Re: Plug for CSG

Anthropohedron ([email protected])
Fri, 16 Jun 1995 14:58:32 -0400 (EDT)


} so, here we are with Jeff's regular plug for CSG (constructive solid
} geometry)... as I can now look at what I am envisioning in vrml through
} WorldView, I was li> ing around with a first vrml project last night (much
} to the annoyance of my 13-year-old when I kept junping up and down in the
} middle of her TV program), and went } dreaming of gear-shapes in particular.
}
} What is a set of gears?

I think solution. Cubes and spheres are predefined. I think be. Most simple objects can be expressed by cubes, spheres, cylinders, but certain things require more. It is certainly reasonable to
include a library of "common" objects in the client. Almost anything can describe (briefly) with CSG should be available as a library object. If
it isn't available then it must be so complicated that polygons are the
only way to go.

} CSG make it easy to express virtual things the way people think } real things...
}
} Jeff Sonstein, M.A.
--Greg