just a thought : the new looks for Reverse Engineering...object oriented-programming....not our concerns.

From: Innomation Systems & Technologies Pte. Ltd., (istpl@singnet.com.sg)
Date: Tue Nov 17 1998 - 19:19:00 EET


hi Dr. Razdan,

i agree with you that as the software development technologies had improved
tremendously to object-oriented-programming paradigm so should be the
surface nurbs patches.....but that will be a tremendously complex and
confusing issue...so the software developers should focus these area
without much of our concerns.

i think one important point that in the reverse engineering arena we should
focus at are :-
1) the types of applications that can be made useful...now medical
prototyping...how about police work.....forensic
development....post-plastic surgery planning, geographic digitisation and
many more.
2) the types of design problems that are present and not solved....or not
created yet. say designing a tooth implant that injects regularly liquid
drugs into the blood vessel for certain disorder or diseases.

an important point i think developers like Imageware, GeoMagic and
Innovmetric should consider as developing solutions for the problems i
mention above...and not following what the IT industries fad..like
COBRA...OO..Java.

what will be the value of having these latest codes...if the software
doesn't cater for the needs to solve the problems.
even at this stage which i look at Surfacer...it is a tremendous powerful
reverse engineering tool...but it has not been fully applied to all areas
yet...like forensic...plastic surgery etc.

hence, i think the focus should be on the development of applications and
not on the codings being used.

Sincerely,
joseph sim

Innomation Systems & Technologies Pte. Ltd.,
12, New Industrial Road, Thoren Technocentre
#06-03 Singapore - 536202
Republic of Singapore
Tel : 065-3828685
Fax : 065-3828658

For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jun 05 2001 - 22:47:15 EEST