IRC log for #brlcad on 20070701

00:13.15 IriX64 Opera, go figure :)
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01:03.42 IriX64 who wrote autogen.sh?
01:04.47 IriX64 the header is there but no authors name or am i just missing it?
01:08.14 IriX64 just wondering, because i'm having a problem upgrading to automake-1.10, it parsed it as 1.1.0 so i dropped back to 1.9.6
01:16.28 IriX64 libtool i'm running is 1.5.22 it parses fine
01:22.20 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2 :) a little playing around
01:23.38 IriX64 should see what rev irssi is at i guess that ones old
01:26.22 IriX64 hah .8.11
01:34.09 IriX64 sigh no perl again, one day i'm gonna have to tackle that
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01:41.20 IriX64_ works, might as well put it on the server :)
01:47.34 IriX64 there you go (as if anybody wants it though they all use Mirc :P)
02:04.13 IriX64 http://www.pastebin.ca/598132 <---- man i thought you fixed it (cvs update not 3 hrs ago)
02:05.36 IriX64 mistake me for a serious man will you :P
02:06.40 IriX64 the benign ones i won't report :)
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02:24.03 IriX64 http://www.pastebin.ca/598148 <---- could use some help here.
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02:28.56 IriX64 tried with system tk lib too, problem is it comes from the same people :)
02:29.42 IriX64 8.5a5 8.5a6 happens with both
02:38.33 IriX64 gotta go guys, l8r
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04:30.35 IriX64 tried a make distclean, tcl has no rule to do a distclean :(
04:42.09 IriX64 the old build works with Xwin32 too, hoping the same for 7.10 :)
04:45.01 IriX64 www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/mapped.png have a look
04:46.51 IriX64 err http:www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2 mapped.png sorry :)
04:55.55 brlcad stop it
05:00.36 IriX64 ok
05:11.27 IriX64 permantly? If I get something worth sharing, is it allowed?
05:12.17 brlcad you've been going pretty much non-stop for over 4 hours
05:12.35 brlcad with complete disregard to anyone talking back and stopping after 5
05:12.50 IriX64 apologies
05:33.38 IriX64 goodnight
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08:24.37 MinuteElectron brlcad: busy?
08:25.10 MinuteElectron configure: creating ./config.status
08:25.12 MinuteElectron .infig.status: error: cannot find input file:
08:27.46 brlcad sounds like you're still missing things, sounds like autogen.sh did not complete successfully/correctly but I'd need more info to know for sure
08:28.05 brlcad run ./autogen.sh --verbose and make sure it completes correctly
08:29.28 MinuteElectron ok
08:31.04 MinuteElectron brlcad: winsock.h error http://paste2.org/p/4194
08:51.43 MinuteElectron brlcad: What would be the signs of a problem
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14:14.17 n9986 Hi all
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14:21.01 AchiestDragon well at least he did not ask a question and leave before anyone got arround to answer it like normal :)
14:28.10 poolio hehe, mornin
14:28.22 AchiestDragon hi
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16:42.55 brlcad MinuteElectron: ping
16:43.24 brlcad AchiestDragon: :) true
16:43.42 brlcad so, how does this look: http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/newtitle.png
16:55.38 MinuteElectron brlcad: back
16:57.36 MinuteElectron brlcad: wow! looking good
16:58.45 brlcad it should collapse down to about 1024 wide minimum with the right css
16:59.08 elite01 fine
16:59.17 MinuteElectron it is 1200x600
16:59.48 brlcad right, at 1200 now in that clip, but it should compress further
16:59.55 MinuteElectron ok
17:00.13 MinuteElectron you have two images?
17:01.20 brlcad the right side should be able to move in/out almost all the way over -- where the search and menu come together probably
17:01.26 brlcad two images?
17:01.34 MinuteElectron ok, I get it
17:02.32 brlcad there are probably 4 or 5 css-layers in there to make it work
17:03.39 brlcad the logo text, the left background, the right background, the left search, and the right menu
17:04.19 MinuteElectron the logo text is going to be seperate?
17:04.26 MinuteElectron it would be easier to make it par tof hte image
17:05.12 brlcad then it won't compress much more than 1200
17:05.29 brlcad to get the right side to slide under the left without seeing a hard line
17:05.53 MinuteElectron hmm, ok
17:06.00 brlcad i mean unless you can sort it out, good luck with that :)
17:06.10 MinuteElectron :D
17:06.11 brlcad the css is the hard part ;)
17:06.22 brlcad there's lots of little detail in ther
17:06.25 MinuteElectron do you have the original photoshop files so i can get the layers out of it?
17:06.30 brlcad the menu in particular
17:06.36 brlcad yeah, sure
17:06.39 brlcad hold on a sec
17:08.31 brlcad uploaded, same dir titlebar.psd
17:09.00 MinuteElectron thanks
17:12.33 MinuteElectron brlcad: ha, I see the Haiku layer at the bottom :P
17:15.04 brlcad yup
17:15.06 brlcad comparison
17:15.31 brlcad and inspiration
17:31.20 MinuteElectron brlcad: There is a problem with the truck.
17:32.13 brlcad what's that?
17:32.24 MinuteElectron 82.7.33.28/drupal-5.1/
17:32.27 MinuteElectron http://82.7.33.28/drupal-5.1/
17:32.38 MinuteElectron On resolutions 1024x768 it looks good
17:32.50 MinuteElectron but anything lower then the truck gets cut.
17:34.09 brlcad that's what I was referring to about making the title text a separate layer
17:34.30 MinuteElectron oh I see,
17:34.35 brlcad makes that line go away
17:34.36 MinuteElectron working on it
17:35.01 brlcad three layers, so the right side is above the left's background but under the left's text
17:35.56 brlcad did gimp strip out the text layer effects or'd you do that?
17:36.17 MinuteElectron it was gimp
17:36.26 MinuteElectron coudl you send me the text in a png
17:36.29 brlcad sure
17:38.05 brlcad want them as one or two?
17:38.11 MinuteElectron one please
17:41.29 brlcad http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/titletext.png
17:41.46 MinuteElectron thanks
17:44.46 brlcad sure, let me know if you need any others
17:45.02 brlcad that should be the only blend going on if i'm not mistaken
17:48.46 brlcad ah, xyz needs it's own layer too to work right
17:49.33 MinuteElectron xyz?
17:49.40 MinuteElectron oh
17:49.43 MinuteElectron the graph
17:50.03 brlcad the axes
17:50.08 MinuteElectron brlcad: Can you take a look at the thing?
17:50.19 MinuteElectron It is not improved.
17:50.47 brlcad http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/xyz.png
17:51.54 brlcad looks like it's getting better
17:52.01 MinuteElectron not at 800x600
17:54.22 MinuteElectron xyz added
17:54.34 MinuteElectron brlcad: Opinon?
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18:03.41 brlcad http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/titleleft.png
18:04.26 brlcad with that, you should be able to let the right side be all the way back
18:04.32 brlcad so it just slides under
18:04.44 poolio howdy brlcad
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18:05.03 brlcad howdy poolio
18:07.01 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2 m35.jpg (it did it :))
18:07.02 poolio gorgeous day, what are we all doing on our computers? :p
18:07.23 IriX64 poolio and why is our wallpaper a shot of a sunset :)
18:07.55 MinuteElectron brlcad: Any chance you could remove the border on the top and left, I cannot without b0rking the transparency.
18:08.07 MinuteElectron IriX64: cool, ure server fixed
18:08.31 brlcad IriX64: interesting, photon mapping I presume
18:08.39 IriX64 minuteelectron yeah was trying something, doesn't work that way :)
18:08.41 brlcad MinuteElectron: sure
18:08.44 IriX64 brlcad yes
18:08.47 brlcad you mean the black stripe
18:09.15 MinuteElectron yeah
18:09.19 brlcad would like to retain the hairline, though it certainly doesn't have to be in the iamge
18:09.26 MinuteElectron dw
18:09.30 MinuteElectron I will change the other images
18:09.50 poolio MinuteElectron: Is there a recent version of the site up somewhere?
18:10.08 MinuteElectron http://82.7.33.28/drupal-1.5
18:10.33 IriX64 doesn't resolve minuteelectron
18:10.39 brlcad want me to fill it in transparent or clip the image one pixel smaller?
18:10.51 MinuteElectron brlcad: neither, I will do it.
18:10.58 poolio it's drupal-5.1 not 1.5
18:11.03 MinuteElectron yeah
18:11.05 MinuteElectron bah
18:11.14 brlcad so, what do you want me to do with it? :)
18:11.15 IriX64 heh
18:11.20 MinuteElectron brlcad: nothing
18:11.29 brlcad heh, okay
18:11.52 poolio nifty header.
18:12.02 MinuteElectron look now everyone
18:12.21 MinuteElectron just not in IE.
18:12.34 brlcad awesome
18:12.47 IriX64 i'm looking in ie seems right
18:12.49 poolio WOAH! Hooray transparency!
18:12.50 MinuteElectron Resizes successfully down to 800x600
18:12.59 MinuteElectron IriX64: Yes, grey blobs FTW.
18:13.16 MinuteElectron IriX64: You running 7?
18:13.31 IriX64 6 let me try fiefox minutelectron
18:13.35 MinuteElectron ok
18:13.37 IriX64 err firefox
18:14.34 brlcad woot, that actually lets it work all the way down to 655 :-)
18:14.44 MinuteElectron :D
18:14.53 IriX64 minuteelectron looks same
18:15.02 MinuteElectron same?
18:15.06 IriX64 yes
18:15.18 MinuteElectron do a screenshot just to test please :)
18:15.37 poolio brlcad: I'd say 651, but ok :)
18:15.39 brlcad poolio: here's the end effect we're currently going for: http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/newtitle.png
18:15.45 IriX64 just a sec firefox first then ie ok?
18:15.48 brlcad poolio: heh, fair nuf :)
18:15.59 MinuteElectron ok
18:16.08 poolio brlcad: cool, I'm not sure I'm a fan of the tan navigation though
18:16.30 poolio and I'd float the search box into the header instead of having it stick down
18:16.54 brlcad the color was pulled from the eagle logo frame
18:17.05 poolio Yeah, I still think it's ugly though :)
18:17.22 poolio and if you aren't using the eagle logo in the header it doesnt really matter
18:17.27 AchiestDragon hmm
18:17.46 poolio i think a more purple-blue-grey theme would be better
18:17.49 brlcad yeah, more just a nod to it than a reason
18:17.53 poolio yeah
18:18.07 brlcad which matched up nicely color-wise with the truck and the green
18:18.12 IriX64 minuteelectron, my server same.jpg both in one
18:18.27 AchiestDragon not so shure , the old logo looks a bit too military based , the new one looks like well home made
18:18.52 MinuteElectron IriX64: Yeah, that is how it is meant to look.
18:19.19 brlcad i'm not entirely happy with the menu itself yet, but it's something
18:19.38 poolio brlcad: mhmm. I'm really picky when it comes to web design :)
18:20.10 AchiestDragon the truck needs to have perspective turned on
18:21.13 brlcad AchiestDragon: yeah, I'm actually trying to get away from the whole military feel just a little. not loosing the logo, but pushing it out of the spotlight a little
18:21.53 brlcad poolio: you're more than welcome to tweak it or come up with another menu :)
18:22.00 AchiestDragon ues the old logo as a door image on the side of the truck
18:22.52 IriX64 brlcad: perhaps a photon map shot of havoc somewhere just to show the power inherent
18:23.13 poolio brlcad: hehe. can I do it on the clock?
18:23.50 brlcad poolio: after this summer, sure :)
18:24.15 AchiestDragon yes , that i think is the problem with the new logo the effect is shows is not rendered it gives the impression that the output of brlcad will look like that
18:24.26 poolio brlcad: hehe, should I keep beset as my first priority then?
18:24.41 poolio brlcad: also, is your my.brlcad.org/tmp directory supposed to be world readable?
18:25.07 brlcad AchiestDragon: by logo do you mean the title text?
18:25.18 AchiestDragon no the graphics with it
18:25.34 brlcad not sure what you mean then
18:25.44 brlcad I generated all the graphics from within brl-cad
18:26.18 poolio brlcad: AHAHHA. http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/endofworld.swf
18:26.37 brlcad only thing I didn't is the menu and the BRL-CAD title text .. and I could have done the title text too, but that would have been a bear to set up the same lighting hilights
18:26.53 brlcad poolio: yeah, that's great
18:26.53 AchiestDragon i mean the graphis you used show the wire frame , and half transparancy , rather than a solid rnedered photon view in perspective
18:27.43 brlcad it's a blend of a wireframe, an hidden line render, and a regular raytrace
18:29.13 brlcad there's actually a point for that too -- the progression of primitives on the left to more complex read geometry on the right
18:29.14 poolio brlcad: i think I might get some work done, try to figure out how to deal with all the different shapes and trees and what not
18:29.36 poolio brlcad: what shapes do you think should be implemented for starters? spheres/ellipsoids, rpp, and anything else?
18:31.57 brlcad conics (tgc family), ellipsoids (ell family), planar polyhedra (arb8 family), and the torus
18:32.13 brlcad that will give most shapes
18:32.18 poolio alright cool. is rpp part of the arb8 family?
18:32.22 brlcad yeah
18:32.41 poolio alright, and are there sub shapes for arb8 or is rpp just an alias for a specialized arb8?
18:33.05 brlcad sort of an alias
18:33.29 brlcad they are stored as arb8's but are evaluated as rpps (as you can do the ray-tracing faster that way)
18:34.28 MinuteElectron That end of the world video is hilarious.
18:34.34 poolio ah Ok. Also I might end up working with the tcl strings for the shapes, seems like that means a lot less work for me
18:35.03 brlcad just like how the equation of an rcc (cylindrical tube) is very simple so that is used for evaluation, whereas the general equation of that shape is a truncated general cone (that is slightly more complex to evaluate)
18:37.51 MinuteElectron brlcad: I have a problem.
18:38.04 MinuteElectron I am about to start doing the CSS for the navigation bar,
18:38.36 MinuteElectron however the class identifiers could change when druapl is installed for real
18:39.16 MinuteElectron and if it did the entire navigation would be ruined
18:39.27 brlcad so lets do it for real then ;)
18:39.37 poolio MinuteElectron: That's why God invited regex.
18:39.40 brlcad s/lets // ;)
18:39.44 poolio brlcad: ahahhaa :D
18:40.08 MinuteElectron poolio: ok...
18:40.17 brlcad i'll just need a few bits of info from you
18:40.24 MinuteElectron ok...
18:41.36 AchiestDragon brlcad: like http://www.achiestdragon.org/index.php?title=Image:Brlcad.jpg&oldid=607
18:42.25 IriX64 AchiestDragon, nice, my current wallpaper :)
18:43.00 IriX64 AchiestDragon I think I like yours better
18:43.20 AchiestDragon it shows of what can be done better than showing of the low qualaty working view
18:45.17 IriX64 AchiestDragon, it's too small for wallpaper, stretches out of proportion
18:46.07 AchiestDragon the width of the image is limited as it is only a section of the image on your site so not hi res ,,
18:46.23 AchiestDragon the brlcad site that is
18:50.33 IriX64 AchiestDragon, my server.... Havoc.jpg
18:51.36 brlcad AchiestDragon: hehe, though if you knew the setup required for that image... it's a bit more misleading than blended renderings effort-wise :)
18:52.21 AchiestDragon yes
18:52.37 brlcad personally, i'm a bit tired of that image too :)
18:52.56 brlcad though I certainly see and show it a bit more than you probably :)
18:53.31 AchiestDragon but the renderings used dont show of the realistic effect that brlcad can produce , although i tend to aggree that that himage has been arround for some time
18:54.05 AchiestDragon any user submitted image that comes close to the "realistic effect" with good detail that could be used
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18:54.44 IriX64 AchiestDragon, if you like mine use it everything on that site is available
18:55.06 poolio oops.
18:55.27 AchiestDragon the helecopter is good but its yet another mil type image
18:55.57 IriX64 AchiestDragon, choose something in the example geometry or give me one :)
18:56.50 IriX64 AchiestDragon, the shuttle or nozzle would be great but i can't find them and am not about to purchase that program :)
18:57.24 AchiestDragon had one better , give me a few mins see if i can find the archive
18:57.31 IriX64 sure
19:07.26 AchiestDragon http://www.achiestdragon.org/index.php?title=Image:Alien.png&oldid=608
19:08.10 AchiestDragon it was a blender file that i exported then imported into brlcad some time ago
19:10.58 AchiestDragon i dont have the name of the original author of that but its gpl and if it was to be used it would need his name for the credits
19:15.18 brlcad heh, neat picture
19:16.22 IriX64 AchiestDragon, thought you were going to give me geometry :)
19:16.34 AchiestDragon alot of the meshes turned into arrays of triangles so it lost the curves on the surfaces in the export
19:26.26 AchiestDragon i did this in solidworks but converted it to brlcad ...
19:26.40 AchiestDragon http://www.achiestdragon.org/index.php?title=Image:Rendered.png&oldid=609
19:28.35 AchiestDragon before making this , http://www.whipy.demon.co.uk/robot4.jpg
19:30.04 IriX64 AchiestDragon, I presume the materials are germanium and silicon :)
19:32.25 IriX64 artist too
19:33.22 IriX64 mmmm 7.6.1 my first experience was with 7.6.0
19:36.22 IriX64 TankCar.jpg
19:49.26 brlcad AchiestDragon: hah, that's awesome
19:49.35 brlcad dues it actually drive?
19:51.00 AchiestDragon it needed another ideler wheel at each side to stop it sheading the tracks when turning
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20:05.51 IriX64 AchiestDragon, they built that from brl-cad specs?
20:06.24 IriX64 heh roborooter comes to mind (duck)
20:47.32 IriX64 AchiestDragon, maybe you can use this, it came out black though, have to play with the illumination
20:47.37 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/Geometric_Solutions_Tank_Car2.jpg
21:05.26 AchiestDragon maybe ,, do you have a raytraced output with good lighting of it
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21:16.35 IriX64 AchiestDragon, how bout a regular raytrace not photonmapped will that do, I can have one quickly?
21:18.48 AchiestDragon the havoc pic is good because it looks realistic , i gues theres little chance of finding something rendered to that qualaty
21:19.11 brlcad seeing havoc rendered with rise would be interesting
21:19.13 AchiestDragon and ok so it took how many days to render
21:19.43 poolio alright guys, i'm gonna go play some ultimate, be back later :)
21:20.33 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/GeoMetricSolutionsTankCar.png
21:20.38 IriX64 days?
21:21.10 IriX64 adrt doesn't compile here (yet:))
21:27.23 AchiestDragon imeant the stryker icv 5 days on 48 X 2.4Ghz xeon's
21:28.40 IriX64 AchiestDragon, I saw that 8trillion rays
21:29.04 brlcad those numbers were later cut in half, fwiw
21:29.29 IriX64 AchiestDragon, lets do a bench, get brlcad to send me the .g file :)
21:29.46 IriX64 brlcad I can't imagine that
21:30.07 AchiestDragon well bot hmged and archer dont work on this pc :( so canot try atm
21:30.46 IriX64 I haven't played with archer yet
21:31.12 AchiestDragon was hoping archer would of been running in linux by now
21:31.24 IriX64 superior to mged?
21:32.07 brlcad in some ways, not in others
21:32.23 IriX64 noted will explore later
21:32.27 AchiestDragon it looked an easyer interface to use when i saw it last , ok so got to be about 2 years back
21:32.29 brlcad AchiestDragon: patches welcome ;)
21:32.42 brlcad I'd give just about anyone commit access if they wanted to work on it ;)
21:33.02 brlcad is mostly build integration issues, not even archer issues for the most part
21:33.26 brlcad it's just been low on the totem pole
21:34.02 AchiestDragon i may have a go , but need to sort out my graphic card config first ,, got to remove one of the cards and get the system to boot without resorting to some od config each time
21:35.41 AchiestDragon theres a matrox g200 quad head and a g550 dual head card in here , the quad card is driving 2 lcd's and the dual just the one , but it forgets the xconfig after power on
21:36.23 AchiestDragon i have to manualy edit it and restart x after each power on
21:37.29 AchiestDragon almost at the stage of doing a compleate reinstall , but sort of keep posponing it as it works fine after
21:40.32 AchiestDragon although going to load brlcad on the windows box when i get time
21:41.26 AchiestDragon maybe later tonight
21:41.29 brlcad :)
21:58.18 IriX64 AciestDragon, the windows archer i've experimented with
21:58.28 IriX64 err AchiestDragon too
22:03.21 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/Archer.png <--- just messing around
22:05.18 IriX64 brlcad: does -ffast-math really make a difference, i've never experimented with speed enhancers
22:07.51 brlcad experiment
22:19.25 AchiestDragon well installed in windows
22:20.08 AchiestDragon now i remeber how bad the mged command set is to remeber
22:21.36 brlcad yeah, it can be a bear if you don't use it repeatedly
22:21.50 brlcad which wouldn't be so bad, but the help facilities are teh suck too sometimes
22:22.43 AchiestDragon well at least i have a working verision installed on one macine anyway
22:23.45 AchiestDragon although not in mood to trol though doc's tonight
22:24.35 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/mged.png <--- this command set ;)
22:27.10 poolio evenin
22:27.24 SuperTaz irix
22:27.36 SuperTaz what modeller is in the chackground of the archer image?
22:27.42 SuperTaz background, even
22:28.09 IriX64 modeller?
22:28.25 SuperTaz with the wireframe in it?
22:28.44 IriX64 havoc and i rt'ed it
22:28.51 SuperTaz rt?
22:28.56 IriX64 raytrace
22:28.59 SuperTaz ahhh
22:29.08 SuperTaz havoc is the modeller?
22:29.14 SuperTaz works with brl-cad?
22:29.26 IriX64 I don't know your terms explain modeller to me
22:29.46 SuperTaz that which you created the model in
22:29.59 SuperTaz the tool behind the rendering
22:30.02 IriX64 the geometry window
22:30.06 SuperTaz yes
22:30.08 SuperTaz what is that?
22:30.15 IriX64 part of archer
22:30.16 brlcad that is archer
22:30.19 SuperTaz ahhh
22:30.20 IriX64 yes
22:30.32 IriX64 sorry for the confusion :)
22:30.34 SuperTaz where'd you get archer?
22:30.54 IriX64 windows binaries distribution;)
22:31.01 IriX64 off sourceforge
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22:31.10 SuperTaz oh...it's windows only?
22:31.13 brlcad archer is a refactoring of mged written predominantly by mged's primary author
22:31.15 IriX64 yes sorry
22:31.24 poolio brlcad: who was mged's primary author?
22:31.40 brlcad he started cleaning stuff up (starting several years ago) and after a while, he had the foundations for a new editor
22:31.47 brlcad poolio: Bob
22:31.53 brlcad Parker
22:32.05 SuperTaz ahhhh
22:32.05 SuperTaz it's nice
22:32.05 SuperTaz shame it's windows only
22:32.10 brlcad it's not really windows-only
22:32.15 SuperTaz oh?
22:32.18 brlcad it's just only been released in binary form on windows
22:32.24 brlcad and presently doesn't run out of CVS ;)
22:32.38 brlcad but code-wise, it'll run on windows, linux, mac, bsd, at least
22:32.51 SuperTaz oh
22:33.03 SuperTaz so, in other words...I can't run it on my mac
22:33.04 brlcad just needs some build infrastructure clean-up
22:33.06 SuperTaz because it won't build
22:33.10 brlcad right
22:33.16 brlcad actually, it builds
22:33.17 SuperTaz well poop
22:33.27 SuperTaz it just won't run?
22:33.28 brlcad but it will complain at run-time about not finding some resource library it needs
22:33.31 brlcad path problem
22:33.34 SuperTaz ahhh
22:33.39 brlcad looking in the wrong place
22:33.53 SuperTaz is it fixable?
22:34.31 brlcad infinitely
22:34.47 SuperTaz I'm just asking because I would like something a little smoother than vanilla mged
22:35.10 SuperTaz can't find archer on sourceforge
22:35.26 brlcad it's still not meant to be a full-blown mged replacement, missing lots of commands you'd eventually want
22:35.51 SuperTaz yeah, but it looks pretty decent for rapid prototyping
22:36.04 brlcad bob gets to play with it mostly in his spare time, mostly good as a viewer at this point
22:36.06 SuperTaz looks nice and user-friendly
22:36.10 IriX64 unix archer is part of cvs
22:36.10 SuperTaz oh
22:36.13 SuperTaz bah
22:36.13 brlcad it's a lot more friendly
22:36.29 brlcad it can do editing, but I"m just saying that it's far from "done"
22:36.32 SuperTaz I just need something friendly to design geometry in
22:36.42 SuperTaz mged is not friendly, thus far
22:36.49 SuperTaz of course, I'm a n00b to mged
22:36.53 IriX64 how so?
22:36.55 brlcad far from replacing even a 10% of what mged does feature-wise
22:37.17 brlcad though what it does, it generally does better
22:37.22 poolio SuperTaz: mged isn't that hard to learn. Take some time and read through the tutorials online
22:37.27 brlcad really just needs some loving care and attention
22:37.34 SuperTaz I have the tutorials
22:37.46 SuperTaz I just have to have the time to go through them
22:38.01 IriX64 SuperTaz you can create many of the standard primitives from the gui
22:38.03 brlcad therein being the crux of the problem ;)
22:38.07 SuperTaz and it'd be nice to have a nicer interface
22:38.21 SuperTaz I'd take an Alias 6 interface
22:38.27 brlcad there are other efforts also under way for a better interface
22:38.31 SuperTaz or an explore interface
22:38.39 brlcad for which archer is in the right direction, but not on the same path
22:38.47 SuperTaz *nod*
22:39.07 SuperTaz even the original softimage interface would be fine
22:40.07 SuperTaz though I wasn't a huge fan of it...I preferred alias and explore...they used very little real estate for buttons and menus, but made it all available via context menu (explore) or via a single mode/button set (alias)
22:40.09 brlcad it's a shame that mged's interface is so difficult (and ugly), because feature-wise, it does it a major disservice -- there are lots of things you can do in brl-cad that really are better than just about every other package
22:40.26 SuperTaz *nod*
22:40.33 SuperTaz I like its maturity
22:40.41 SuperTaz but the interface is poo
22:40.44 brlcad :)
22:40.47 SuperTaz I've used a bunch of modellers
22:40.52 SuperTaz some nearly as mature
22:41.02 SuperTaz and they all have better interfaces
22:41.51 brlcad they all have had entirely different development lifelines and budgets too ;)
22:42.10 SuperTaz of course :)
22:42.12 brlcad it wasn't really until brl-cad became open source that the interface became that much of an issue
22:42.13 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/Test.png <---- this took seconds
22:42.27 SuperTaz but the military and then a commercial organization developed brl-cad
22:42.47 brlcad commercial org?
22:43.08 WindowsDragon well here goes nothing , brb on other machine soon holefully
22:43.13 SuperTaz you'd think they'd have made an interface that was at least semi-user friendly
22:43.20 brlcad it's never been unilaterally developed by a commercial org -- closest would have been GSI in the 90's but even their work was a partnership
22:43.25 SuperTaz brl: didn't it it go private?
22:43.30 brlcad nope
22:43.37 SuperTaz oh...I thought GSI owned it for that period
22:43.46 SuperTaz under contract to the gov't
22:43.54 SuperTaz didn't realize it was a partnership
22:44.11 SuperTaz cause I thought they made it commercially available in that period?
22:44.13 brlcad no no, it's always remained under active development since it started
22:44.27 brlcad you might be thinking of SURVICE Engineering
22:44.46 brlcad as they provide commercial _support_ and have done so for many years
22:44.54 brlcad you could buy a copy or brl-cad, and it'd come from them
22:45.05 brlcad but it was the same version that we were making
22:45.10 SuperTaz anyway, in 20+ years of development, you'd think it would have gotten an intuitive view menu, a sensible default view (X Y Z perspective)
22:45.15 SuperTaz and a couple of other things
22:45.22 brlcad they just built the binaries and put them on a disc for you
22:45.27 SuperTaz ahhh
22:45.36 SuperTaz I thought they also did some active development, too
22:45.37 brlcad along with nice printed manuals and guaranteed support staff for answering your questiongs
22:46.07 brlcad they do some development, still do even, but they participate just like anyone else in the open source arena now
22:46.25 SuperTaz *nod*
22:46.30 SuperTaz well, that's good, at least
22:46.42 brlcad survice basically paid bob to work on archer for a couple years non-stop
22:46.43 SuperTaz anyway, I'm sure it's possible to get it to look better
22:46.49 brlcad that's why it got as far as it did
22:46.49 SuperTaz ahhh...nice
22:47.01 brlcad then they needed him on some other things
22:47.09 IriX64 SuperTaz, do you want me to upload these binaries since you can't find them?
22:47.26 SuperTaz irix: won't help me any...this is a mac :)
22:47.27 brlcad SuperTaz: he meant for Mac, so probably not :)
22:47.33 IriX64 ahh
22:47.45 IriX64 :)
22:48.29 brlcad SuperTaz: you would think that a better interface would have cropped up, but the domain and demands of what everyone needs *right now* always overrule
22:48.33 SuperTaz can't remember the shell command to start x on a mac
22:48.47 SuperTaz brlcad: yeah, often the reality
22:49.13 brlcad that is, the folks that pay for new development don't care if it's pretty or even if it's easy to use, so long as it can get the job done (which mged does splendidly most of the time)
22:49.16 SuperTaz brlcad: sadly, it's been proven that a good interface makes for much more time
22:49.20 brlcad open -a X11
22:49.24 SuperTaz *nod*
22:49.42 SuperTaz ahhh
22:49.46 SuperTaz thanks
22:49.49 brlcad SuperTaz: oh, I know .. but saying it's proven doesn't pay for the new interface ;)
22:50.03 SuperTaz I think I was thinking of a different command, but that works ;)
22:50.19 brlcad no matter how many times you say it, how many graphs and time studies you do -- they need/want other features and time is limited
22:50.25 brlcad so it's up to the open source community really
22:50.44 brlcad where the economics go out the window mostly :)
22:51.01 SuperTaz and then they'll rebundle it and make a killing ;)
22:52.18 brlcad nah, at worst, they'd be like the gforgegroup is to gforge or like redhat is to the linux kernel -- a distributor for something that you can get for free, available for folks that want to pay for guaranteed support
22:52.41 SuperTaz is brl-cad gpl?
22:52.44 SuperTaz thought it was bsd?
22:52.47 brlcad lgpl and bsd
22:52.54 SuperTaz *nod*
22:53.02 brlcad most of the code is lgpl
22:53.05 SuperTaz so they can sell it for as much as they'd like :)
22:53.26 SuperTaz and add their own customizations around it :)
22:53.27 brlcad build infrastructure, docs, data resources, and some other portions like the benchmark suite are bsd
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22:54.01 brlcad that they could and so could you
22:54.36 brlcad they wouldn't do anything in bad faith, though, they're a pretty good group
22:55.19 brlcad and they'd sure as heck not want to risk any bad relationship with the gov't, they know who their daddy is
22:55.26 SuperTaz okay...slowly fighting my way into the gui
22:55.45 SuperTaz *nod*
22:55.58 SuperTaz and yes, I know I could take it and spruce up the gui and sell it
22:56.21 SuperTaz if I did that, though, a) I'd need some customers and b) I'd still contribute back ;)
22:56.57 IriX64 SuperTaz, I just plat want my code, maybe you can make a killing with it :)
22:57.02 brlcad you'd be obligated for most of the code, only your enhancements that weren't integrated would be yours to share or not
22:57.02 IriX64 play not plat
22:57.54 SuperTaz brlcad: yeah
22:58.01 SuperTaz brlcad: not that I'm about to do so :)
22:58.45 SuperTaz brlcad: but you can always do things like build a plugin harness that's lgpl, and then create plugins that are closed source or restricted distribution, etc.
22:59.30 SuperTaz i.e. make the plugins GPL and distribute a commercial version of them as well (optimized and/or otherwise fortified)
22:59.55 SuperTaz and then you just disallow commercial distribution of the plugins
23:00.02 SuperTaz there are other licenses, too...
23:00.05 SuperTaz *shrug*
23:00.29 brlcad yeah, just not likely worth the effort and bad publicity if they didn't get a nod that it was okay beforehand
23:00.30 SuperTaz the MySQL and Postgres model works pretty well...it allows them to pay developers AND leverage the community
23:01.38 brlcad "pretty well" minus a little political backlash to the purists
23:01.44 poolio muahaha. beset shall be closed source ;)
23:01.51 SuperTaz so?
23:01.59 SuperTaz the purists are great in theory
23:02.18 brlcad more the poison aspects
23:02.20 SuperTaz but you just see what happens if no one is paying for any software
23:02.42 SuperTaz I love open source
23:02.47 SuperTaz don't get me wrong
23:02.58 SuperTaz I've contributed to several projects :)
23:03.22 SuperTaz but...commercial interests drive a LOT of open source innovation
23:03.51 brlcad it does, though commercial only tends to do so when it serves their financial goals in politically tactful ways
23:04.14 SuperTaz sure
23:04.40 SuperTaz but meeting customer demands (the users) is what makes sense for them financially (usually)
23:04.52 brlcad still mostly moot for brl-cad -- the CAD industry is *already* a massive multi-billion dollar industry that takes utterly *massive* development capital just to get a basic functioning toolset
23:05.44 SuperTaz yes, but brl-cad would probably have some decent market share if it had a more intuitive interface :)
23:06.07 brlcad we're the farthest out there by a really long ways, with a funding source, and we're still way behind in many aspects -- entire massive domains we don't cater to (ECAD, MCAD, CADD, ..) well and features that one would expect outright of commercial (a reasonable gui)
23:06.15 SuperTaz (sorry if I'm slow here...rebuilding my keyboard while we speak)
23:06.29 brlcad yep, mged's interface is by far the biggest detriment to our progress at this point
23:06.53 SuperTaz yes...it's be quite commercially viable with a solid interface
23:07.00 SuperTaz it's, even :)
23:07.17 brlcad that's why I'm looking to spark more development interest by getting talented students involved in making a new interfaces, new tools
23:07.28 SuperTaz yeah, that'd be good
23:07.32 brlcad open source community will follow once the gui is in place, just not readily beforehand
23:07.35 SuperTaz are you in academia?
23:07.58 SuperTaz yes...that's the thing...the open source community cares about gui for these things :)
23:08.17 brlcad we have long ties to several big groups in academia, particularly computer graphics
23:08.54 SuperTaz that's good
23:09.06 AchiestDragon ok now back to only one graphics card in this machine , still got big bug with mged , is this documented with a workarround or do i need to file a bug report
23:09.17 SuperTaz I could maybe get the depaul crowd interested...I'd have to figure out who to talk to, though
23:09.46 brlcad UNC chapel hill, Hopkins, UUtah, Texas A&M, UDel, .. a lot of BRL-CAD's early design and development days were in tight collaboration with active research (and even today, there is some still going on)
23:09.53 SuperTaz they're awfully microsoft oriented overall, but they have an okay HCI program, and this'd be up their alley
23:09.54 AchiestDragon on a multihad display the frame buffer only works with the windows on one monitor
23:10.52 poolio brlcad: anything from CMU?
23:10.53 brlcad i would have *loved* to have known about BRL-CAD when I was taking computer graphics and other computer science courses in college
23:11.02 SuperTaz okay... no delete key now, either :P
23:11.14 SuperTaz I'd really better be careful what I type ;)
23:12.21 brlcad poolio: yes actually
23:12.44 SuperTaz I think that the problem here is less that the keyboard is dirty and more that kensington just didn't design it all that well
23:12.48 brlcad iirc, he was a summer hire who later became a core developer for many years
23:13.02 poolio brlcad: ah sweet
23:13.22 SuperTaz hrmm...at least I have an enter key again ;)
23:14.03 brlcad poolio: in that case, though, it was with the student, not with CMU faculty -- I don't think we have ties to anyone in their faculty bstaff right now
23:15.00 brlcad the schools a listed were a subset of those where we actually worked with faculty too, on research or development
23:15.36 brlcad there have certainly been other schools
23:15.40 poolio ah cool
23:15.56 poolio brlcad: are you trying to recruit people out of college now?
23:16.22 SuperTaz it's the distinction between working with a student and a school
23:16.36 SuperTaz brl...who do you actually work for? :)
23:17.22 brlcad poolio: out of anywhere really, just need the passion, background, and interest ;)
23:17.27 AchiestDragon ie like this shows http://www.achiestdragon.org/index.php?title=Image:Snap.jpg&oldid=610 it works on the righthand monitor only
23:17.39 poolio brlcad: hehe yeah.
23:24.06 brlcad AchiestDragon: heh, I think I noticed that a long while back too
23:24.20 brlcad that's "probably" a Tk issue, but hard to say
23:24.46 AchiestDragon maybe , i am using kde and it can be a bit odd sometimes on framebuffer issues
23:25.08 AchiestDragon odd that its working on one monitor though
23:25.25 AchiestDragon and all on the same card
23:26.24 AchiestDragon think i am still going to have to reinstall linux as it does not seem ot have cleared the other issue
23:26.38 AchiestDragon that may be part of the problem though
23:33.35 AchiestDragon ho thats a point , on the gui , maybe it would be posible to write a qt4 frontends for the gui , you do know the new qt4 licence allows for gpl code to be compiled for all supported o/s's
23:34.06 AchiestDragon so that should make it a bit easyer to do the crossplatform gui mods
23:34.28 AchiestDragon <PROTECTED>
23:36.31 AchiestDragon theres talk that most kde apps will get ported to windows when the qt4 port of kde is done
23:36.53 AchiestDragon and mac . and a few other o/s's
23:38.30 brlcad AchiestDragon: it's come up *lots* of times .. opens the whole qt vs gtk debate but certainly a viable approach nonetheless
23:39.29 brlcad well aware of their licensing, though gpl is actually a downside imho -- sticking to bsd/mit/lgpl style code is generally more preferred
23:40.03 AchiestDragon i started to learn qt3 but stopped as qt4 was dew and may as well wait for it rathe than having to relearn
23:40.05 brlcad avoids integration and refactoring issues outright and generally keeps the purse-holders feeling a little more comfortable with themselves for some reason
23:40.54 SuperTaz yeah, it was interesting doing linux kernel work at motorola
23:42.08 SuperTaz we got it done, though...there was a balance we had to maintain between what was open source and what was closed
23:42.16 SuperTaz it was interesting to say the least
23:42.20 yukonbob AchiestDragon: your display issue sounds more like X than kde/gnome or a wm issue to me... depending on display properties, I've got apps that'll do that too (start mplayer on one screen and try to drag to other)... I'm using XOrg(6.x) witha MergedFB (versus Xinerama, for example) with no problems...
23:43.42 AchiestDragon i think its an x issue also , as it basicaly apperears a bit odd with its own settings sometimes
23:44.31 AchiestDragon now with the 2 card setup i had the same problem with xine only displaying video on the same monitor , but with 1 card it works fine on all
23:44.51 AchiestDragon just mged seems to have the same problem still
23:46.05 AchiestDragon i will reinstall , but not tonight , need to be in the right mood or will get ratty
23:46.12 yukonbob :)
23:48.01 AchiestDragon i have been putting it off , untill the next hdd upgrade , then can just do a fresh install and copy the files over after
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