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28 Jul 2024 08:20:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Splines - odd claim  
From: clipka
Date: 6 Oct 2014 19:05:53
Message: <54332051$1@news.povray.org>
Am 06.10.2014 17:52, schrieb Bald Eagle:
>
>  From post # .... 13   :O
>
> http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?181405-Lofting-A-Dragon
>
> "I don't know much about CAD programs, but it is said that there is no CAD
> program on the market that can generate or replicate a set of ship's curves."
>
> Like any unsupported claim where "it is said" [by WHO???], I view this with
> great skepticism, especially since given what computers and CAD are capable of
> doing, _reproducing_ an existing set of curves seems... trivial.
> I mean, someone had the design and means to make them in the first place, right?

I'm pretty sure that technically he's perfectly right: No CAD software 
can reproduce these *exactly*.

Aside from that... well, 'nuff said.


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