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From: tima@agora.uucp (Tim Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Surface surface intersection
Summary: using Mortenson's method. Any better ones out there?
Keywords: Coons NURBS surface intersection bonehead
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.153859.3375@agora.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 90 15:38:59 GMT
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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Hello net!

I was just hunkering down to whack out surface/surface intersections. I 
will be doing pretty much exactly like Mortenson describes in his book
_Geometric Modeling_. Are there any references to other fancy dancy and
extremely fast (hee hee!) methods to compute these things? I will be
intersecting NURBS to NURBS, Coons to NURBS and Coons to Coons. Yes, 
eventually I will probably convert everything to cubic rational Bezier's, 
but I have to get this done before Autofact... Once the conversion to
cubic rational bez's takes place I can take advantage of fun things like
'convex hulls' and 'controlling polygonal meshes' but like I said, I have
to get something done NOW then find a better way to do it!

So, my question is again any references to "The greatest surface surface
intersection routine in the world" that I can replace my hacked Mortenson
code with after Autofact? Thanks!

tima@agora.hf.intel.com