NURBS in JOGL?

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#1

I’ve just discovered that JOGL does not support the GLU NURBS routines, which means I’m going to have to find another way to draw some NURBS curves. A search of the archives seems to suggest that this is indefinately postponed. I considered porting the NURBS code myself, but I can’t figure out how to compile JOGL, or add the new extensions.

What’s the status on NURBS? Will they be added to GLU in the near future?

#2

Sorry, but no, there are no near-term plans to expose the GLU NURBS routines. We looked into porting the associated C++ code to Java but this is an enormous task, and even binding the entry points to Java would require some significant enhancements to GlueGen due to the extensive use of callbacks in the API. Searching through this forum for “nurbs” turned up a post indicating that JGeom might be an alternative.