[rescue] BRL-CAD, anyone?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:18:58AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Has anyone used BRL-CAD recently?  It seems to support NURBS, Surface
> modeling, and CSG Solids.  I'm going to fax over my de-crypt request
> today, but was wondering if anyone has ever used it, and what their
> thoughts are.
> 
> URL:
> http://ftp.arl.army.mil/brlcad

I really am unhappy with the licensing of it.

It does stuff that is theoretically easy to program ones self.  Of
course, the trick as always is making a decent UI to go with the maths
and geometries.  Since this is supposedly used for real work, one
would expect that UI to be good.

Generally, I'm frustrated at the level of difficulty involved in
getting a hold of BRL-Cad, the visible human dataset, and the USGS
datasets.  There is all sorts of paper work and they charge simply
unbelievable media fees, and puts limits on what can be done with it.
What happened to government create IP being public domain?

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Joshua D. Boyd