IRC log for #brlcad on 20080229

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01:20.42 CIA-32 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30440 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/lib/Dm.tcl: gah, merge a fix made for 7.10.4 on the stable branch that didn't make its way back to the trunk. this fix makes the Dm class not blindly try to open :0 but instead checks what env(DISPLAY) is set to.
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04:13.03 minusinsk hello
04:13.23 minusinsk here only english-speakers?
04:13.52 louipc mostly
04:14.08 minusinsk no russians?
04:15.26 louipc I don't think so
04:15.45 minusinsk Brlcad have a non-english language localisation and internationalization?
04:17.04 louipc hmm doesn't look like it
04:17.28 minusinsk Is it possible to convert the programme into other languages?
04:18.07 louipc of course. it might take a lot of work though
04:18.42 louipc you'd have to patch gettext functionality in the apps or something
04:23.13 minusinsk somebody need do it :)
04:23.56 louipc yea :D
04:25.25 louipc docs would be better to translate first though
04:25.27 minusinsk who can? Who is Master Yoda? :)
04:26.03 louipc well there are people that have the skills but are too busy doing other things
04:26.26 minusinsk docs.. maybe i can in Russian, but i'm not a engeneer-constructor
04:26.43 louipc did you go to brlcad.org?
04:26.55 minusinsk yeah, i did
04:26.55 louipc there are pdfs there
04:27.16 minusinsk pdf is not good for edit
04:27.27 louipc ... there are also manpages when you install the program
04:27.36 minusinsk odf is more better
04:27.48 louipc odf eh?
04:28.02 louipc minusinsk: well some people are trying to convert everything to docbook
04:28.10 louipc xml
04:28.18 minusinsk Open Document Format ISO/IEC 26300
04:28.22 louipc ah
04:28.37 minusinsk it's xml too
04:29.34 louipc it's not really meant for conversion to different formats though eh?
04:30.51 minusinsk OpenOffice have a many formats for export from odf
04:33.25 louipc cool
04:37.49 minusinsk export to BibTeX, LaTeX2, mediaWiki, pdf, and much more office formats
04:38.34 minusinsk ok, i will try translate docs from pdf to odf and translete them
04:38.49 louipc cool!
04:38.49 minusinsk in my language
04:39.00 louipc that's a huge task
04:39.04 minusinsk it's first
04:39.32 minusinsk after that need support UTF-8 for Brlcad
04:39.44 minusinsk it's jobfor programmers
04:39.56 louipc yep
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05:13.37 yukonbob minusinsk: BRL-CAD might already have support, depending on how it's necessary... Tcl was one of the first (the first?) cross-platform languages w/ UTF support, and has good i18n support...
05:19.36 minusinsk i'm remember that UTF-8 is in TCL/TK only few time
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05:23.00 yukonbob minusinsk: there are also two large documents converted to DocBook format... you can retrieve them via svn (not sure if they're shipping in any distribution)... DocBook is the format that the project is using for the documentation.
05:23.53 minusinsk ok, i can imported them
05:24.39 starseeker I would suggest first translating the text (which you should be able to get out of the pdf) and then integrating that with the docbook markup once it becomes available
05:24.50 yukonbob ~cadsvn
05:24.51 ibot To obtain BRL-CAD from Subversion: svn checkout https://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk brlcad
05:25.09 minusinsk tnx
05:25.26 yukonbob hey starseeker
05:25.30 starseeker howdy :-)
05:26.01 louipc yukonbob: those pdfs are all done !?
05:26.07 louipc I mean to docbook
05:26.13 starseeker not yet
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05:26.27 louipc ah I was going to say nice job yo!
05:26.41 starseeker IIRC, vol 4 is pretty far along, vol 2 is (sort of) started and vol 3 is on the todo list
05:26.46 yukonbob louipc: no -- I've done volume iv, starseeker did one(?), and there's more to do... we had a _big_ push a whlie ago, but nothing lately :)
05:26.51 louipc vol2 is a doosie
05:27.29 starseeker Now that I'm getting more docbook and tool experience (xmlto + fop = goodness)
05:27.39 starseeker I SHOULD be able to better convert vol2
05:28.06 starseeker Much of the markup in vol2 will probably need to be re-done, but it's a start
05:28.56 yukonbob starseeker: what kind of data?
05:29.10 starseeker US Geologic Survey geologic information
05:29.44 starseeker Oddly enough, there seems to be some halfway decent DLG stuff
05:29.53 starseeker which will take forever and a day to download...
05:30.35 starseeker I had to ignore a robot file, which meant I'm throttling the download speed down to next to nothing so as not to annoy anyone
05:30.49 starseeker Digital Line graph
05:30.50 yukonbob hrm -- http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/2339246
05:31.46 starseeker That's "it's too unstable for just anyone to use, so we'll hammer on it and at the same time get good App performance for Apple apps."
05:32.10 starseeker Unlike MS, there is a quasi-realistic hope that Apple's software will achieve stability inside the decade...
05:32.45 yukonbob starseeker: re DLG -- what are you using it for?
05:33.06 starseeker yukonbob: Nothing in particular at the moment - might try giving GRASS a workout
05:33.07 louipc hehe
05:34.00 starseeker yukonbob: All sorts of neat Google-like map visualizations that might be tried, given proper tool knowledge
05:34.20 starseeker yukonbob: Not remotely BRL-CAD related though...
05:36.48 brlcad yukonbob: read the comment from David Hyatt
05:37.15 brlcad it's really a stupid /. posting, sensationalist crap
05:37.31 brlcad there's more down in the /. comments
05:39.59 starseeker brlcad: Just curious - has anyone ever tried doing anything with BRL-CAD + GIS data?
05:40.34 starseeker + BRL-CAD?
05:41.17 brlcad DSP is a brl-cad primitive type
05:41.21 brlcad so yes :)
05:41.27 yukonbob yup -- DSP == displacement map in BRL-CAD... DEM = digital elevation model
05:41.32 brlcad http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/puget01.png is an example
05:41.37 starseeker er...
05:41.51 starseeker s/?/!
05:42.09 starseeker That's cool
05:42.13 brlcad that's the high-res puget de data
05:43.25 starseeker What DEM # corresponds to that high res?
05:43.31 brlcad that's the 16k x 16k data from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/large_models/ps.html
05:44.20 brlcad where they'd already extracted from dem, conveniently in a format nearly ideal for dsp
05:44.40 brlcad shoulda applied the texture too, but was just playing around
05:44.47 yukonbob starseeker: there's other info that could be used easily -- for example, png "height shade" images (I believe that's what they're called) -- _not_ to be confused w/ "shade slope" models, though, which might look the same at first glance...
05:45.32 yukonbob brlcad: any luck tracking that mem leak wrt dsp?
05:49.45 brlcad haven't looked at it :(
05:49.51 brlcad but keep kicking me, I will
05:50.17 yukonbob :)
05:51.54 biketron anyone have any luck using brl-cad on mac osx leopard?
05:53.03 brlcad biketron: the X11 server in leopard is busted ..
05:53.53 biketron ugh..
05:53.59 brlcad apple's got a fix in the works, but it was outright broken when they switched to X.org's R7
05:55.09 biketron eta on the fix?
05:57.16 yukonbob as soon as it's finished, but no sooner?
05:57.46 biketron :)
05:58.10 yukonbob :)
05:58.59 yukonbob is it reasonable to (temporarily?) install X from fink or similar? (Some Mac-head can comment whether that even really makes sense)...
05:59.34 louipc mac ports?
05:59.54 yukonbob ya -- whatever -- as long as you can use X w/o clobbering the 'native' install...
05:59.56 louipc http://www.macports.org/
06:00.14 louipc I don't know anything about mac *shrug*
06:03.49 yukonbob nothing to know. Push the single button mouse and your screen smiles at you. Mac folks are easy to amuse.
06:14.24 brlcad yukonbob: i don't know of anyone that has tried and I don't have easy access to 10.5 atm
06:16.46 brlcad 10.4's X11 works just fine ;)
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10:08.03 cad76 hello i would like to ask how to start the program after instalation?
10:08.21 clock_ cad76: mged
10:08.56 clock_ actually better mged test.g otherwise it will yell it doesn't have any database open when you try to create some body
10:11.54 cad76 terminal says - command not found
10:12.13 clock_ updatedb
10:12.15 clock_ locate mged
10:15.20 cad76 i will try to reinstall :)
10:16.27 cad76 thank you
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10:37.58 Axman6 clock_: isn't it nice when people listen to you?
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15:09.51 ``Erik heh
15:32.07 ``Erik Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. But light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
15:36.09 elite01 hehe :)
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17:42.53 brlcad c'mon baby light my fire
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21:05.40 CIA-32 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r30441 10/brlcad/trunk/ (7 files in 5 dirs): Add -d option to MGED tree command for limiting depth of tree printing.
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22:54.49 ``Erik w00t, upgrade on the new bz took
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