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I think you missed his/her point... OP wasn't saying that Bézier curves in car models were something new. What OP said is that (as an example) latest car desing

I think you missed his/her point... OP wasn't saying that Bézier curves in car models were something new. What OP said is that (as an example) latest car desings are hard to do with constructive solid geometry but easy to do with B-rep

contingencies 11y ago
Haha! Smiles from the town of Béziers, Hérault, France... apparently no direct relation to the curve. From the AMS: Bézier curves are ubiquitous in computer graphics. They were introduced implicitly into theoretical mathematics long before computers, primarily by the French mathematician Charles Hermite and the Russian mathematician Sergei Bernstein. But it was only the work of Pierre Bézier, an employee of the automobile maker Renault, and of Paul de Casteljau, of Citroen, that made these curves familiar to graphics specialists. Recently, the polynomials defined by Bernstein have become again of interest to mathematicians. http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-bezier http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-bezier Wikipedia expands: Bézier curves were adopted as the standard curve of the PostScript language and subsequently were adopted by vector programs such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Inkscape. Most outline fonts, including TrueType and PostScript Type 1, are defined with Bézier curves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier#B.C3.A9zier_curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier#B.C3.A9zier_... ... though almost certainly CorelDraw (and Quark xPress?) came before Illustrator, and PostScript's popularization came through the rather embrace-and-extend PDF format it spawned. FWIW, I have fond memories of doing CSG with Povray - http://povray.org/ http://povray.org/ - as an 11 year old. When the supply of new DOS games ran out, it sure beat writing batch file viruses, the other primary form of entertainment.
- _jal 11y ago
  Illustrator was released in 1986, CorelDraw in 1989. I'm not sure why QuarkXPress is included (it is a page layout/desktop publishing tool, not an illustration tool), but it was released in 1987. Postscript became popular[1] well before any version of the PDF format existed. It was popularized by the Apple Laserwriter, the first printer to natively support it. [1] Well, I suppose it depends on what one means by 'popular'. I think creating the desktop publishing industry counts; YMMV.

contingencies 11y ago

Haha! Smiles from the town of Béziers, Hérault, France... apparently no direct relation to the curve. From the AMS: Bézier curves are ubiquitous in computer graphics. They were introduced implicitly into theoretical mathematics long before computers, primarily by the French mathematician Charles Hermite and the Russian mathematician Sergei Bernstein. But it was only the work of Pierre Bézier, an employee of the automobile maker Renault, and of Paul de Casteljau, of Citroen, that made these curves familiar to graphics specialists. Recently, the polynomials defined by Bernstein have become again of interest to mathematicians. http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-bezier http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-bezier Wikipedia expands: Bézier curves were adopted as the standard curve of the PostScript language and subsequently were adopted by vector programs such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Inkscape. Most outline fonts, including TrueType and PostScript Type 1, are defined with Bézier curves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier#B.C3.A9zier_curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier#B.C3.A9zier_... ... though almost certainly CorelDraw (and Quark xPress?) came before Illustrator, and PostScript's popularization came through the rather embrace-and-extend PDF format it spawned. FWIW, I have fond memories of doing CSG with Povray - http://povray.org/ http://povray.org/ - as an 11 year old. When the supply of new DOS games ran out, it sure beat writing batch file viruses, the other primary form of entertainment.

_jal 11y ago
Illustrator was released in 1986, CorelDraw in 1989. I'm not sure why QuarkXPress is included (it is a page layout/desktop publishing tool, not an illustration tool), but it was released in 1987. Postscript became popular[1] well before any version of the PDF format existed. It was popularized by the Apple Laserwriter, the first printer to natively support it. [1] Well, I suppose it depends on what one means by 'popular'. I think creating the desktop publishing industry counts; YMMV.