https://github.com/SirVer/cagd5e

My sample code and solutions to some programming exercises for the book "Curves and Surfaces for CAGD" by Gerald Farin
https://github.com/SirVer/cagd5e

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My sample code and solutions to some programming exercises for the book "Curves and Surfaces for CAGD" by Gerald Farin

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/SirVer/cagd5e
• Owner: SirVer
• Created: 2011-07-26T08:39:19.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-09-06T17:11:15.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-16T01:40:07.191Z (4 months ago)
• Language: C
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• Size: 676 KB
• Stars: 39
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.rst

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About

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This is the repository with my experiments and my solutions to programming

tasks from the book

Curves and Surfaces for GAGD (Computer Aided Geometric Design) by Gerald Farin, 5th Edition

Websites:

* http://www.farinhansford.com/books/cagd/

* http://www.mkp.com/cagd5e

The datasets come from a personal email from G. Farin. I enquired about the

datasets since I couldn't find them on the two pages mentioned above anymore.

He answered:

   I don’t seem to have a whole lot. But here it comes…

Therefore the datasets are likely not complete, but better than nothing. I

also extracted the files that are linked on the homepage in allfiles.txt.

Usage

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Most of these scripts are expected to be run inside of Blender_ 2.5 as I use

it as a cheap 3D visualization toolkit. You also need to have the numpy_

library installed and in a way that blender is able to find it. I manually

tweak the sys.path variable for this whenever I start blender.

For some scripts I use `matplotlib`_ to visualize some stuff where firing up

blender didn't really seem useful.

.. _Blender: http://www.blender.org

.. _numpy: http://numpy.scipy.org

.. _matplotlib: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

Related Blog Posts

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The blog posts are meant as a standalone documentation about what is presented

in each file so that the code is also interesting without access to the book.

However, the book is much more complete and discusses more than what I am

interested in.

* `Blossoms and Blender as Visualization Tool`__

* `The de Casteljau Algorithm`__

* `Degree reduction of Bézier curves`__

* `Bridging between Lagrange and Bezier Interpolation`__

  

__ http://www.sirver.net/blog/2011/07/19/blender-2.5-and-blossoms/

__ http://www.sirver.net/blog/2011/07/26/the-de-casteljau-algorithm/

__ http://www.sirver.net/blog/2011/08/23/degree-reduction-of-bezier-curves

__ http://www.sirver.net/blog/2011/09/06/the-bridge-between-lagrange-and-bezier-interpolation/