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02:47.31 narnia knock, knock, anyone home? (this is not an auto-return, this is aslan typing from narnia. )
02:54.26 polyspin Just me
02:54.55 polyspin Haven't seen "brlcad" respond yet.
03:12.17 brlcad hello
03:27.47 polyspin Good evening.
03:27.53 polyspin I just sent a note off to Joab
03:31.54 polyspin So cool to have media coverage.
03:32.37 polyspin Have you taken a look at the "doxygen" output I dropped on the website?
03:35.32 [Prez|Kennedy] wait... who are you again polyspin??
03:35.32 polyspin Lee
03:36.00 [Prez|Kennedy] wheres the media coverage?
03:36.23 polyspin We've been contacted by someone from Government Computer News. No publication date yet.
03:37.39 [Prez|Kennedy] cool
03:38.44 polyspin way cool
03:38.49 polyspin bling
03:39.51 brlcad briefly looked at it
03:40.04 brlcad hozed my browser when I hit librt :)
03:40.32 polyspin brlcad: Yes, that's one MOBY web page.
03:40.57 brlcad i put up a cgi:irc over the weekend
03:41.10 brlcad irc.brlcad.org
03:41.35 brlcad it's a start
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03:42.32 polyspin nice. Works reasonably in mozilla
03:42.52 cad349 nobody listens to that polyspin dufus do they?
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03:43.35 brlcad :)
03:44.07 obligatory_test i dont keep the people interested enough in my channel
03:44.12 obligatory_test should close up shop
03:44.27 obligatory_test talking to myself gets boring there...
03:44.44 brlcad heh
03:44.49 obligatory_test the only time people go there is when they want something :-\
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03:47.16 polyspin too bad. from the freshmeat article it looks like a cool package.
03:54.46 [Prez|Kennedy] gotta check out the free webhosts once in awhile
03:58.01 brlcad woo hoo! .. got it working
03:58.33 brlcad PrezKennedy: offer still stands should you change your mind
03:59.22 PrezKennedy i just look in case i need to store crap somewhere :-)
03:59.45 brlcad 1% usage
04:00.29 PrezKennedy cant leave my current home...
04:00.40 PrezKennedy might do something else on .bz if its ok though
04:01.14 brlcad polyspin: it'd take video feeds or a lot more graphics
04:02.04 brlcad jpgraph is cool :)
04:02.10 polyspin wanna host the MacMod videos?
04:02.57 brlcad I was thinking maybe freebsd mirror
04:03.18 PrezKennedy brlcad, id like to do a wiki project.....
04:03.27 polyspin that's pretty low bandwidth.
04:03.47 brlcad looked into helping out wikipedia as a cache node
04:04.35 brlcad but they're presently shoveling almost 100Mbit/s in the US out of FL alone
04:05.05 brlcad which explains why there performance is crap
04:06.23 PrezKennedy its funny... whenever i read an article featured on their homepage i find something like "shit" or "fuck you" injected in the middle of a random paragraph
04:08.50 polyspin Hmm. the page on BRL-CAD is a little off. Mike started it in 1979.
04:09.31 polyspin I'll have to check that.
04:09.37 brlcad I added that
04:09.45 brlcad was referring to code commits
04:09.57 polyspin Got it.
04:10.19 polyspin I think Earl Weaver made the challenge to Mike in '79. I'll have to ask Earl.
04:10.32 polyspin That was the start of "vged"
04:17.23 polyspin 'nite all!
04:17.30 PrezKennedy good night!
04:23.03 brlcad wow, wasn't even close to thinking about sleep
04:23.16 PrezKennedy hey that logging turned out to be useful!
04:23.32 PrezKennedy awww man pick me up i have coupons!
04:23.33 brlcad which logging?
04:23.39 brlcad heh
04:23.58 brlcad you mean .bz's?
04:24.00 PrezKennedy the logging you warn about in the greeting
04:24.03 PrezKennedy yeah
04:24.37 brlcad I've had to use it a couple times to recall something I did
04:24.46 PrezKennedy yeah thats what im doing
04:24.59 brlcad only problem is the logs live in /var which doesn't have much disk space
04:25.06 jano eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww
04:25.08 jano McD's
04:25.10 jano yuck
04:25.11 jano :P
04:25.16 brlcad i've filled up /var twice already
04:25.35 brlcad need to link /var/log to /usr/var/log or something
04:25.39 jano McD's will fill more than /var
04:25.56 jano try /tmp and /dev/hdc[0-9]
04:26.02 jano :D
04:26.05 brlcad normally wouldn't have a mc'd craving, but I really do crave some fries for some reason
04:26.10 PrezKennedy well it all goes into /dev/null anyways
04:26.17 brlcad usually happens like once every 4 months :)
04:26.22 jano I'm sure you've heard the news about jason, eh?
04:26.32 brlcad yep :)
04:26.35 brlcad crazy
04:26.36 jano :)
04:26.55 PrezKennedy time to upload me some stuff and waste some space
04:27.03 brlcad yay
04:28.08 jano yeah
04:28.13 jano backups would be good
04:28.16 jano i need a place for phole
04:28.20 brlcad makes me nervous
04:28.33 jano our electricity bill is running through the roof
04:28.48 brlcad my box here actually rsyncs it, but it's not as ideal as I'd like
04:29.05 jano doesn't your service provider do backups?
04:29.30 brlcad if I purchase it
04:30.06 jano ah
04:30.13 brlcad mildly reasonable .. could do all of the existing data for a mere $10/month
04:30.35 jano *shrug*
04:30.42 jano how often they do backups?
04:30.49 jano dialy, weekly, monthly?
04:30.54 brlcad it'd be daily
04:30.59 jano very nice
04:31.22 brlcad the thing is I can have that all rsync to other systems here too
04:31.40 jano oo
04:31.45 jano rsync has some cool features
04:31.52 jano i like the rolling backups with hard links
04:31.59 jano that's some funky schtuff
04:32.19 jano I got a heart rate monitor watch today :D
04:32.40 jano so cool.. it like tells me if I'm working out too hard or not enough
04:32.45 brlcad I have it set up now so that it'll do a bidirectional sync of directories I specify
04:32.48 jano i feel like I've already lost two pounds
04:32.50 brlcad only a couple dirs in there
04:33.04 brlcad ahh, I love my heart rate monitor
04:33.07 brlcad which one did you get?
04:33.27 jano polar a5.. I originally bought the s120 for triathlon stuff, but it didn't have a backlight
04:33.39 jano the next one up was too expensive
04:33.47 jano which do you have?
04:35.16 brlcad polar s150
04:35.30 jano ah
04:35.37 jano yeah.. too expensive :)
04:35.54 brlcad got a great deal :)
04:35.57 jano lucky you!
04:36.05 brlcad and it's the base one geared for cylists
04:36.09 brlcad er, cyclists
04:36.19 jano the s series is for triathlon, no?
04:36.25 jano biking, swimming, running
04:36.26 brlcad still haven't programmed it for my wheel size or anything
04:36.35 jano i'm not allowed to bike :(
04:36.43 brlcad heh
04:36.52 brlcad yet you surf
04:37.05 jano can't go surfing yet because of the sun :(
04:37.13 jano this year started so good
04:38.01 brlcad http://www.polar.fi/polar/channels/eng/segments/Cycling/S150.html
04:38.41 brlcad i've worn it all day a couple times
04:39.01 jano http://www.polarusa.com/comparison/triathlon.html
04:39.25 brlcad seem to have a heart rate slightly higher than most
04:39.35 PrezKennedy whats the address again?
04:39.37 jano yeah, i remember we talked about that
04:39.41 PrezKennedy to get to public_html from the web?
04:40.27 jano you know what really ticked me off about polar?
04:40.34 brlcad yeah, I remember that chart
04:40.38 brlcad the others are way to expensive
04:40.41 jano their low-end models don't have a frickin' light
04:40.50 jano i like to go workout before dawn or after dark
04:40.51 brlcad though I would have liked the wireless bike sensor
04:41.02 PrezKennedy was it ~prezkennedy?
04:41.18 brlcad yep
04:41.26 PrezKennedy bzflag.bz/~prezkennedy?
04:41.27 brlcad er no
04:41.34 brlcad ~username
04:41.46 jano http://www.polarusa.com/consumer/walking/model/A5.asp <-- what I've got
04:41.48 PrezKennedy thats right
04:43.12 brlcad damn, I wanna go workout now
04:43.23 brlcad AND go to Mc
04:43.25 brlcad D's
04:43.41 jano hahah
04:44.11 jano eewww
04:44.12 brlcad hmm.. noticed last week that the one in abingdon is open 24-7 now
04:44.18 brlcad taco bell would work too
04:44.21 jano yucky poo
04:44.25 PrezKennedy theyre definitely open
04:44.27 brlcad must be a salt craving
04:44.28 jano del taco better
04:44.30 jano :P
04:44.39 jano del taco has really good hamburgers
04:44.42 jano :D
04:45.13 jano just have some pringles
04:45.19 jano mmm
04:48.00 brlcad i have crab chips in my car..
04:48.16 brlcad but the thought of those fries is driving me nuts
04:48.16 PrezKennedy so many shell accounts...
04:48.21 brlcad fries and some tacos
04:49.20 jano dude
04:49.30 jano I've had this aweful craving for blue crabs
04:50.35 jano i'm thinking about making a trip out there, this time in season
04:50.40 jano what do you think?
04:52.00 PrezKennedy yay i finally figured it out!
04:53.40 brlcad mm.. crabs
04:53.51 jano hmm
04:53.54 brlcad you'd see nettie all huge
04:53.58 jano yeah
04:54.04 jano that'd be worth it :D
04:54.05 jano but
04:54.12 jano i don't want to get in the way
04:54.14 jano dangit
04:54.32 jano i was gonna say wait until next year
04:54.41 jano but.. then they're actually going to have a child in the house
04:54.49 jano maybe I just stay in a hotel
04:56.19 PrezKennedy wow that fast...
04:56.47 narnia brlcad, hello, how goes it? i am coming to the conclusion that opencascade is not being maintained. i found two glaring errors in two of the source files that anyone should have been able to catch.
04:57.12 narnia brlcad, have you ever heard of 'names'?
04:58.09 jano bingo was his namo
05:00.19 narnia brlcad, http://www.modelengineeringsoc.com/Expo/expo16.html
05:01.06 narnia names == North American Model Engineering Society
05:01.49 narnia brlcad, the expo is where the guys from nists, fred proctor and others, show off enhanced machine controller.
05:02.15 narnia brlcad, it would also be a place to show off brl-cad. hint hint.
05:02.28 brlcad ahh
05:03.41 brlcad I follow the Solid Modeling assocation and a couple of the guys have presented papers there before, never heard of NAMES, though
05:03.46 narnia i have not been able to attend in years. not being able to drive sort of prevents my attending. :-(
05:04.04 brlcad ahh, not a conference.. just an expo? 8 bucks, wow.
05:04.57 narnia brlcad, all the model egineer geeks get together. sort of a 'dog and pony' show.
05:06.15 narnia you know what dod contractors are like . they but on a good 'dog and pony' show. or the 'cadillac' the prototype to show that they are able to build the item.
05:07.02 narnia well this is were the model engineer geeks put on their 'dog and pony' show.
05:36.46 narnia brlcad, just now finished compiling opencascade. the one sample app which will load a step file actually works. it is loading a step file for a yanmar diesel engine. step file 40+mbytes. good test to see if opencascade tanks or not. ;-)
05:42.07 narnia knock, knock, anyone home? (this is not an auto-return, this is aslan typing from narnia. )
05:46.02 brlcad ahh, so it worked
05:46.13 brlcad ?
05:47.41 narnia brlcad, ?????
05:49.23 narnia brlcad, the sample app is still loading the step file. last attempt took 2+hrs to load the 40+mbyte step file. this is on a 1.4ghz amd anthlon with 1gbyte of ram.
05:49.31 brlcad the step import/export worked?
05:49.43 brlcad good grief
05:49.49 brlcad that's horrible
05:51.44 narnia brlcad, well last attempted blew its brains out. ( seg fault ) i think i fix the code. i am not a c++ programmer. i am a c programmer.
05:52.17 narnia imho c++ just leads to bloatware.
05:52.31 brlcad heh
05:52.53 brlcad well brl-cad is one large and fairly well tuned c code :)
05:53.35 brlcad only bloat is probably in mged, and that's just because of tcl
05:53.36 narnia brlcad, brl-cad is near bulletproof.
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05:55.07 brlcad c++ has it's uses if done well
05:55.19 brlcad it's just so easy to use it poorly
05:55.26 narnia yes, which is extremely rare.
05:58.34 narnia still loading.
05:59.28 brlcad what license is opencascade under?
06:06.45 narnia brlcad, you would have to read it. it is a rather odd opensource public license.
06:07.28 narnia i doubt is is compatible with gnu gpl.
06:07.34 PrezKennedy grrr these tikiwiki people are killing me
06:08.40 PrezKennedy can it reach france?
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06:15.48 brlcad ls -la
06:15.49 narnia brlcad, well it finally loaded the step file and is displaying a wireframe of it. one minor program the diesel is resting on its fan blade. coordinate system must be hosed.
06:15.52 narnia :-(
06:16.09 brlcad ahh, fun
06:16.20 brlcad that's easy to fix though
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06:16.53 brlcad though if they're not open source, it's not much use either
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06:17.58 brlcad cept as a secondary conversion app
06:18.08 narnia i asked fred proctor at nist if he had a copy of the various iso step standards that i could borrow. i have not heard back from fred.
06:20.58 brlcad if they're as cheap as you mentioned to get a copy, that would be easy enough
06:21.36 brlcad it's just a matter of whether electronic copies are possible
06:21.47 narnia brlcad, yes.
06:22.00 narnia brlcad, pdf
06:22.13 brlcad hrm.. that implies..
06:22.40 narnia checkout www.ansi.org then find the webstore.
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06:59.34 narnia brlcad, which two axis are probably swapped? any idea?
07:01.40 narnia brlcad, more general question. in brl-cad x-axis is left-to-right, y-axis is front-to-back, z-axis is top-to-bottom. postive x-axis is which direction? positive y-axis is which direction? positive z-axis is which direction?
07:07.54 learner it's a "standard" right-hand coordinate system in brl-cad
07:08.14 learner images are first quadrant, which might take a while to get used to
07:10.33 learner so in rh, positive z is the cross-prod. of x to y axes
07:11.33 learner i.e. if you look at a top-down view, you are looking from positive to negative Z and standard 2d image quadrants apply (1st quadrand is positive x,y)
07:12.35 learner 2 | 1
07:12.40 learner -----
07:12.44 learner 3 | 4
07:20.10 narnia learner, okay got it.
07:21.35 narnia learner, i will run mged later today and figure it out.
07:27.10 learner more specific to your example: pos x would be on the left, positive y is in front, positive z is up top
07:32.45 learner http://db.bzflag.bz/tmp/coordinates.jpg
07:33.18 learner ack, ip change
07:34.08 learner http://ftp.brlcad.org/coordinates.jpg
07:47.38 narnia learner, that does not tell me anything about the relationship of the axis to the screen. is x-axis left to right or front-to-back? is y-axis left to right or front-to-back?
07:48.37 narnia learner, in either case x/y axis positive axis is into the screen.
07:48.58 learner huh? you can view it from any one of those axes
07:50.14 learner i.e. if you're looking down the Z axis, you're looking at +x on the right, -x on the left, y axis would be top-bottom
07:51.27 narnia yes that is true. but there is a 'world' view of the object. in cam/cnc/edm the z-axis is always top-to-bottom. the y-axis is normally the longer of the two axis x and y. the x-axis is the shorter of the two axis x and y.
07:52.24 learner ahh, you mean what is brl-cad's up vector
07:52.37 narnia yes
07:53.02 learner completely depends on the model :)
07:53.13 learner some are modeled with +z as up, some with +y
07:55.31 learner mged itself treats +z as up
07:57.26 learner so if you ask for a top view, it's a top-down view where you're looking down the Z axis from +z
07:58.40 narnia yes, than positve y-axis is into the screen and positive x-axis is to the right and positive z-axis is up/sky/top
08:00.44 learner not quite
08:00.53 learner positive y is out of the screen
08:01.30 narnia not according to the diagram you had earlier.
08:02.00 learner eh? .. it's almost showing you that already
08:02.07 learner +y is coming towards you.. out of the screen
08:02.17 learner +x is to the left, -x to the right
08:02.21 learner +z up
09:53.52 [Prez|Kennedy] movin to the new fileserver soon... gonna be faaaaaaast
10:23.32 brlcad movin to the old bed soon... gonna be sleeeping
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13:22.27 tjyang2001 where is the brlcad binaries for win32 ?
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23:03.13 brlcad ahh, a modeler
23:05.45 Griz_nite lol
23:05.49 Griz_nite hey there ;)
23:05.57 Griz_nite I'm thrilled
23:06.22 Griz_nite for ages and ages I'm using linux for everything else, but until recently I didn't find a CAD software that would do...
23:06.33 Griz_nite except for architectural stuff where cycas is quite good...
23:06.43 Griz_nite now be sure I'll try brlcad soon...
23:06.52 Griz_nite but for tonite it's getting late, and I'm off
23:06.58 Griz_nite goodnite :)

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