3D Modeling: Technical Articles and Resources
How to future-proof your modeling engine for freeform surfaces
Spatial Team | 04-05-2026
1. Hybrid geometry representations: pick one and lose Why a single representation is a trap Betting on a single geometry representation is probably the biggest architectural mistake we see teams ...
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What's Up With the GPU?
In my previous post I discussed the various multiprocessing technologies at my disposal. These are: OpenMP, MPI, PPL ...
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Subtleties of B-rep Translation (Part 2); Why Form Matters
'Form' in mathematics manifests itself in all manners of perspective and discussion. From your earliest mathematics ...
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How to Train Eight People Without a Trainer
John's recent post on documentation and behavior driven development reminded me of an interesting experience I had last ...
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Subtleties of B-rep Translation (Part 1); Why Sharing Matters
In my last post, I introduced our idea of B-rep Health and the notion of "legal" but bad B-rep modeling data. ...
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Beyond TDD
Today, I’ll be diving into alphabet soup of TLA’s. For this I apologize in advance – those TDD guys started it!! First ...
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How Healthy is Your B-rep?
We’ve known for a long time that the integrity of B-rep data plays a major role in the success of downstream modeling ...
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Managing the 16,777,217th Color
Here’s a quick poll: How many of you have figured out by now that 16,777,217 = 2^24+1, and that the "24" refers to the ...
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Thoughts on Agile - Epilogue
To finish up this series of posts; what Gregg's post described happened a few years ago. Since that first team room, ...
