| 00:02.29 | pacman87 | sketch: https://webspace.utexas.edu/trv82/www/rev_wf05.png |
| 00:02.29 | pacman87 | wireframe: https://webspace.utexas.edu/trv82/www/rev_wf04.png |
| 00:02.42 | pacman87 | raytrace: https://webspace.utexas.edu/trv82/www/rev_rt10.png |
| 00:05.02 | louipc | swept around Z? |
| 00:05.21 | pacman87 | yes |
| 00:05.48 | pacman87 | the sketch is revolved about its y-axis, which i told revolve to line up with the 3d Z-axis |
| 00:06.22 | louipc | cool |
| 00:06.53 | pacman87 | showing the 'auto-close' for open sketches |
| 00:07.16 | louipc | yeah I was wondering heheh |
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| 00:42.54 | brlcad | poolio: yahoo! .. pics?! :) |
| 00:46.23 | brlcad | pacman87: interesting closure on the base -- does it stay open if the base of those two segments line up perfectly? do they line up now? |
| 00:47.41 | brlcad | if they do line up, that's the one case I might have expected it to stop at the inner segment |
| 00:50.56 | poolio | brlcad: err...it looks exactly the same as brep_cube/breplicator/etc... |
| 00:52.03 | poolio | I'm working on generalizing to not just 4-sided things now. Is there a way to define surfaces shaped like say, triangles? I know there is...I'm just not quite sure how :) The approach I was going to do was creating a rectangle that encloses the area and cutting out of that. |
| 00:52.06 | brlcad | ah, k |
| 00:53.19 | brlcad | that example file I pointed you at made a triangle.. |
| 00:54.36 | poolio | Yes, but it did so by creating a rectangular suface and trimming a triangle |
| 00:55.04 | brlcad | pacman87: oh, I see what you did now .. never mind :) |
| 00:55.16 | brlcad | the rt is "upside down" from what I thought I was looking at |
| 00:58.11 | pacman87 | brlcad: yeah, they stop because on the inside, it's a zero length hit segment, so i ignore it |
| 01:04.49 | brlcad | oh.. heh, I was thinking that if you draw lines from the endpoints to the y axis, the wider base ends up connecting the two edges on the outside leaving the base open yet the narrow top has a clear path the the y axis for both segment endpoints so you end up with a thick top |
| 01:09.24 | brlcad | from a 'top' view, render rt -k 0,0,1,0 .. what does that look like? |
| 01:10.01 | pacman87 | lookign down along Z? |
| 01:11.31 | pacman87 | two circles |
| 01:11.39 | pacman87 | bright white center, grey outside that |
| 01:12.08 | pacman87 | *two concentric circles |
| 01:15.20 | brlcad | erm |
| 01:15.35 | brlcad | you said https://webspace.utexas.edu/trv82/www/rev_wf05.png is rotating around the +Y axis? |
| 01:15.54 | pacman87 | that is the sketch |
| 01:16.00 | brlcad | cutting +z should cut it in half (a "C") |
| 01:16.22 | pacman87 | it rotates about the sketch's y axis |
| 01:16.32 | pacman87 | the 3d axis is 0,0,1 |
| 01:16.38 | brlcad | ahhh |
| 01:16.53 | brlcad | so left view with 0,1,0,0 |
| 01:21.56 | pacman87 | rt -F/dev/X -C 128/192/255 |
| 01:24.03 | pacman87 | oops |
| 01:24.09 | pacman87 | https://webspace.utexas.edu/trv82/www/rev_rt11.png |
| 01:43.40 | brlcad | cool! |
| 01:43.47 | brlcad | wierd black line... |
| 01:44.03 | brlcad | if that's straight-on, it's probably a bug |
| 01:44.42 | brlcad | normal going the wrong way on grazing or something |
| 02:16.09 | pacman87 | no, it's a little above |
| 02:16.19 | pacman87 | straight-on is buggy |
| 02:16.39 | pacman87 | so is looking along the revolve axis |
| 02:16.54 | pacman87 | those i'll have to handle as special cases |
| 02:26.05 | pacman87 | s/above/below |
| 02:30.21 | brlcad | cool |
| 02:30.49 | pacman87 | is there a way to choose 'X' from commandline after -c? |
| 02:47.12 | poolio | brlcad: hmm...so code works with rectangular faces...triangles make it blow up for some reason :\ |
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| 03:15.27 | brlcad | pacman87: ' |
| 03:15.33 | brlcad | 'X' ? |
| 03:15.48 | brlcad | poolio: ahh :) |
| 03:16.05 | pacman87 | attach (nu|X|ogl)[nu]? |
| 03:17.34 | brlcad | ooh, *mged* -c .. was thinking rt -c :) |
| 03:22.05 | brlcad | yes, either answer X at the attach prompt or run "attach X" afterwards |
| 03:23.00 | pacman87 | i was hoping for a one-line way to start mged so i could skip the prompt |
| 03:23.22 | pacman87 | /usr/brlcad/bin/mged -c ~/brlcad/test/open.g |
| 03:23.50 | brlcad | ahh, interesting |
| 03:23.51 | pacman87 | if it's possible to have -c take an argument |
| 03:24.00 | brlcad | don't think anyone has ever asked that :) |
| 03:24.02 | pacman87 | /usr/brlcad/bin/mged -c X ~/brlcad/test/open.g |
| 03:24.16 | pacman87 | well, i restart mged every time i compile |
| 03:24.34 | brlcad | no, at least not optionally and still be able to tell the diff with a filename arg that optionally follows |
| 03:25.08 | pacman87 | what about just -X instead of -c |
| 03:25.29 | brlcad | i do too, but mged -c file.g[enter][enter] does the trick for me ;) |
| 03:26.08 | pacman87 | it defaults to nu, right/ |
| 03:26.09 | poolio | brlcad: So I failed a bit on some basic geometry stuff. I'm trying to enclose a face in a rectangular surface. I want to compute 2 points on the plane that will be the lower left/upper right of the rectangle. Is there an easy way of doing this? |
| 03:26.09 | pacman87 | ? |
| 03:26.48 | brlcad | -x and -X are taken, they are debug options for almost every one of brl-cad's apps |
| 03:26.58 | pacman87 | -cX? |
| 03:27.07 | brlcad | librt and libbu respectively |
| 03:27.58 | brlcad | -cX is no different than -c -X |
| 03:28.08 | pacman87 | --cX? |
| 03:28.15 | brlcad | (think tar -xvf == tar -x -v -f |
| 03:28.23 | pacman87 | yeah, i forgot about that |
| 03:29.45 | brlcad | could maybe add "-a display_manager", e.g. -a X |
| 03:30.02 | brlcad | or take over the deprecated -n |
| 03:30.38 | pacman87 | would that imply -c? |
| 03:30.58 | pacman87 | ie, would specifying the display manager make sense for non-classic mode? |
| 03:37.21 | starseeker | brlcad: Random mostly off topic question - what's the leading finite element library with a license compatible with BRL-CAD? |
| 03:42.40 | brlcad | right now -c == -n and both are optionless |
| 03:43.37 | brlcad | but yeah, a -a would imply -c |
| 03:44.23 | brlcad | starseeker: why our own libfem of course! |
| 03:44.49 | starseeker | :-) |
| 03:44.52 | brlcad | depends, you wanting meshing, analysis, or both? |
| 03:45.05 | brlcad | open soure fea/fem sucks |
| 03:45.49 | starseeker | was thinking anything we don't have that we would need to do in-BRL-CAD analysis... |
| 03:46.12 | starseeker | notes that the first hit on google for libfem is the mailing list for Liberty and Feminism |
| 03:46.55 | brlcad | gmesh is probably one of the better fem tools, i've heard of impact for fea but not looked into it |
| 03:47.26 | brlcad | they're about as far away from high-end commercial fea codes as we are from full-blown catia |
| 03:48.34 | starseeker | ow |
| 03:48.57 | brlcad | pacman87: not pertinent to what you're needing, but if you didn't know -- you can add a command after the .g file and mged will run it |
| 03:49.02 | starseeker | Is openFEM worth anything? |
| 03:49.03 | brlcad | and then quit.. |
| 03:49.25 | brlcad | could add a mod to make certain commands keep mged running |
| 03:49.39 | brlcad | ones (like attach) that make no sense as single-action commands |
| 03:49.47 | brlcad | so this would work: mged -c brlcad/db/moss.g attach X |
| 03:50.37 | pacman87 | can you do multiple commands? |
| 03:51.49 | brlcad | mged -c brlcad/db/moss.g "attach X ; puts hello" |
| 03:52.41 | brlcad | alternatively, it'll take stdin too so you can batch commands together |
| 03:53.03 | brlcad | e.g. mged -c blah.g <<EOF |
| 03:53.04 | brlcad | tops |
| 03:53.06 | brlcad | whatever |
| 03:53.08 | brlcad | EOF |
| 03:53.43 | brlcad | or put that in some mged_script and "mged -c blah.g source mged_script" instead |
| 03:54.03 | brlcad | starseeker: yeah, they're pretty good |
| 03:54.16 | brlcad | not so much a tool but set of routines |
| 03:54.31 | starseeker | Ah |
| 03:55.30 | starseeker | guesses this sounds like a situation where maybe we will end up creating a libfem :-) |
| 03:55.34 | brlcad | inria's pretty intense in their research |
| 03:55.50 | brlcad | they're a research powerhouse |
| 03:55.55 | starseeker | :-) |
| 03:57.48 | starseeker | groans as he updates his gentoo profile and starts one more round of re-compiles... |
| 03:58.46 | starseeker | 'course, Mike is already working on some FEM stuff, IIRC... |
| 04:01.14 | brlcad | inria is the source of gems like OCaml and SmartEiffel |
| 04:01.29 | brlcad | oh, and you probably know of coq and scilab |
| 04:01.31 | starseeker | Ah, yes - Scilab too, IIRC |
| 04:01.35 | starseeker | heh - yep |
| 04:01.53 | starseeker | coq is amazingggggggggg |
| 04:02.20 | brlcad | yeah, mike hooked an importer into sandia's cubit |
| 04:02.42 | brlcad | cubit is pretty snazzy, they have one of the *best* mesher libs |
| 04:03.19 | brlcad | and one of the best low-budget fem tools (alas not fully open source nor free) |
| 04:03.27 | brlcad | though their geometry lib is lgplg |
| 04:03.50 | brlcad | there mesh lib is the bread n' butter, though, and they're not letting go |
| 04:04.08 | starseeker | hmm - is there any chance at all they can be made to see reason? |
| 04:04.35 | brlcad | only if someone(tm) hooked brl-cad into their backend as the geometry format and geometry engine |
| 04:05.02 | brlcad | they have to charge "something" for cubit as they use the ACIS engine |
| 04:05.12 | starseeker | oh |
| 04:05.18 | brlcad | licensing issues |
| 04:05.21 | starseeker | googles ACIS |
| 04:06.56 | starseeker | hmm. Would they be supportive of a port or fight the idea? |
| 04:07.11 | brlcad | hook all of our converters, librt, libged, libwdb, libbu, and libbn together into one clean unified object-oriented API, and we overlap about 75%-90% of what ACIS does, they're the big dog of CAD kernels |
| 04:08.04 | starseeker | ouch |
| 04:08.04 | brlcad | oh everyone would be supportive, sandia said they'd love it (if it worked as well/better) |
| 04:08.22 | brlcad | just a lot of work for somewhat minimal payoff and no manpower to dedicate |
| 04:08.39 | brlcad | really begs for BREP support being fully in place first as well as our OO geometry engine |
| 04:08.54 | brlcad | (next year's priority) |
| 04:09.00 | starseeker | Ah |
| 04:09.57 | starseeker | looks for his API scrubbing gear... |
| 04:11.32 | starseeker | So it makes the most sense to do BREP and the OO engine (needed anyway) and then use the new functionality + cleanup to get cubit off of the ACIS gravy train |
| 04:11.44 | starseeker | and thus take advantage of some really good code |
| 04:12.19 | brlcad | we would increase (developer) interest in BRL-CAD by more than an order of magnitude if we had an ACIS-compatible geometry kernel API |
| 04:12.44 | starseeker | Does ACIS publish the specs for their API? |
| 04:12.53 | brlcad | e.g. something that'd convert an acis call into our geometry engine, like wine |
| 04:13.10 | starseeker | nods |
| 04:13.44 | brlcad | don't think so, you'd have to (legally try to) reverse engineer it |
| 04:13.53 | starseeker | ow ow ow |
| 04:14.30 | brlcad | just guessing, I haven't searched too hard given our other priorities |
| 04:14.38 | starseeker | right |
| 04:16.02 | brlcad | really need BREP/NURBS representation working, CSG eval of NURBS working, tessellation of NURBS, LIBGED completed, and our object-oriented geometry engine working before working on that becomes a tractable semi-even-thinkable/practical task |
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| 04:16.36 | brlcad | ~andrecastelo_++ |
| 04:17.10 | brlcad | excitedly anticipates a flat-shaded image |
| 04:17.30 | louipc | ö |
| 04:19.17 | yukonbob | like 'toon-shading? |
| 04:19.37 | starseeker | Hmm - http://doc.spatial.com/r18/index.php/InterOp:Connect/ACIS |
| 04:20.04 | brlcad | yukonbob: no, that'd be cell-shading |
| 04:20.21 | brlcad | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shading |
| 04:20.32 | yukonbob | s/cell/cel/ |
| 04:20.49 | brlcad | nods |
| 04:21.05 | brlcad | more like the two distance falloff images on the wikipedia page |
| 04:21.28 | brlcad | (more specifically the left first, then next get the right working) |
| 04:22.07 | starseeker | Looks like at least some of ACIS has public docs, although they have some "coming soon" links to what is probably the core ACIS docs |
| 04:23.50 | brlcad | starseeker: this makes me think it's entirely closed even if you do find bits n pieces: http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/adsk_inventor/select/grabowksi_shapemanager.htm |
| 04:24.24 | brlcad | otherwise one of the other 4 billion dollar per year cad giants would have done it already |
| 04:25.27 | starseeker | hmm |
| 04:26.38 | starseeker | Depends on what he means by "expose the API" - that sounds as if they have a full version of the ACIS sources and plan to keep working based on those |
| 04:26.54 | starseeker | unless I'm reading the article wrong |
| 04:28.08 | brlcad | but that they're forced to shimmy a layer between their kernel and the acis api (so they cannot possibly be a drop-in replacement) |
| 04:29.07 | starseeker | Right, but I'm reading that as hiding the ACIS API because their license to the source doesn't let them just take it and expose it - they'd be exposing ACIS's api using ACIS's own source code behind it |
| 04:29.23 | starseeker | So they're keeping the ACIS source, but using a different API |
| 04:29.30 | starseeker | easier than a new kernel, I'd guess |
| 04:31.48 | starseeker | is hoping there is a difference between "exposing" and "implementing from scratch" the API |
| 04:33.27 | starseeker | kinda unclear though |
| 04:35.05 | starseeker | Yeah, thought so - Autodesk proposed to continue based on the ACIS code: http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/adsk_inventor/select/grabowski_buzzkross.htm |
| 04:37.06 | brlcad | yeah, i know the article was referring to multiple things |
| 04:37.35 | brlcad | regardless of them 'extending' acis or not -- the fact that they had to make their own api layer |
| 04:37.45 | starseeker | yep |
| 04:37.46 | brlcad | api == headers == some source |
| 04:38.35 | brlcad | there are acis headers for cubit, but have to specifically ask for them (and hey have clauses in them saying no redistribution) |
| 04:38.42 | brlcad | no authorized, that is |
| 04:38.53 | brlcad | er, unauthorized |
| 04:39.37 | brlcad | or even better -- just do what acis does but do it even better |
| 04:39.53 | starseeker | Right |
| 04:40.25 | brlcad | hence libged and new geometry service which begs a middle oo geometry engine |
| 04:41.16 | brlcad | yay for it finally being prioritied (started that particular crusade as a student when I started, that brl-cad needed an OO api) |
| 04:41.50 | starseeker | :-) |
| 04:42.17 | brlcad | MinuteElectron: any luck on figuring out why the contact page won't prompt a captcha? :-) |
| 04:42.51 | brlcad | new spammer started two weeks ago, I've gone from about 2-5 a day to 20-50 a day |
| 04:43.29 | starseeker | knows FEM analysis is long term at best, but had a random interest pop up |
| 04:43.36 | starseeker | probably needs sleep... |
| 04:46.57 | louipc | that captcha was tough. It took me three tries to get it right |
| 04:48.22 | brlcad | woot, mafm's up to the second contributor's page now that rt^3 ohloh stats are fixed |
| 04:48.46 | brlcad | puts him in the gsoccer lead |
| 04:49.16 | starseeker | now if only I could build it... |
| 04:49.17 | brlcad | starseeker: you're a mere 50 away from front-page ;) |
| 04:50.19 | starseeker | 50? |
| 04:50.25 | brlcad | commits |
| 04:50.29 | starseeker | heh |
| 04:50.31 | starseeker | ah :-) |
| 04:50.32 | brlcad | http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3996/contributors |
| 04:50.50 | brlcad | louipc: which one? |
| 04:51.06 | brlcad | (there are three) |
| 04:51.15 | louipc | oh when I registered for the wiki |
| 04:51.31 | brlcad | ah, that should have been recaptcha |
| 04:51.38 | brlcad | it's good stuff |
| 04:52.02 | brlcad | that's what I *want* on the contacts page, but can't figure out how to enable it |
| 04:52.24 | starseeker | blegh - primary language XML |
| 04:52.33 | starseeker | hangs head in shame |
| 04:52.46 | brlcad | hehe |
| 04:53.11 | starseeker | will write his spring tool just for the hell of it... |
| 04:53.33 | brlcad | spring? |
| 04:53.43 | brlcad | ooh |
| 04:53.51 | brlcad | right |
| 04:54.07 | starseeker | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(device) |
| 04:54.16 | starseeker | no one will care, but it will be fun |
| 04:54.21 | brlcad | could try to implement a helical sweep |
| 04:55.49 | starseeker | heh :-) |
| 04:57.27 | starseeker | that might be a good way to do advanced shapes like springs with elliptical wires |
| 04:59.17 | starseeker | or the spring in the lower right corner here: http://www.spring-makers-resource.net/images/compressionspringgroup.gif |
| 05:01.25 | starseeker | inserting pipes with libwdb looks to be fairly complicated all by itself |
| 05:04.16 | pacman87 | starseeker: would you be modelling the spring behavior, or jsut the position? |
| 05:04.43 | louipc | yes do the helical sweep please |
| 05:05.29 | starseeker | pcman87: Initially just the position |
| 05:05.44 | starseeker | pacman87: Behavior modeling would probably require FEM |
| 05:06.05 | starseeker | or one heck of a mathematical model |
| 05:06.16 | louipc | behaviour depends on the type of material too |
| 05:06.23 | pacman87 | i was thinking more in terms of F = -kx |
| 05:06.25 | starseeker | exactly |
| 05:06.51 | starseeker | pacman87: What would you do with F=-kx? |
| 05:07.01 | pacman87 | um... |
| 05:07.31 | starseeker | animate it? |
| 05:07.44 | pacman87 | pass it off to libphy created in next year's gsoc? |
| 05:08.01 | starseeker | Well, you could assign a behavioral equation as an attribute |
| 05:09.23 | starseeker | has always had the knack for making the most seemingly simple little problems complex and challenging... sigh |
| 05:10.11 | pacman87 | dealing with the behavior side of it in BRL-CAD is over my head |
| 05:17.50 | brlcad | reminds starseeker of http://www.wingimp.org/tutorial/3d_maze/3dmaze.jpg |
| 05:23.08 | brlcad | starseeker: doc/IDEAS .. could implement a Kaleido primitive or a Kaleido proc-db :) |
| 05:24.13 | brlcad | not that it's any more practical, but pretty cool |
| 05:24.18 | brlcad | http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/kaleido/ |
| 05:35.21 | starseeker | So either hook the kaleido code to a primitive or tie it to a proc-db? Hmm :-) |
| 05:35.29 | brlcad | removes revolve from his ideas.html page given latest progress! |
| 05:36.24 | starseeker | sleeps now... |
| 05:36.49 | brlcad | mm.. pull command |
| 05:39.05 | brlcad | strikes out the docbook tasks too! |
| 05:41.59 | brlcad | for those motivated or bored: http://brlcad.org/~sean/ideas.html |
| 05:48.36 | brlcad | figures he should probably nap a bit too |
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| 10:06.46 | mafm | hi |
| 11:30.21 | mafm | CIA-60: register my commit, at once! >:| |
| 11:30.36 | brlcad | it's slower notifications no |
| 11:30.38 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03mafm * r31774 10/rt^3/trunk/src/g3d/ (Application.cxx Application.h): Adding methods for basic camera manipulation, and to add a sample geometry to the scene |
| 11:30.38 | brlcad | now |
| 11:30.42 | mafm | :) |
| 11:30.47 | mafm | goody |
| 11:30.58 | mafm | time for a cookie for mafm (lunch), bbiab |
| 11:31.12 | brlcad | ~cookies mafm |
| 11:31.15 | ibot | ACTION hands mafm a nice, steaming chocolate chip cookie, hot from the oven |
| 12:06.46 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r31775 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/wdb_obj.c: A better fix for the dbconcat infinite loop bug. |
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| 12:19.18 | mafm | cookies, yay \o/ |
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| 12:23.45 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03mafm * r31776 10/rt^3/trunk/src/g3d/ (Commands.h GeometryConversion.cxx GeometryConversion.h): Adding GeometryConversion, and modifying the command so we can create at least sample tetraedrons |
| 13:37.58 | mafm | brlcad: would an orbital camera be enough, or it would be better another/different modes? |
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| 14:01.43 | lleroy | ? |
| 14:02.30 | mafm | ! |
| 14:02.46 | lleroy | help |
| 14:03.47 | lleroy | commands |
| 14:04.53 | lleroy | hi... can anyone help me with a problem in 7.12.4 ? |
| 14:05.09 | lleroy | db_lookup(-n) failed: -n does not exist |
| 14:05.12 | mafm | probably not me, but if you shoot somebody could eventually help |
| 14:05.25 | lleroy | while executing |
| 14:05.27 | lleroy | "_mged_ill -n -i $ri $spath" |
| 14:05.28 | lleroy | (procedure "solid_illum" line 14) |
| 14:05.30 | lleroy | invoked from within |
| 14:05.31 | lleroy | "solid_illum $item" |
| 14:05.33 | lleroy | (procedure "lbdcHack" line 35) |
| 14:05.34 | lleroy | invoked from within |
| 14:05.36 | lleroy | "lbdcHack .emid_0.listbox 43 10 99876703 id_0 s1 junkpath" |
| 14:05.37 | lleroy | (command bound to event) |
| 14:05.47 | lleroy | hmm... I never used irc, so I'm not sure how this works |
| 14:06.10 | mafm | lol, that's why you were writing "help, commands"? :D |
| 14:06.21 | mafm | basically you write, and everybody can see it |
| 14:06.36 | mafm | if you stick for a bit somebody will hopefully tell you something :) |
| 14:06.49 | lleroy | yeah... |
| 14:07.05 | lleroy | how can you see who is around ? |
| 14:07.45 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r31777 10/brlcad/trunk/src/ (libged/tra.c libged/vutil.c libtclcad/ged_obj.c): Mods to add more shift-grip functionality. Added more bindings to the new_view command. |
| 14:08.13 | lleroy | I posted a question on http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2105803&forum_id=362510 a week ago, but I got no reply |
| 14:11.37 | clock_ | lleroy: once I posted a bugreport on Samba and they fixed it after a year |
| 14:12.39 | lleroy | i see... I had feedback one issue I reported 4 years ago in mozilla recently:-) |
| 14:13.48 | lleroy | thing is, it seems so basic (like it's the first entry on one of the top level menu's and it's not working in a major release) so I hoped to get feedback somewhat quicker than a year |
| 14:14.01 | clock_ | which one of the hundreds of thousands bugs they have was it? :) |
| 14:14.52 | clock_ | lleroy: what did they say? That the version for which you reported is already discontinued so it's your fault? |
| 14:15.28 | lleroy | nah, iirc they moved it to a future milestone or so :-; |
| 14:15.34 | lleroy | ;-) |
| 14:16.24 | clock_ | with software like this I think the term "trashheap" is more suitable than "milestone". |
| 14:17.42 | mafm | lleroy: depending on the client, you can see a list on some side of the window/tab/whatever showing you who's there |
| 14:17.52 | mafm | otherwise maybe "/whois #brlcad" |
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| 14:31.55 | mafm | hi andrecastelo |
| 14:33.46 | andrecastelo | oh hi mafm |
| 14:34.18 | andrecastelo | my internet is not that stable and chatzilla reconnects after every disconnection |
| 14:34.37 | andrecastelo | so i usually have a few minions of my own in the channel (andrecastelo_ ) |
| 14:35.14 | mafm | I only have one minion, he's called brlcad |
| 14:35.22 | mafm | but he has life of his own :P |
| 14:35.31 | andrecastelo | mafm: hahaha |
| 14:36.46 | mafm | damn artificial intelligence! |
| 14:46.17 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03mafm * r31778 10/rt^3/trunk/src/g3d/ (Application.cxx Application.h Commands.h): |
| 14:46.25 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: More tweaks to the camera. I'm waiting for confirmation from other devels, but |
| 14:46.29 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: I think that the proper thing to do is to create one or several camera modes |
| 14:46.33 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: with better and more complete functionality, encapsulated in a proper way. |
| 14:49.24 | lleroy | andrecastelo: you still there? |
| 14:49.51 | andrecastelo | yes, why? |
| 14:49.54 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03pacman87 * r31779 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/primitives/revolve/ (revolve.c revolve.h): revolve prep() and shot(): automatically close open sketches - still bugs with partial revolves |
| 14:50.13 | pacman87 | i had that commit typed in last night, and apparently never hit enter... |
| 14:50.18 | lleroy | I posted a bug on the forum: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2105803&forum_id=362510 |
| 14:50.40 | lleroy | and I wonder if this is a "yeah, we know about it" bug or a "that should normally work" bug |
| 14:50.47 | mafm | pacman87: sounds like lazy evaluation... |
| 14:51.01 | lleroy | db_lookup(-n) failed: -n does not exist |
| 14:51.36 | pacman87 | mafm: i got distracted by more coding, and went to bed without looking back at that console tab |
| 14:52.20 | mafm | lleroy: what do you mean with "and I wonder if _this_ is a...", I cannot see any comment to that bug |
| 14:53.01 | lleroy | I mean... does this work in the released version, or is this broken ? |
| 14:53.03 | mafm | pacman87: so you only "evaluated" it just when you needed it commited, I guess ;) |
| 14:53.20 | lleroy | just to know if it's broken due to my compiling it or if it's in the release |
| 14:53.45 | pacman87 | i need a better process scheduler - shouldnt' have to wait all night to get processor time ;) |
| 14:53.56 | mafm | lleroy: well, the three guys that are babling actively in the channel (except for clock_) are newcomers to the project, afaik |
| 14:54.18 | mafm | and I only fired mged a couple of times, so I can't really confirm or deny.. |
| 14:54.46 | mafm | you'll probably have to wait around until some experienced devel appears |
| 14:55.37 | mafm | pacman87: you're thinking about overclocking yourself with coke, or what?! :) |
| 14:55.38 | lleroy | mafm: ok thanks. It worked on 7.10.2 for windows... so I want to know if I did something wrong during compiling on slackware... |
| 14:56.04 | pacman87 | no, i just need to renice 'sleep' to a lower priority |
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| 14:56.29 | mafm | lleroy: did you have some special compilation warnings? |
| 14:56.33 | mafm | homovulgaris o/ |
| 14:56.53 | homovulgaris | hi all .. phew.. long time.. |
| 14:57.14 | homovulgaris | mafm: did u see my 200 minute build screenshot :( |
| 14:57.20 | mafm | pacman87: well, Linus sleeps 9+ hours per day, apparently; brlcad about 4 or less... your mileage may vary :D |
| 14:57.29 | lleroy | mafm: it didn't exactly check each warning during compilation, to be honest... |
| 14:58.52 | mafm | lleroy: if you have the source around, maybe you can try to compile with "make -s", so it leaves only prominent warnings and not the whole compiler command line |
| 14:59.02 | homovulgaris | pacman87: seems like revolve is making good progress :) hows the sketch editor wishlist going :) ? |
| 14:59.03 | mafm | so errors and warnings are easier to spot |
| 14:59.21 | mafm | homovulgaris: you mean the mail about g3d? I did, yes |
| 14:59.35 | lleroy | mafm: ok, will try tomorrow. unfortunately i cannot be around on irc when the developers are on |
| 15:00.06 | homovulgaris | mafm: naah not the rt^3 build. brlcad build on my p3 took 197 minutes :P |
| 15:00.15 | mafm | lleroy: also you can try to write to brlcad-devel mailing list, it's probably the best place for things like this |
| 15:00.37 | homovulgaris | http://parametrics.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/screenshot-deos-wrk-brlcad.png |
| 15:00.43 | mafm | homovulgaris: building brlcad on arm, eh? :P |
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| 15:01.54 | homovulgaris | mafm: i'd experiment with rt^3 when i get my laptop hard disk fixed or when my desktop crosses the flood somehow :P |
| 15:02.45 | mafm | why is it so slow? |
| 15:02.47 | homovulgaris | mafm: I had a few ideas about constraint representation in the new gui.. but that is pretty far away.. I need to finish a minimal system first :P |
| 15:03.38 | mafm | yes, I have quite a few things to do myself... :) |
| 15:05.39 | pacman87 | d_rossberg: for closing an open sketch, right now i just have all open endpoints connecting directly to the y axis, instead of trying to string multiple open segments together. i think this will be more consistant, as all of the added lines can be clearly differentiated from the original sketch. |
| 15:06.07 | homovulgaris | check out Spirit sometime .. EBNF parser generator library.. almost even looks like BNF grammar :) http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/spirit/doc/introduction.html |
| 15:07.50 | mafm | homovulgaris: why is the compilation so slow? |
| 15:10.33 | homovulgaris | 7 year old computer and processor with 128 MB ram :| |
| 15:11.00 | mafm | seesh |
| 15:11.34 | mafm | might the access to a remote machine help you? |
| 15:12.08 | homovulgaris | :) with brlcad on it ? |
| 15:12.38 | mafm | I don't know if you can perform your work remotely |
| 15:12.54 | mafm | and if the lag would be a problem |
| 15:12.59 | pacman87 | distcc? |
| 15:13.25 | homovulgaris | naah.. i mean it is not that bad.. just the whole system build takes a long time.. as long as i have to do a make clean things are ok i guess |
| 15:13.53 | mafm | but probably someone around (even me if there's nobody else with better chances) can offer you access to a better machine than that one |
| 15:14.16 | homovulgaris | grrr.. I love my first computer :D |
| 15:15.02 | mafm | what's the problem with the floods anyway? |
| 15:15.16 | d_rossberg | pacman87: that's ok, automatically closing the loop will probable produce a result the user doesn't want |
| 15:15.19 | mafm | did you have to move because of them or something? |
| 15:15.39 | homovulgaris | desktop in college stuck with the courier service :D |
| 15:15.39 | d_rossberg | therefore it isn't important how it looks like as long as it is consistant |
| 15:15.54 | pacman87 | ok, that's what i thought; just making sure |
| 15:16.17 | d_rossberg | the result should help the user finding the errors |
| 15:16.37 | homovulgaris | hmm.. k .. me going back to writing grammar and finishing the parser :) |
| 15:16.50 | mafm | I see |
| 15:18.53 | d_rossberg | pacman87: your method can produce intersection in the closed loop you have to handle |
| 15:19.37 | pacman87 | hmm? |
| 15:23.47 | pacman87 | d_rossberg: intersections how? |
| 15:25.27 | homovulgaris | brlcad: when passing information from C to C++ : specifically rt_*_params to pcParser.h objects, one method is to pass them as data structures : the existing unions, pointers and so on ( example pval.vectorp ) . Since I am writing a parser for constraint expressions anyways, should i consider transfering variable/parameter information to pcParser.h via pc_pc_set as parseable text ? |
| 15:27.22 | homovulgaris | brlcad: for example, something like "@Radius#2.3#4.2#2.8" .. which is better precision wise .. conversion and passing as string or passing on a fastf_t/double as such ? and which one whould i use ? |
| 15:28.26 | d_rossberg | pacman87: look at the example i send you by mail, if you connect the end point of the first line with the y-axis this connection line will intersect the second line of the sketch |
| 15:31.28 | pacman87 | then the area to the left of the line (1,1.5); (1.5,2) will be open |
| 15:31.44 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r31780 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/book/tutorial_series/VolumeIII.xml: Markup through half of Table 8 |
| 15:33.39 | d_rossberg | if you see the intersection and handle it it's ok |
| 15:33.55 | homovulgaris | starseeker: did u think about making the industry and overview diagrams maintainable via xml ? |
| 15:34.15 | pacman87 | d_rossberg: why does it need to be handled seperately? |
| 15:34.46 | pacman87 | are you saying the hollow area is bad? |
| 15:35.08 | d_rossberg | not seperately, but you have an implicite line on the y-axis which connects the two closing lines |
| 15:46.59 | pacman87 | http://xkcd.com/371/ |
| 16:20.13 | mafm | :D |
| 16:57.53 | homovulgaris | pacman87: distcc is nice :) |
| 17:00.51 | mafm | have to go now, take care |
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| 17:15.44 | MinuteElectron | mmh |
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| 17:29.26 | brlcad | wowsa, lots of backlog to respond to .. but I gots another couple hours of meeting to go still |
| 17:30.05 | brlcad | i'll be back, but yeah .. shouldn't need to rebuild everything every time, that's for sure |
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| 17:42.07 | homovulgaris | brlcad: 403 Forbidden error while editing wiki |
| 17:43.35 | MinuteElectron | What page? |
| 17:52.15 | homovulgaris | http://brlcad.org/w/index.php?title=Libpg_:_A_parametrics/constraint_library |
| 17:52.59 | MinuteElectron | Do you get this every time you try to edit that page, or just once? |
| 17:53.40 | homovulgaris | i edited it last yesterday i guess.. today when i am trying to restructure a bit .. 403 |
| 17:53.50 | homovulgaris | tried a couple of times.. |
| 17:54.13 | MinuteElectron | I don't get an error, strange. |
| 17:54.21 | geocalc | what is the good svn to dl ? |
| 17:54.36 | MinuteElectron | brlcad: Still looking into the CAPTCHA thing. |
| 17:54.38 | homovulgaris | geocalc: u mean svn client ? |
| 17:55.06 | geocalc | no svn of brlcad |
| 17:55.42 | homovulgaris | oh.. i thought we had only the repository at sourceforge |
| 17:56.01 | homovulgaris | ~cadsvn |
| 17:56.01 | ibot | To obtain BRL-CAD from Subversion: svn checkout https://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk brlcad |
| 17:56.24 | geocalc | thanks |
| 17:56.35 | homovulgaris | np |
| 17:56.57 | homovulgaris | MinuteElectron: you are able to edit the pages ? as in submit the changes ? |
| 17:57.00 | MinuteElectron | yes |
| 17:57.17 | homovulgaris | i get the error message when i make the changes and press either preview or show changes or submit changes |
| 17:57.29 | homovulgaris | hmm.. weird.. |
| 17:57.31 | MinuteElectron | I don't, which is odd. |
| 17:57.33 | MinuteElectron | yes |
| 17:57.54 | homovulgaris | k.. let me try anonymous editing |
| 17:58.55 | MinuteElectron | brlcad: I'm stuck on this one, it seams very strange that the CAPTCHA point isn't being registered and no one in the drupal support knows either. The only other thing I can think of is the upgrade to Druapl 6. |
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| 18:02.03 | homovulgaris | the present CAPTCHA looks pretty nice . Are we having trouble with that ? |
| 18:02.18 | MinuteElectron | It doesn't show up on the contact page. |
| 18:02.39 | homovulgaris | brlcad: error message is You don't have permission to access /w/index.php on this server. |
| 18:04.43 | homovulgaris | same error from multiple browsers.. maybe my ip is in some banned range or something ? |
| 18:12.45 | homovulgaris | geocalc: also check out http://brlcad.org/wiki/Building_from_SVN |
| 18:12.45 | geocalc | ok thanks homovulgaris |
| 18:12.45 | homovulgaris | np :) .. just ping this channel if u have any build trouble |
| 18:15.49 | geocalc | ;) |
| 18:16.17 | andrecastelo | brlcad: my irc client reconnects on disconnection, so sometimes when I join the channel it's the client reconnecting |
| 18:16.38 | andrecastelo | but yes, i'm trying to tame RT_HIT_NORMAL, checking how it is used |
| 18:17.03 | andrecastelo | to find the normal vector |
| 18:18.07 | andrecastelo | but it is seg faulting.. I'm probably doing something wrong (i think it has something to do with soltab) |
| 18:19.34 | andrecastelo | here's the rayhit function, http://rafb.net/p/nwXIeQ98.html |
| 18:29.31 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r31781 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/tutorials/tire/ (19 files): Add docbook and images - user documentation for the tire procedure. |
| 18:31.16 | starseeker | homovulgaris: That's a difficult thing to attempt - svg is probably the best bet |
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| 18:33.49 | starseeker | thinks his inkscape file was/is a good start, but brlcad will probably need to look into it - there was a lot of very careful design put into things like font choices, colors, etc. |
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| 18:45.00 | homovulgaris | starseeker: I was thinking of something in dia with svg output.. but that wouldnt look very nice.. and inkscape is seriously kewl stuff.. |
| 18:45.45 | homovulgaris | somebody should build up a software project based on this : revision controllable generated diagrams and images :) |
| 19:06.13 | homovulgaris | going to watch some dumb hbo to get my brain fresh :) |
| 19:09.01 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r31782 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/book/tutorial_series/VolumeIII.xml: Add other half of Table 8 |
| 19:56.38 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r31783 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/book/tutorial_series/VolumeIII.xml: Markup through chapter 7, stub for references. Remainder will be included from articles. |
| 19:57.38 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r31784 10/brlcad/trunk/ (5 files in 3 dirs): Added ae2dir and dir2ae commands to libtclcad's ged object. |
| 20:04.23 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r31785 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/dir2ae.c: Added ae2dir and dir2ae commands to libtclcad's ged object. |
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| 20:10.33 | lleroy | Has anyone had this problem : "db_lookup(-n) failed: -n does not exist" in "Primitive Selection"? |
| 20:11.20 | lleroy | I posted a problem on the sourceforge forum http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2105803&forum_id=362510 some time ago but got no reaction... |
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| 20:46.46 | CIA-60 | BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r31786 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/primitives/revolve/revolve.c: Use MAX_FASTF instead of 1.0/0.0 |
| 21:08.30 | pacman87 | awww, i liked dividing by zero ;) |
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| 22:21.21 | pacman87 | i think i just killed a bug |
| 22:53.41 | poolio | pacman87: code or real life?? |
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