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  Re: NURBS support ?  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 23 Oct 1998 10:11:48
Message: <36308094.0@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:39:49 +0200, Stefan Betermieux 
	<ste### [at] fernuni-hagende> wrote:
>Ron Parker wrote:
>
>> NURBS are not much more likely to be 'editable.'  At least, not by
>> my definition of editable.  Nevertheless, there is at least one
>> effort underway to add NURBS to POV-Ray, at least as an unofficial
>> patch.  Converting from an industry-standard format to whatever
>> develops for POV will probably end up being an additional project,
>> however.
>
>As you seem to have more information then I, perhaps you can tell me who is
>working on the patch. I will be concerned a lot with NURBS in the next
>months and perhaps I can contribute this project. Just writing a converter
>would end up in the same big files, so I am interested in adding new
>keywords to POV. OK, perhaps it is more difficult then I think it is, so any
>comments are welcome.

The only thing I know about the effort is from an offhand comment on a web
page and some commented out source code, so I'm not much of an information
source.  Nathan Kopp is working on the patch, but I don't know the status 
of it.  He reads this group; perhaps he can give you more information.


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