On Jul 13, 3:30 pm, "nitnit" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> To no one in particular.
> I'm trying to figure out what's going on,
> not tell anyone what is.
>
> I remember seeing quite a lot of discussion at the, v2~v3, time
> regarding the loss of Alias purchased AGLib usage and development
> of their current geometry engine on McNeel's Rhino forum. Efforts
> to search for any of those old discussions have been fruitless.
> Archives hosed? Unfortunate if so.
>
> If you can find any of the old discussions ...?
>
> Regarding OpenNURBS, I've never paid much attention to it.
>
> http://www.opennurbs.org/index.htm
> openNURBS is an open source toolkit for reading and writing models
> in the 3DM format. Our full-featured development platform is
Rhino.http://www.opennurbs.org/background.htm
> The openNURBS Initiative was founded by Robert McNeel & Associates
> in January 2000, with the sole purpose of providing CAD, CAM, CAE,
> and computer graphics software users reliable methods for
transferring
> 3-D geometry between applications.http://www.opennurbs.org/faq.htm
> Who is funding the openNURBS Initiative and why?
> Robert McNeel & Associates. They feel that the 3-D market is stifled
> because of the inability to reliably transfer 3-D geometry between
> applications. The problem is too big for us to solve alone. By
funding
> the operating cost of openNURBS, others will get involved in the
toolkit
> design and development. It will be a much cheaper and effective way
to
> solve the problem.
>
> It would appear that it is not intended to be a "kernel", e.g. geometry
> creation and manipulation functions. True? ...
>
> news:404f5ffd$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The openNURBS toolkit does not contain any functions or cl*****
> to assist in calculating intersections of curves or surfaces.
> You will have to come up with your own intersector or find a 3rd
> party product to use.
>
> Dale Fugier
> Robert McNeel & Associates
McNeel use to license the AG LIb geometry kernel from Alias. A good
deal of Rhino was built on this kernel. There came a time when Alias
didn't want to license it to McNeel anymore and because Bob McNeel
signed a bad contract with Alias, McNeel had to yank out all the code
from AG Lib. Now McNeel is scared to license any components for Rhino
so Rhino develops at a snails pace as they try and do it all
themselves. Dumb move. So is ignoring the mechanical market.
Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/
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