almost 7 years ago by Prateek Shakya
A very good tutorial... Are there other ways to convert from meshes to surfaces?
Dan Robert Richardson over 5 years ago
wow
Arie Willem de Jongh almost 7 years ago
Hi Prateek!
This is a very a very complicated question and depends a lot on the topology of your mesh. Mainly it depends on the Genus or "how many holes" your mesh has. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus_(mathematics) and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_topology
There exists a geometry type called Subd (or T-spline) , that lies in between NURBS surfaces and meshes. Rhino is currently working on a solution for this. This geometry type let's you convert a Mesh to a Subd and then to a (Poly)Surface. Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivision_surface
Cheers,
Arie