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00:42.30 IriX64 urffff running on....
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00:52.32 brlcad IriX64: can you code?
00:52.44 brlcad or better put, are you interested in coding?
00:52.57 IriX64 i have a little experience.
00:53.20 brlcad and by code, I mean either C/C++/Tcl or even web development
00:53.22 IriX64 let me shutdown this thing im playing with.
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00:53.56 IriX64 i use c mixed with a little c++ know nothing about java or web html stuff.
00:54.41 IriX64 and a little asm too :)
00:55.12 IriX64 why the interest in me?
00:55.42 brlcad no rush, just wondering .. because if you can and you are interested, i'm sure there's some rather productive things you could jump into
00:56.16 IriX64 ahh the topic is for real then, if im interested in developing, i can get involved?
00:56.30 brlcad sure, anyone can get involved
00:56.50 brlcad the guidelines are pretty darn flexible
00:56.59 IriX64 ill think about it, i already have a pet project, but thanks.
00:57.08 brlcad just a thought
00:57.30 brlcad you seem to enjoy running the benchmarks.. there's several things that would be useful in that regard
00:57.42 IriX64 do a ver on me you probably already know what im doing.
00:58.11 IriX64 urrffff benchmarks, you assume much here.
00:58.37 brlcad s/benchmarks/ray-tracing/
00:58.47 IriX64 ahh
00:59.25 brlcad the brl-cad benchmark suite is based on ray-tracing as the domain metric, cpu-intensive task that exercises several core concepts
00:59.45 brlcad while being a real world app instead of just multiplying two number 50 billion times
01:00.16 brlcad that's where the rtfm number comes into play, as well as the other numbers listed
01:00.35 IriX64 theres a file transfer about to finish to your ftp.brlcad.org, called linuxbrlcad. built for a i586-unix-linux system, would appreciate feedback.
01:00.57 brlcad should be able to test that one easily enough
01:01.16 brlcad sure it's not for a cray 2 ? :)
01:01.25 IriX64 thankyou should create a diirectory call linuxbrlcad, put it anywhere.
01:01.41 brlcad what prefix did you compile it for?
01:01.43 IriX64 not unless i sent you the wrong file ;)
01:01.51 IriX64 linuxbrlcad
01:02.01 brlcad you did --prefix=linuxbrlcad ?
01:02.13 IriX64 =/usr/linuxbrlcad
01:02.17 brlcad ahh
01:03.02 brlcad then the compile-time root is /usr/linuxbrlcad, BRLCAD_ROOT has to be set if it's relocated anywhere else
01:03.21 IriX64 why do you throttle your server, busy system?
01:03.38 IriX64 well do it :)
01:03.41 brlcad which server? ftp?
01:03.44 IriX64 yes
01:03.50 brlcad it's not throttled
01:04.00 IriX64 15kbps
01:04.11 brlcad nor in the least bit busy network-wise
01:04.30 IriX64 file xfer finished, let me know.
01:04.44 fenn so i spent 5 or 6 hours looking around at various GUI and scenegraph libraries last night
01:04.56 fenn and didnt find any i liked :(
01:05.12 IriX64 was about to ask you and came up with?
01:05.33 IriX64 :)
01:06.13 brlcad fenn: =)
01:06.31 fenn i guess i dont know whether to try to use brl-cad's built-in picking and display algorithms or ...
01:06.51 IriX64 begs the question whats scenegraph? :)
01:06.59 brlcad it's an epidemic problem.. nothing is really great at anything and every one of them are generally seriously lacking in some regard
01:07.17 fenn a data structure used to render stuff on the screen quickly
01:07.26 fenn you can prune off branches that aren't visible for instance
01:07.37 fenn but brlcad sorta has something like that already
01:07.51 IriX64 i like your shift grips scaling manner.
01:07.58 IriX64 so easy
01:08.18 IriX64 that help button saved me :)
01:08.58 fenn brlcad: can i assume that 3 button mice (or at least 2 buttons) are available on all platforms?
01:09.01 brlcad fenn: even brl-cad's picking and display code has it's share of warts and deficiencies to say the least
01:09.48 IriX64 fenn put it in (ducking and running)
01:09.52 brlcad brl-cad's concept of a display manager is a good one, very nice for making relatively no assumptions about a display.. but it's feature-lacking in terms of flexibility of a gui
01:09.53 fenn i think i want to copy a large part of blender's UI
01:10.23 IriX64 hey you dont like it make it better.
01:10.27 brlcad blender's ui layer is actually a fairly self-contained chunk of code in a library iirc
01:11.19 IriX64 smoke break.
01:12.34 brlcad for scenegraph management, there's one project that really has a lot of momentum going -- openscenegraph
01:12.53 brlcad context and gui/widget management, however, is another story
01:12.56 fenn yeah that and ogre3d
01:13.06 fenn they're both humongous monsters though
01:13.17 brlcad ogre's nice.. but it has a series of other issues
01:14.36 brlcad i have a list of notes somewhere when I was doing extensive evaluation of a lot of packages several months back.. should put it up on a wiki or something
01:15.17 brlcad one thing I did like from ogre was cegui
01:15.32 fenn hehe me too
01:15.38 brlcad that eddie has got a crazy library going there
01:17.32 brlcad ogre's performance is less than optimal by quite a bit, their design is pretty clean/nice, platform support is unfortunately limited from what we're used to needing, license is good
01:18.11 fenn how is it less than optimal?
01:19.32 brlcad they're working on mild game environments, relatively optimized low polygon counts, and getting "middle" okay framerates
01:20.14 brlcad add in something nice and complex like you'd often have on a CAD part and it goes through the floor, had some little test programs, test models
01:20.37 fenn hm
01:20.38 brlcad i'm sure it's probably something fixable, and hardware will of course pick up.. that wasn't a critical concern, just noteworthy
01:21.00 brlcad platform support was more disconcerting actually
01:21.05 fenn and you didnt have this problem with openscenegraph?
01:22.45 brlcad yeah, performance was considerably better albeit without some of the bells and whistles ogre can do. osg doesn't have the platform problems iirc too or very many external dependencies
01:23.22 brlcad biggest issue that comes to mind sans notes is that they didn't have as clean an api, and they were "bigger" and slightly more complex
01:23.29 fenn thing is we don't need 90% of the bells 'n whistles ogre can do
01:23.31 brlcad not nearly as complex a beast as crystalspace
01:23.35 brlcad yep
01:24.03 brlcad ogre is primarily a rendering engine according to the devs I spoke with, not even a gaming engine first
01:24.16 fenn seems like libraries should post a list of dependencies on the front page
01:25.45 brlcad they really should, i had to really dig on some projects
01:25.59 brlcad looking into things like their debian spec sheet to find the list
01:26.10 fenn yikes
01:26.11 brlcad or their freebsd ports entry
01:26.40 brlcad don't recall ogre's deps being bad
01:26.53 brlcad it did end up in my top 5
01:27.30 ``Erik *yawn*
01:27.50 ``Erik ewie
01:29.21 ``Erik I think I forgot to commit before I left today
01:55.28 IriX64 green text on a black background ... nice
01:57.10 IriX64 hahaha mircdcc?
01:59.00 IriX64 might become my new favorite client.
01:59.59 brlcad which is that?
02:00.08 IriX64 irssi
02:00.14 brlcad ahh, good good
02:00.26 IriX64 nice client.
02:00.34 brlcad very nice
02:00.49 IriX64 well behaved lots of toys etc. :)
02:01.17 IriX64 rehash? this thing has a bot?
02:02.52 IriX64 in a galaxy far far away, .... client wars :)
02:03.40 IriX64 well theres a code generator calling me, ill go into lurk mode.
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02:39.26 *** topic/#brlcad is http://brlcad.org/ || BRL-CAD is an open source solid modeling software suite || Developers needed! Read the HACKING file for details on getting involved
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03:25.19 fenn surf's up dude.. ride the netsplit like you just don't care
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05:02.05 IriX64_ erf
05:02.19 IriX64_ is nickserv down?
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15:03.15 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/include/ (db5.h raytrace.h rtgeom.h): claiming a number for metaballs
15:03.42 clock_ erik always does O_o
15:03.48 ``Erik bull fuckin shit
15:03.49 ``Erik o.O
15:03.54 clock_ OK o.O
15:03.56 ``Erik see, a dot, not an underscore
15:03.59 ``Erik O.o
15:04.16 clock_ what does it actually mean?
15:04.28 ``Erik either a cocked eyebrow, or a 'bill the cat' look
15:05.21 ``Erik http://www.chimique.usherbrooke.ca/crtp/profs/Bill.jpg
15:06.16 clock_ funny
15:06.31 clock_ what does cocked eyebrow mean?
15:07.13 ``Erik http://publish.uwo.ca/~jpalmer/images/cocked%20eyebrow.jpg
15:07.25 ``Erik g00gle r0x0rz
15:07.45 clock_ yes I know what cocked eyebrow looks like but what does it mean?
15:08.08 ``Erik I d'no *shrug* :D
15:08.12 ``Erik I just like makin' faces
15:08.31 clock_ OK that's a reasonable explanation :)
15:10.26 clock_ ``Erik: are you also a surfer like brlcad>?
15:11.19 ``Erik nyet
15:11.47 ``Erik <-- couch potato
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15:19.08 IriX64 ermf the cygwin effort aborts when you press control c to abort a paste :)
15:19.46 ``Erik erm, ^c is SIGTERM
15:20.06 IriX64 why doesnt it die in the unix environment then.
15:20.27 ``Erik cuz it runs detached? *shrug*
15:20.58 IriX64 bash: IriX64@hagars-py0qj2wb: command not found
15:21.27 IriX64 here it did not even ask for confirmation.
15:24.20 IriX64 $ usage: autossh [-M monitor_port] [-f] [SSH_OPTIONS]
15:24.30 IriX64 what gives here?
15:24.57 IriX64 in the win environment it asks for confirmation on a paste, here nada.
15:25.09 clock_ ``Erik: do you work at the same place as brlcad?
15:25.51 IriX64 perhaps i should take this to #irssi :)
15:26.04 ``Erik same building, yeah
15:30.52 clock_ ``Erik: yes cracks will develop in the CPUs
15:32.02 ``Erik I've seen issues with brlcad's build system going TOO parallel...
15:34.17 clock_ then aren't the dependencies badly written?
15:39.37 brlcad more than likely a make race-condition bug
15:40.52 ``Erik or I did something stupid or had an nfs blowout
15:41.05 ``Erik sean, do you review all the commits?
15:41.10 brlcad yeah
15:41.26 ``Erik ok, so if I oops, you'll let me know
15:41.36 brlcad careful on those MAX id defines.. one of them is the max define for the primitive lookup table
15:41.57 ``Erik hm, both were 36, and I bumped 'em both...
15:41.59 brlcad which is an array.. and if you don't add the table entry, it's going to segfault
15:42.10 ``Erik librt/table.c ?
15:42.18 brlcad yeah
15:42.50 ``Erik hm
15:42.57 ``Erik so I should throw a skeleton in quick
15:43.24 brlcad i'm rather concerned about a comment I left in..
15:43.27 brlcad "Add a new primitive id above here (this is will break v5 format)"
15:44.46 brlcad i don't recall that being the case, have to think about it some more and test it
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15:45.07 brlcad but yeah, should throw in a skeleton table entry, even if they're all nul
15:52.34 ``Erik doink
15:52.56 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/src/librt/ (g_metaball.c Makefile.am table.c): initial metaball support (skeletal)
15:53.45 clock_ g_meatball.c ;-)
15:53.59 ``Erik yup, meatballs
15:54.11 ``Erik on top of spaghetti... all covered with cheese...
15:58.34 ``Erik damnit, now I'm hungry
15:58.40 ``Erik I want swedish meatballs... :(
15:59.14 ``Erik if vegetarians only eat vegetables, what's a humanitarian eat?
16:00.18 clock_ only humans
16:00.19 ValarQ i'm a bit of a second grade vegetarian, i only eat vegetarians
16:00.30 clock_ vegetarianarian
16:00.35 ValarQ :)
16:01.15 clock_ o.O strikes again
16:01.20 ``Erik valarq: you don't eat pig or fish?
16:01.35 clock_ meatarian is who doesn't eats vegetables only meat
16:01.52 ValarQ ``Erik: only pigs and fish that eat vegetables
16:02.19 clock_ better to figure out a whole family tree of the food
16:02.27 ``Erik how do you know?
16:02.33 clock_ what if the vegetables grow on a cemetery?
16:02.35 ValarQ i don't
16:02.45 clock_ they grow up from meat
16:03.00 clock_ cemetarian - ets only zombies :)
16:03.01 ValarQ isn't it ok to wrongly assume things? :o)
16:03.21 ``Erik opposed to a cementarian?
16:03.28 clock_ Hi. I am 103 years old so I am a so called cemetarian :)
16:03.47 ``Erik mmm, cement, yummy
16:06.31 ``Erik bitch
16:06.42 brlcad heh
16:06.49 ``Erik I think I'm skipping lunch today
16:07.02 brlcad have to go tag/title the blue whale
16:07.08 clock_ there is some saying something like that if someone is cute that he's like to be eaten or something like that
16:07.10 ``Erik if I go to duclaws, I'll wanna stop by home and take my growlers...
16:07.11 clock_ how is it exactly?
16:07.31 brlcad never heard that saying
16:07.31 ``Erik "so cute you could just eat him up?" said by ancient blue-haired women?
16:07.40 brlcad ahh
16:07.49 clock_ only ancient blue-haired women say that?
16:08.00 brlcad "he's so cute, I could just eat him [alive]"
16:08.12 ``Erik when they bust out a knife and fork, RUN
16:09.27 ``Erik you only eat surfers?
16:09.29 clock_ when I was a kid I realized that if you stick a magnet into sand, it will pull out little iron grains out.
16:09.45 clock_ There is so little iron grains in the sand that I don't see them and think there are actually no iron grains
16:10.05 ValarQ http://arda.no-ip.org/blocket_340.jpg
16:10.10 ValarQ there's one :)
16:10.15 clock_ ``Erik: do you know any other class of cute boys?
16:11.55 ``Erik <-- doesn't look for cute boys, ain't that way, sorry
16:13.55 brlcad mm.. surfer instructor girl.. I would have probably enjoyed that
16:14.14 clock_ brlcad: should I inform her?
16:14.19 clock_ brlcad: she looks cute
16:14.30 ``Erik heh, hell of a drive, though...
16:14.36 brlcad is she within driving distance? :)
16:14.45 clock_ brlcad: depends on how strong is your sexual drive
16:15.09 brlcad heh
16:15.30 clock_ brlcad: I guess you must be doing the lifting also for a similar purpose, don't you? :)
16:16.23 ``Erik heh, do you lift to get the sort of gay boys that clock likes, dude?
16:16.25 ``Erik :>
16:16.57 clock_ ``Erik: in brlcad case it will probably translate to girls
16:17.18 ``Erik hehehe I d'no, he dresses too snappy... I'm kinda wondering
16:17.27 ``Erik *duck* :D
16:17.33 clock_ snappy means what? smart?
16:18.06 ValarQ heh
16:20.59 ``Erik hrmph, none of my graphics books talk about metaballs
16:21.25 AbsTradELic hi
16:22.02 clock_ AbsTradELic: hi your name sounds Czech
16:22.03 brlcad jeans and a clean shirt is snappy? heh
16:23.33 AbsTradELic ok... hi all !
16:23.50 AbsTradELic its my first time become here
16:24.01 AbsTradELic I found the project on web
16:24.25 AbsTradELic and found refers to this irc channel
16:24.54 AbsTradELic I have difficulties with english dialet, but I know the sufficient to understand
16:25.14 ``Erik yeah, you and your CLEAN tshirts, wtf
16:25.25 clock_ dialect, a nice name for a world language :)
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16:26.29 IriX64 bugs in x11 (moved to ultra mega lightyears backburner) :)
16:26.32 brlcad AbsTradELic: howdy, and yes sufficient to understand
16:26.59 clock_ AbsTradELic: your english is actually quite good
16:27.13 AbsTradELic tnk u
16:27.30 AbsTradELic my native language is portuguese
16:27.38 AbsTradELic and I live in brazil
16:27.46 brlcad AbsTradELic: aunque parece que eres de brazil, yo entiendo espanol si te conviene
16:28.10 AbsTradELic brlcad: english is better to me
16:28.16 brlcad for me to ;)
16:28.31 ``Erik yo quiero taco bell, nacho grande burrito supreme spaghetti
16:28.43 AbsTradELic eeheeehee
16:28.46 brlcad mm.. spagetti sounds good
16:28.57 IriX64 watch it ``Erik that last word is me ;)
16:28.58 clock_ supreme spaghetti even better
16:29.03 ``Erik "damnit, beavis, that's not even spanish! go to the principals office!"
16:29.29 brlcad IriX64: you're a noodle?
16:29.38 brlcad covered in sauce?
16:29.40 IriX64 yeah and a meatball :)
16:29.43 clock_ AbsTradELic: have you had Czech Ancestors so your name is Vladimir?
16:29.57 clock_ meatball in graphic book. Too graphic book.
16:29.58 AbsTradELic nops
16:30.04 clock_ AbsTradELic: then Russian?
16:30.14 IriX64 ahh come its all light teasing.
16:30.26 brlcad light seasoning?
16:30.35 ``Erik don't make him go all impaler on your ass, clock :)
16:30.46 clock_ ``Erik: what does impaler mean?
16:30.52 IriX64 heh
16:30.56 ``Erik um, 'vlad the impaler'?
16:31.02 AbsTradELic I really dont understand why my dad put this name in me
16:31.08 IriX64 val the stick
16:31.20 IriX64 sos the rope.
16:31.21 clock_ AbsTradELic: but it sounds really cool
16:31.33 clock_ Vladimir de Almeida
16:32.00 ``Erik basarab?
16:32.01 AbsTradELic Vladimir de Almeida Fernandes
16:32.06 clock_ even better
16:32.15 IriX64 ValarQ what are you running your irssi if i may ask?
16:32.22 IriX64 on i mean.
16:32.42 clock_ AbsTradELic: and do you have some problem with brlcad?
16:32.42 brlcad any relation to Laurindo Almeida (famous classic guitarist)?
16:33.05 IriX64 os?
16:33.06 brlcad heh, bombarded with personal questions and the guy just wants to talk about cad :)
16:33.36 clock_ AbsTradELic: are you gay?
16:33.44 AbsTradELic I have downloaded the brlcad and uncompress it into my usr/local/src
16:33.45 IriX64 p?=sop :)
16:34.12 brlcad clock_: not exactly appropriate to toss sexuality into the mix out of the blue :P
16:34.16 AbsTradELic its a compiled to ia32
16:34.34 IriX64 ia32=?
16:34.37 clock_ brlcad: it's harmless. A heterosexual says "no" and a homosexual sends a quesry
16:34.39 clock_ query
16:34.46 ``Erik ia32 is intel arch 32... pentiums, etc...
16:34.53 IriX64 ty
16:34.56 brlcad perhaps harmless, still inappropriate in that manner for here
16:35.15 IriX64 won't canonicalize ``Erik :)
16:35.17 ``Erik put your willy away, clock, we got tech talk goin'... :)
16:35.36 clock_ brlcad: yes but if you say a remark about girls, it's also sexuality (a majority one)
16:35.42 AbsTradELic allright here ?
16:35.47 clock_ brlcad: so is talking about girls forbidden here?
16:35.52 brlcad AbsTradELic: if you downloaded a binary distribution of brl-cad, it expects to be installed into /usr/brlcad
16:36.11 AbsTradELic I'll move it
16:36.11 brlcad clock_: i didn't say talking about it is forbidden.. bringing it up out of the blue can be
16:36.17 clock_ ``Erik: homosexuality is not only about willy. It's about emotions, too. This one was about sexuality, and not mine :)
16:36.34 clock_ brlcad: OK if bringing girls out of the blue is not appropriate, then I admmit my fault.
16:37.24 brlcad clock_: i mean we've clearly talked about both in the past, usually a gradual change of topic .. that however just wasn't gradual, especially to a new channel "visitor"
16:37.28 ``Erik AbsTradELic: did you make sure to get the binaries for the right operating systme, aw well? FreeBSD binaries will not run on Linux... etc...
16:37.42 ``Erik s/aw/as/
16:37.50 brlcad if it had been a girl and ``Erik started hitting on her asking age etc, it would have been just as inappropriate imho
16:38.03 ``Erik !~#!~@ A/S/L~!!!!
16:38.05 brlcad not that he does that :)
16:38.05 ``Erik *duck*
16:38.08 brlcad heh
16:38.23 AbsTradELic ``Erik: ;)
16:38.26 IriX64 well you are entitled to an opion no matter how wrong it may be brlcad :)
16:38.40 clock_ brlcad: or download the source. It compiles fine. The README says how to compile but I guess it's just ./configure && make && make install
16:38.47 clock_ then it tells you to put some path into the PATH
16:38.58 clock_ so you do it and then run "mged" and it will start up
16:39.34 brlcad IriX64: right or wrong, my opinion prevails in this particular forum
16:39.39 clock_ AbsTradELic: you can put the path into /etc/profile, /etc/env.d or ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc (depends on operating system and how it's set up)
16:39.47 IriX64 mea cupa :)
16:39.56 AbsTradELic ``Erik: linux
16:40.03 AbsTradELic its allright here
16:40.57 clock_ AbsTradELic: which one? Gentoo? Debian?
16:41.09 AbsTradELic slackware
16:41.29 clock_ AbsTradELic: do you know where to put the BRLCAD_PATH or how it's called?
16:41.38 brlcad i have several girl friends i know on irc that get "attacked" when they go into channels, quite something I won't tolerate regardless of the gender .. the conversation can always be taken private or to a different channel ;)
16:42.28 AbsTradELic can I put it on /etc/rc.d/rc.loal
16:42.30 AbsTradELic ?
16:42.30 clock_ brlcad: yes but my question is basically a query into the replicator configuration register - the same sort as "are you a girl or a boy"?
16:42.45 AbsTradELic *rc.local
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16:43.07 clock_ AbsTradELic: yes that should work. Put it there, reboot and see if PATH is ammended.
16:43.13 clock_ Otherwise put it into your /home/user/.profile
16:43.15 brlcad DTRemenak: are you a girl or a boy
16:43.31 brlcad clock_: see that's a wierd thing to ask out of the blue too ;)
16:43.33 clock_ Try to log into a console and then X Window System. It should be in both. If it isn't you have to tamper with the files until it is
16:43.38 AbsTradELic plz, wait me to fine adjusts
16:43.48 brlcad just happens that I sort of know DTRemenak fortunately, so it's all in good fun
16:44.18 DTRemenak brlcad: ...
16:44.23 brlcad heh
16:44.27 clock_ DTRemenak: your name sounds Czech
16:44.37 DTRemenak clock_: close...anglicized polish
16:45.22 clock_ brlcad: OK if asking about boy and girl is weird, then fully accept. Mea culpa.
16:45.45 clock_ AbsTrAWAY: sorry if my question caused you a mental block or something like that
16:46.01 ValarQ IriX64: i run irssi on my computer
16:46.48 ValarQ IriX64: AMD64 X2 with Gentoo GNU/Linux
16:47.05 brlcad DTRemenak: heh, a_delusion comes to mind for some reason
16:47.22 IriX64 does it ask for confirm on paste attempt ValarQ?
16:47.38 DTRemenak heh
16:47.46 brlcad clock_: no big deal
16:48.11 clock_ brlcad: if I behave this way, people get pissed. If I don't, I can miss some boy
16:48.46 brlcad clock_: maybe get to know them first, just a little more slowly ;)
16:48.57 IriX64 arithimetic-shift-left-shift-right 102 why ``Erik?
16:49.05 clock_ For a gay gue probably even a worse nightmare than being buried alive :)
16:49.19 ``Erik book two of the brlcad manual, 'introduction to mged'
16:49.50 clock_ brlcad: yes I could lose them because of recoil, that makes sense
16:49.55 ValarQ IriX64: yeah, i don't know how it works thought
16:50.59 IriX64 ValarQ: thanks. :( mine no longer does.
16:51.26 IriX64 ahhh well call it a feature, no nag :)
16:51.34 ValarQ IriX64: it might depend on the terminal used
16:51.36 clock_ brlcad: AbsTrAWAY basically needs to install either binary or source, and then set the PATH, is it right?
16:51.55 IriX64 bash is a terminal ;)
16:52.05 ValarQ IriX64: no, it isn't
16:52.07 ``Erik bash is a shell, a terminal is a terminal
16:52.25 IriX64 still talks to the shell.
16:52.46 ValarQ IriX64: the apps doesn't
16:52.54 IriX64 so where does the terminal beging and the shell end :)
16:53.04 IriX64 begin
16:53.09 AbsTradELic ok... PATH environment adjusted
16:53.22 AbsTradELic /usr/brlcad/bin
16:53.25 AbsTradELic added
16:53.27 clock_ AbsTradELic: cool try to type mged do some windows pop up?
16:53.41 IriX64 you could just have changed dir to /usr/brlcad/bin and done a ./mged
16:53.42 ValarQ IriX64: a shell only interprets commands
16:53.50 clock_ AbsTradELic: 2 windows should pop up
16:54.12 brlcad clock_: technically don't need to set PATH either, but then you have to type /usr/brlcad/bin/mged instead of just mged
16:54.29 clock_ brlcad: does it find it's own files then?
16:54.29 brlcad yes
16:54.31 IriX64 ValarQ: and a terminal does nothing but communicate with the shell or app.
16:54.48 ``Erik *grouse* this book does not tell me what I want to know. I must whup up on lee when he gets back for this...
16:55.03 ValarQ IriX64: quite true, but the app doesn't talk very much with the shell
16:55.07 IriX64 ``Erik, try the bibel :)
16:55.29 IriX64 ValarQ: like make ;)
16:55.35 IriX64 bible too.
16:56.33 IriX64 my vucom1 is on the fritz :)
16:57.41 AbsTradELic appear
16:58.03 AbsTradELic 2 window pop up
16:58.20 AbsTradELic command window and graphic window
17:01.52 AbsTradELic ok
17:02.08 clock_ AbsTradELic: wget http://ronja.twibright.com/3d/railing.g
17:02.11 clock_ AbsTradELic: mged railing.g
17:02.15 clock_ in mged type B railing
17:02.25 clock_ (without the word type)
17:02.57 clock_ AbsTradELic: you should see an image of some engineering crap
17:03.21 brlcad heh :)
17:03.25 AbsTradELic ok
17:03.35 AbsTradELic just a few
17:03.35 clock_ brlcad: if I type rt the whole screen blanks for a while and then it returns and nothing is raytraced
17:03.46 clock_ brlcad: I have OpenBSD 3.9
17:03.59 brlcad there are also a lot of simple example geometry databases installed in /usr/brlcad/share/brlcad/7.8.0/db/
17:04.19 brlcad clock_: hmm.. X11 display depth bug
17:04.28 brlcad clock_: try "rt -F/dev/Xl" instead
17:04.29 clock_ brlcad: bug of X or brlcad?
17:04.36 brlcad both
17:05.13 brlcad and that's ex-ell, not ex-one
17:05.14 clock_ brlcad: lol works
17:05.25 AbsTradELic clock_: ops, problem... I dont see nothing
17:05.40 clock_ AbsTradELic: not eve wire frame?
17:05.51 AbsTradELic nothing
17:05.53 clock_ AbsTradELic: do you have file railing.g?
17:05.54 brlcad so, something wrong with the opengl interface on your system.. it's not a new problem, saw it years ago but haven't seen it since to debug it
17:06.04 AbsTradELic clock_: yes
17:06.16 clock_ AbsTradELic: and you typed B railing in mged?
17:06.36 AbsTradELic mged railling.g
17:06.45 clock_ AbsTradELic: but in mged you have to type B railing
17:06.47 clock_ that draws the thing
17:07.02 AbsTradELic huM!
17:07.04 brlcad B is the "delete everything else and draw" command
17:07.11 brlcad e is the simple draw command
17:07.12 AbsTradELic just a few
17:07.33 brlcad there's also a draw command (equivalent to e)
17:07.46 clock_ brlcad: yes but I am a lamer so I don't know that
17:08.02 brlcad "tops" will tell you what top-level geometry are in the file hierarchy that are likely of interest
17:08.22 brlcad since brl-cad's .g files are not necessarily 1-model per file
17:08.27 AbsTradELic clock_: Now I see
17:08.31 AbsTradELic I'm seeing
17:08.34 clock_ AbsTradELic: so you have working brlcad
17:08.46 AbsTradELic clock_: ;)
17:08.51 AbsTradELic ok
17:09.00 brlcad AbsTradELic: this may be of help: http://ftp.brlcad.org/MGED_Quick_Reference_Card.pdf
17:10.02 clock_ brlcad: oh that's terrific who made it? He should get a Nobel Prize for a Reference Card
17:10.02 AbsTradELic ok... downloading
17:10.24 AbsTradELic download completed
17:10.40 brlcad clock_: second page, at the bottom
17:11.01 brlcad technically, back of the first page, it's meant to be printed on heavy glossy stock paper
17:11.07 brlcad double-sided
17:11.30 brlcad there's also http://ftp.brlcad.org/MGED_Quick_Reference_Trifold_Card.pdf for folks that want to fold it up
17:11.30 ``Erik brlcad: mged interface wise, should I be looking at 'pipe'? or is there a better one to look at?
17:11.47 brlcad ``Erik: pipe's probably a good one
17:12.18 brlcad especially given it's variable arguments too
17:12.45 ``Erik that's exactly what I'm looking for... jason said bot's don't have ui interface, and sketch is horrible, so pipe is the best for that feature...
17:12.58 ``Erik so'z I'm seein' if that's right or if there's a better one :)
17:13.04 brlcad probably not
17:13.14 brlcad i mean, probably not a better one ..
17:13.26 ``Erik ok, now for the dangerous question... are there docs on pipe? :D
17:13.48 brlcad yeah, pipe is covered in the advanced tutorial (vol III iirc)
17:14.19 brlcad otherwise, rtfs ;)
17:14.26 clock_ brlcad: actually I think I already once asked about a screw, didn't I?
17:14.55 brlcad clock_: i believe you did, though the details pass me
17:15.13 clock_ brlcad: me too, unfortunately ;-)
17:15.15 brlcad i think it was a curvature on curvature problem, which isn't easily done
17:15.36 brlcad unless you mean threading on a non-tapering bolt.. that's somewhat tractable
17:15.40 clock_ you said something about half toroids or something like that
17:15.48 clock_ yes non tapering
17:16.25 brlcad yeah, pattern tool would certainly help
17:16.35 AbsTradELic to render it ?
17:16.35 brlcad a linear repeat up a cylinder
17:17.02 brlcad AbsTradELic: File->Raytrace Control Panel or simply type "rt -F/dev/Xl" in the command window
17:18.27 brlcad ``Erik: dwayne is a demigod when it comes to using pipes if you want some really useful interactive face-time
17:18.58 brlcad pretty efficient with them
17:19.04 ``Erik just need a rough idea of the interface... but if I'm stuck goin' 'huhh?', I'll wander over
17:19.54 clock_ O.o
17:19.57 brlcad i'd worry about getting the typein interface done first .. that will at least get you going
17:21.07 AbsTradELic ok
17:22.41 AbsTradELic and the project age ?
17:23.19 clock_ AbsTradELic: 25+
17:23.32 clock_ AbsTradELic: developed by US Army
17:24.01 AbsTradELic 25 years ?
17:24.09 clock_ yes
17:24.13 clock_ brlcad: how much is it actually?
17:24.19 ``Erik '79, yo
17:25.07 ``Erik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brlcad
17:25.08 AbsTradELic and the source opened ?
17:25.40 ``Erik late '04
17:27.47 brlcad project started in '79, first release was circa '83/'84
17:28.04 brlcad open-sourced on the day before christmas eve, 2004
17:28.15 clock_ brlcad: xmas gift?
17:28.27 brlcad of sorts :)
17:28.35 clock_ brlcad: that's brutal to opensource such a huge thing :)
17:29.00 brlcad it took years of finagling, meetings, discussions, legalities, technicalities
17:29.13 brlcad almost five years actually
17:29.23 clock_ brlcad: working with BRL-CAD that's a great feeling compared to all those other modeller things
17:30.03 brlcad it's a great codebase, even if the mged modeler is not so great
17:30.21 clock_ like if a surfer was given duke kahanamoku's board :)
17:30.26 brlcad oh, i'm not identified..
17:30.41 brlcad damn splits
17:31.42 AbsTradELic brlcad work fine with arquiteture projects ?
17:31.43 clock_ brlcad: big codebase that doesn't bloat the system
17:31.54 brlcad AbsTradELic: sure should
17:32.25 AbsTradELic construction architeture projects ?
17:32.37 brlcad clock_: yeah.. that's one thing, there's a definite lack of code bloat even for it's massive size .. maybe a hint of command-bloat, but there was generally a need for all of them
17:33.08 clock_ brlcad: I don't have problem with the commands
17:33.23 brlcad AbsTradELic: it has been used in several architecture projects in the past .. though one thing it does not do that's worth mentioning in advance is drafting
17:33.39 brlcad i.e. you're not going to get dimensioned blue-prints out of it - wasn't designed for that
17:33.55 brlcad clock_: have you used more than mged and rt? :)
17:33.58 brlcad and rtedge..
17:34.04 ValarQ thats the biggest drawback
17:34.36 clock_ brlcad: yes, rtweight
17:34.44 brlcad yeah, everyone sees cad and expects autocad, not realizing that's just one of about five major niche markets (although drafting is the biggest)
17:34.57 brlcad clock_: so .. only 396 to go ;)
17:35.01 ValarQ is it possible to store ortographic views in brlcad?
17:35.26 brlcad you can save/load arbitrary views using the saveview/loadview commands
17:35.42 ValarQ is it stored in the database then?
17:35.54 brlcad those can be stashed into the .g file, but there's no formality for getting mged to recognize them there yet
17:36.03 brlcad normally they are simply stashed in outboard files
17:36.06 ValarQ mged isn't important
17:36.33 brlcad but *any* file can be stashed into the .g as an object (binunif)
17:36.52 ValarQ oh, ok
17:36.55 clock_ brlcad: I think it would be OK if brlcad could export the lines from given orthographics projection like DXF
17:37.04 clock_ one could add the dimensions himself in a CAD
17:37.26 ValarQ would be nice to have dimensions stored under the view and having rtedge ploting them
17:37.40 ``Erik wow, that is one horrible interface o.O :D
17:37.41 archivist clock_ not poductive that way
17:37.43 brlcad clock_: yes, it seems to be the requested feature of this year
17:37.54 archivist productive
17:38.50 brlcad it wouldn't be hard (read more than a couple months effort) at all to add a 2D overlay primitive similar to the sketch object for representing annotations, dimensions, and lines, etc
17:39.22 brlcad the problem is more a gui then for creating/manipulating those features, and if they're dimensions -- a means to compute them and keep them up to date preferably
17:40.16 ValarQ brlcad: shouldn't they also be dependent on a view to be placed or plotted?
17:40.45 brlcad there are uses for both dependant and independant
17:40.56 ValarQ brlcad: otherwise it could be tricky to know where the dimension really are
17:41.06 brlcad though independant is actually quite harder (staying fixed to the projection they're being looked at from)
17:42.06 brlcad ValarQ: as long as perspective mode is turned off, it's fairly easy to compute -- you can take a view-aligned bounding box's width for example
17:42.47 ValarQ brlcad: isn't that the wrong way to measure?
17:42.50 archivist hmm dimensions should not be affected by view
17:43.16 brlcad the difficulty in general of commputing *any* of the dimensions, though is that it requires evaluation of the implicit form (expensive) or seamless transition to an explicit form (e.g. brep nurbs)
17:43.28 ValarQ well, in my head they should be affected by a view, but only one view, one that doesn't change
17:43.38 brlcad ValarQ: not if it's a tight-fit and you're dimensioning orthogonal
17:44.01 brlcad it really depends what it is that you are trying to dimension
17:44.35 brlcad for some random subpiece of a subassembly, no that wouldn't work so well if you couldn't specify the whole subassembly/combination
17:44.36 ValarQ how should you store the dimension?
17:45.25 brlcad as a dimension object type in the database (the 2D overlay primitive I referred to)
17:45.55 brlcad can have attributes tying it to the original, constraints attributes for optionally keeping it up to date, etc
17:46.03 archivist should they be atached to the skect primatives
17:46.12 archivist sketch
17:46.12 ValarQ yeah
17:46.27 ValarQ have you used the sketch function in pro/engineer?
17:46.47 archivist Im a solidworks person
17:46.55 brlcad sketch primitive would not be my first choice, simply because they require shape closure, have a defined 2D inside and outside
17:47.11 brlcad i have used sketch in pro/e, though it was a couple years back now
17:47.47 brlcad it could certainly be an attribute of a sketch, though, or reference a sketch if it were an object itself
17:48.06 brlcad mind you i'm talking about the implementation, not whatever the user interface chose to present it as
17:48.35 ValarQ brlcad: me too
17:48.37 brlcad the user interface could very well "show" a dimension tied to a sketch object.. that's regardless
17:49.46 archivist tied to or driving
18:05.57 ``Erik oh, neat, mged -c is 'more awesomer'
18:08.55 clock_ is there man mged?
18:12.14 ``Erik clock_: yes, add /usr/brlcad/man to your MANPATH
18:16.00 clock_ ``Erik: I think the brlcad didn't say that at the end.
18:26.31 ``Erik pipe_in... eck
19:05.04 ``Erik I must be hungry, I'm gettin' dizzy :/
19:19.10 ``Erik sean, why does pipeseg have a magic value defined and no field for magic?
19:19.21 ``Erik wdb.h:120
19:21.11 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/include/ (rtgeom.h wdb.h): store metaball control points in a bu_list of structs instead of an array of homogenous vectors
19:32.34 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/src/mged/typein.c: Initial metaball parser (heavily based on pipes) and minor cleanup.
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20:54.53 AbsTradELic hi
20:55.43 ValarQ hiya
21:06.38 AbsTradELic I'll come back
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21:18.31 AbsTradELic ok
21:22.05 AbsTradELic hi all !
21:23.29 AbsTradELic to have a compreensive view of project, I need something informations

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