"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> no idea what it might be "good for" but looks intriguing.  (the 2nd image made
> me wonder, could the data be used to simulate something like a marble run :-))


So, this is a video with information pertaining to Blender, but aside from the
general workflow and texture mapping/layering tricks, what caught my interest
was the "curvature map".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x-b2U-MSgc

I think that addresses the question "what can it be used for?" with regard to
the mean and Gaussian curvature of Bezier surfaces.

I'd still have to work out the numerical method for calculating the curvature of
ANY given surface, and that might be a bit slower, but the final results sure do
look promising.

- BE

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