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by nynx 148 days ago
Breps. Nearly all commercial cad packages operate on boundary representations of objects.
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pca006132 148 days ago
Mesh is also a boundary representation. I think you meam NURBS.
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MITSardine 148 days ago
It's just the name, BREP stands for Boundary REPresentation.
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bob1029 148 days ago
I would start with CSG if you are new to these ideas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_solid_geometry

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