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Michael Callahan wrote:

Eventually, I would like to replace the polygon lines by a spline curve. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to do this? I know almost nothing about OpenGL.

You divide the spline up into line segments and draw those.

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the advice.

I have seen that it's possible to draw a spline as such in OpenGL using glMap1f() and glEvalCoord1f() [1], but in any case I would need to compute the spline explicitly also if I want to do the "contour" segmentation.

I suppose that computing the spline first (typically as a periodic cubic spline), and then converting the seeds to control points of Bézier basis functions for OpenGL is too much hassle, and probably prone to error.

So I'll follow your advice, compute the spline coefficients, then sample it to get small line segments, and plot those.

[1] http://glprogramming.com/red/chapter12.html

Best regards,

Ramon.

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• [Seg3D] what's Painter::set_status for?, Ramón Casero Cañas, 10/12/2009
  • [Seg3D] Re: what's Painter::set_status for?, Ramón Casero Cañas, 10/13/2009
  • [Seg3D] Re: what's Painter::set_status for?, Michael Callahan, 10/13/2009
    • [Seg3D] New Spline Tool (was Re: what's Painter::set_status for?), Ramón Casero Cañas, 10/13/2009
      • [Seg3D] Re: New Spline Tool (was Re: what's Painter::set_status for?), Michael Callahan, 10/13/2009
        • [Seg3D] Re: Re: New Spline Tool (was Re: what's Painter::set_status for?), Ramón Casero Cañas, 10/14/2009
          • [Seg3D] Re: Re: Re: New Spline Tool (was Re: what's Painter::set_status for?), Ramón Casero Cañas, 10/14/2009
          • [Seg3D] Re: New Spline Tool, Ramón Casero Cañas, 10/15/2009
            • [Seg3D] Re: Re: New Spline Tool, Michael Callahan, 10/15/2009
              • [Seg3D] Re: Re: Re: New Spline Tool, Ramón Casero Cañas, 10/16/2009
              • [Seg3D] Re: Re: Re: Re: New Spline Tool, David Brayford, 10/16/2009
              • [Seg3D] Re: New Spline Tool, Ramón Casero Cañas, 10/16/2009
      • [Seg3D] Re: New Spline Tool (was Re: what's Painter::set_status for?), Ramón Casero Cañas, 10/22/2009

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