Hi Will,

> I'm certainly not a math wizz so I don't know if the algorithms
> could be reworked to work with NURBS surfaces or not -

As far as I can tell it is definitely on the "not" side, I'm afraid to say.

Maybe with additional research in the future they will be able to make it more adaptable in that direction.

Possibly someone with a whole bunch of specialized reverse-engineering type of NURBS experience might be able to generate NURBS output from that, but it would be a very difficult task.

To turn something naturally into NURBS it needs to have a very regular quad-like layout to it, NURBS surfaces are a rectangular net of control points. If you see something that is a whole mess of points connected in no particular apparent order, that then is not something that has a very natural automatic conversion to NURBS.


> it "appears" like it would be compatible since it's curves that are
> used as input to the system, similar to NURBS...

Yeah, but the curves get diced up (intersected with a triangle grid) at one point.

Just because something initially starts out as curves doesn't really mean that it produces similar structured objects out the other end...

- Michael

Would anyone with Carrara6Pro care to fiddle with this using the Displacement Brush in the Vertex Room?
Love to see what people come up with.
Brian

THIS IS A FAULTY FILE_____DO NOT TRY TO USE PLEASE__SORRY
BRIAN

@PAQ
yes Top Mod is a crazy prog for make easily curious forms impossible to make easily with other progs :)
http://www.topmod3d.org/

Where is the T-Spline converter?

Here some funny things TopMod---Zbrush :)

Hi Pilou,

> Where is the T-Spline converter?

It's at http://www.tsplines.com/ - it's a plugin for either Rhino or Maya.

- Michael

Ok I see :)
Is this sort of tools who is use in Rhino (as hidden tool) for the bender or deformations functions?

Hi Pilou,

> Is this sort of tools who is use in Rhino (as hidden tool) for the
> bender or deformations functions?

It adds a different kind of object to Rhino - a "T-Spline" object which behaves sort of like a cross between subdivision surfaces and NURBS.

It lets you do some work more in the style of a polygon modeling program, but also get the final output in NURBS form.

- Michael

yes. a kind of polysurface "with benefits" ;)

jonah

@Pilou

Nice topmodels !