of length -greater than the current sampling tolernace setting. -I believe such behaviour is acceptable, though not along the concept of -sampling tolerance. - -February 20, 1996. - -Bogdan. |