• Analyze
• knotMultiplicities
• isRationalSurfaceClosed
• rationalSurfaceClosestPoint
• rationalSurfaceClosestParam
• rationalCurveClosestPoint
• rationalCurveClosestParam
• rationalCurveParamAtArcLength
• rationalBezierCurveParamAtArcLength
• rationalCurveArcLength
• rationalBezierCurveArcLength
• KnotMultiplicity
• constructor
• inc
• knot
• mult

Analyze

verb.eval.Analyze

CLASS

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Analyze contains static immutable methods for analyzing NURBS geometry. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Determining the closest points on NURBS geometry to given points
• Determining knot structure
• Evaluating geometric properties (like arc length) of NURBS curves
• Determining the parameter of at arc length of NURBS curves

knotMultiplicities

STATIC METHOD

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knotMultiplicities(knots : KnotArray) : Array<KnotMultiplicity>

Determine the multiplicities of the values in a knot vector

params

• array of nondecreasing knot values

returns

• Array of KnotMultiplicity objects

isRationalSurfaceClosed

STATIC METHOD

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isRationalSurfaceClosed(surface : NurbsSurfaceData, uDir : Bool) : Bool

Determine whether a NURBS surface is "closed" in the given direction. Essentially, this determines if the end of the surface in the given direction is continuous at its end. This is an experimental method and not hightly reliable.

params

• The NURBS surface
• Whether to analyze the continuity in the U direction or the V direction

returns

• Whether the surface is continuous or not in the supplied direction.

rationalSurfaceClosestPoint

STATIC METHOD

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rationalSurfaceClosestPoint(surface : NurbsSurfaceData, p : Point) : Point

Determine the closest point on a NURBS surface to a given point. This is an experimental method and not hightly reliable.

params

• The NURBS surface
• The point to which we're trying to locate the closest point on the surface

returns

• The closest point on the surface, bounded by the parametric range of the surface

rationalSurfaceClosestParam

STATIC METHOD

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rationalSurfaceClosestParam(surface : NurbsSurfaceData, p : Point) : UV

Determine the closest parameters on a NURBS surface to a given point. This is an experimental method and not hightly reliable.

params

• The NURBS surface
• The point to which we're trying to locate the closest parameters on the surface

returns

• The closest parameters on the surface, bounded by the parametric domain of the surface

rationalCurveClosestPoint

STATIC METHOD

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rationalCurveClosestPoint(curve : NurbsCurveData, p : Point) : Point

Determine the closest point on a NURBS curve to a given point.

params

• The NURBS curve
• The point to which we're trying to locate the closest point on the curve

returns

• The closest point on the surface, bounded by the parametric domain of the surface

rationalCurveClosestParam

STATIC METHOD

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rationalCurveClosestParam(curve : NurbsCurveData, p : Point) : Float

Determine the closest parameters on a NURBS curve to a given point.

params

• The NURBS curve
• The point to which we're trying to locate the closest parameter on the curve

returns

• The closest parameter on the curve, bounded by the parametric domain of the curve

rationalCurveParamAtArcLength

STATIC METHOD

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rationalCurveParamAtArcLength(curve : NurbsCurveData, len : Float, tol : Float, e-3 : undefined, beziers : Array<NurbsCurveData>, bezierLengths : Array<Float>) : Float

Approximate the parameter at a given arc length on a NURBS curve

params

• The curve for which to do the procedure
• The arc length for which to do the procedure
• the tolerance - increasing the tolerance can make this computation quite expensive
• The curve decomposed into a sequence of beziers - this will be computed if omitted but speeds up the computation computed repeatedly
• The lengths of the beziers after being decomposed

returns

• The parameter

rationalBezierCurveParamAtArcLength

STATIC METHOD

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rationalBezierCurveParamAtArcLength(curve : NurbsCurveData, len : Float, tol : Float, totalLength : Float) : Float

Get the curve parameter at an arc length

params

• NurbsCurveData object representing the curve
• the arc length to find the parameter
• the tolerance - increasing the tolerance can make this computation quite expensive
• the total length of the curve, if already computed

returns

• the parameter

rationalCurveArcLength

STATIC METHOD

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rationalCurveArcLength(curve : NurbsCurveData, u : Float, gaussDegIncrease : Int)

Approximate the length of a rational curve by gaussian quadrature - assumes a smooth curve

params

• NurbsCurveData object representing the curve
• the parameter at which to approximate the length
• the degree of gaussian quadrature to perform - a higher number yields a more exact result

returns

• the approximate length

rationalBezierCurveArcLength

STATIC METHOD

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rationalBezierCurveArcLength(curve : NurbsCurveData, u : Float, gaussDegIncrease : Int) : Float

Approximate the length of a rational bezier curve by gaussian quadrature - assumes a smooth curve

params

• NurbsCurveData object representing the curve
• the parameter at which to approximate the length
• the degree of gaussian quadrature to perform - a higher number yields a more exact result

returns

• the approximate length

KnotMultiplicity

verb.eval.KnotMultiplicity

CLASS

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A simple helper class to represent the multiplicity of a knot at a given position.

constructor

METHOD

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new KnotMultiplicity(knot : Float, mult : Int)

Create a new KnotMultiplicity object params

• The knot position
• The multiplicity of the knot

inc

METHOD

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inc()

Increments the multiplicity of the knot

knot

PROPERTY

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knot : Float

The parameter of the knot

mult

PROPERTY

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mult : Int

The multiplicity (i.e. the number of repeated occurrences) of the given knot in a knot vector