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FAR Overview
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Feature Adaptive Representation (Far)
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Far is a serialized topoloigcal data representation.Far uses hbr to create and 
cache fast run time data structures for table driven subdivision of vertices and 
cubic patches for limit surface evaluation. `Feature-adaptive <subdivision_surfaces.html#feature-adaptive-subdivision>`__ 
refinement logic is used to adaptively refine coarse topology near features like 
extraordinary vertices and creases in order to make the topology amenable to 
cubic patch evaluation. Far is also a generic, templated algorithmic base API 
that clients in higher levels instantiate and use by providing an implementation 
of a vertex class. It supports these subdivision schemes:

Factories & Tables
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Subdivision Tables
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Patch Tables
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