IRC log for #brlcad on 20081028

00:02.40 starseeker of course, one way to approach this would be to simply store the names of the units in all cases and just convert when actually doing calculations - unit->string is convenient in some cases but I'm not sure it's truly necessary for what we do
02:28.11 yukonbob hello, cadheads
02:28.17 starseeker howdy :-)
02:28.25 yukonbob what's shaking, starseeker?
02:28.34 starseeker not a lot - new option to search
02:28.45 starseeker monkeying with units
02:28.52 yukonbob nods
02:29.04 yukonbob unit monkey-er
02:29.38 yukonbob chews food, trying to think of bite-size software project he can take on....
02:30.37 starseeker new primitive :-)
02:31.24 yukonbob oh, no, I've got a list of stuff already :P -- I just need to make progress... I've got a system that's so unstable right now, I don't even have brl-cad up/running...
02:31.55 yukonbob my goal is to stabalize and get brl-cad up/running, then check status of some ancient bugs I've already got on my radar :)
02:32.34 yukonbob It's not a question of "to do's" for me, it's a question of time :P Work is taking it all :P
02:34.55 louipc yep
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11:59.51 mafm hi
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13:00.33 brlcad howdy mafm
13:12.15 starseeker drools over color epaper
13:12.59 starseeker and resigns himself to the inevitable - commute time!
13:13.05 brlcad epaper is awesomeness
13:49.24 CIA-24 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r33085 10/brlcad/trunk/ (7 files in 4 dirs): Added the rrt function to libged.
13:51.25 claymore morning all
13:53.48 mafm brlcad: are you going to gsoc mentor summit?
14:00.09 brlcad mafm: heh, I just got back from the summit
14:00.31 brlcad had fun talking to one of the ogre leads about your project
14:02.54 brlcad howdy claymore
14:03.07 brlcad glances over his shoulder just to make sure he didn't miss something
14:03.35 ``Erik O.o
14:05.22 mafm brlcad: oh, I thought that you were going in the plane yesterday, not going back...
14:05.32 mafm brlcad: who's the devel?
14:07.19 brlcad left on thursday
14:18.32 mafm brlcad: who's the devel?
14:19.18 brlcad ah, assaf I think
14:21.58 brlcad his name escapes me at the moment, has mid-long curly hair, glasses, skinny, tallish ;)
14:22.51 brlcad not my buddy steve streeting though, he wasn't there this year
14:23.17 mafm I don't have physical references of any of them :)
14:23.23 mafm just nicknames
14:24.07 brlcad steve is sinbad
14:24.14 mafm yes
14:24.15 brlcad don't know assaf's nickname
14:24.23 mafm and then another ones like pjcast...
14:25.25 mafm About: Assaf joined the team in March 2008, and is the primary Dx10 maintainer.
14:25.33 mafm so quite a new fella
14:25.34 mafm :)
14:26.17 mafm any useful comments, in example about the GUI libs?
14:37.43 claymore isn't doing so well this morning. Dizzy, headache, etc.
14:38.15 claymore brlcad: moved that release sync meeting to wednesday since you said you prolly wouldnt be in today lol ;)
14:46.43 claymore is about to throw his router against the wall... it won't forward any ports to save its life.....
14:46.47 claymore screams.
14:47.11 ``Erik so foward the starboards instead? HA. HA. HA. okI'llshutupnow
14:47.51 claymore now has a new target for his router in lieu of the wall.
14:48.13 claymore erik: back @ work?
14:48.47 ``Erik ayup *flees his office to avoid high velocity networking equipment*
14:49.43 claymore Well if I had a router-pult that could sling a wrt-54g ~45 miles then I would think it would be party time at mi casa.
15:17.22 CIA-24 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r33086 10/brlcad/trunk/ (5 files in 4 dirs): Added the echo function to libged.
15:23.40 ``Erik starseeker: http://pastebin.bzflag.bz/d7fac673e
15:26.59 CIA-24 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r33087 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man1/en/g_qa.xml: Tweak g_qa docbook man page.
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16:05.59 mafm fuse-sshfs ftw!
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18:48.47 CIA-24 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r33088 10/brlcad/trunk/src/mged/rtif.c: Remove dead duplicate code.
19:01.14 ``Erik Trab pu kcip! Trab pu kcip!
19:49.52 mafm night
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23:18.44 cad23 hello
23:20.20 cad23 Does anyone know where I can get more info on rtarea and rtweight
23:20.39 cad23 I was told man pages but man rtarea and man rtweight didn't return anything
23:21.04 ``Erik you probably have to update your MANPATH (or use 'brlman', which does that for you)
23:23.48 cad23 that worked great thank you
23:25.57 cad23 Do you know where I can look to find more information on how the models are stored?
23:27.03 ``Erik uhm, you mean the format of the .g file?
23:27.40 cad23 yes
23:28.07 cad23 I think logically it's a tree of operations
23:28.42 ``Erik the csg stuff is arranged that way... we have a database format document, but it's out of date :/ the source is the documentation now
23:28.58 ``Erik mostly in src/librt (src/libwdb might be worth looking at, or the procdb stuff a little bit)
23:31.28 cad23 the rtarea doesn't seem like what I wanted
23:32.01 ``Erik yeah, it's the area of a view, not the total exposed surface area :/
23:32.33 cad23 I talked to a proffessor in computer graphics and he said it's impossible to get the total surface area
23:33.47 ``Erik not impossible, but complex and expensive (and we don't have an automagic knob to cook cpu for that)
23:34.15 cad23 he said the approximation is the best bet
23:34.24 ``Erik would imagine a surface walking algorithm could probably do it in a reasonable fashion
23:38.30 cad23 rtarea from 3 orthogonal views might be an easy way to approximate surface area
23:40.34 ``Erik then you have to correlate all the surfaces between all 3 views :/
23:45.23 cad23 so not very practical
23:51.43 cad23 thank you for your time

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