IRC log for #brlcad on 20090110

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00:42.44 starseeker ``Erik: You're running haiku?
00:43.34 starseeker brlcad: I'm being nominated to fix picket fence?
00:43.36 starseeker makes note
00:50.53 ``Erik nope, starseeker, I just like being a pita
00:51.21 ``Erik haiku is more up jay-lo and brlcad's alley, I'm more of a unix classicist, more likely to have hpux, aix, or *bsd
00:52.43 ``Erik this is annoying, I wanna go poop, but I don't wanna miss the end of this atlantis, I haven't seen it before
00:52.47 ``Erik curses his lack of tivo
00:56.53 ``Erik O.O
00:57.02 ``Erik wow, I'm glad I didn't leave, that was... not very tv like
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01:47.10 starseeker heh - boing
01:47.34 ``Erik eh?
01:47.44 ``Erik keep your boners private, boy
01:48.40 starseeker no no - brlcad's in and out of the channel
01:48.49 starseeker what was the weird ending - movie like?
01:49.48 ``Erik um, on atlantis, two people were body swapped, one was about to be killed, they unfuxxed the body swap, the one with the gun to the head said "no, it's me" and started spouting facts, the dude with the gun said "I don't believe you", cut to black, bang
01:50.51 ``Erik thinks the writers heard about the cancellation before writing the last few episodes and said "fuck bubblegum and lollipops, let's do it good"
01:51.47 ``Erik this episode has been fairly dark and grim, highly unusual (using marylin manson and johnny cash in the audio), ... I'm actually excited to see the next :D
01:52.59 starseeker ah
01:53.10 starseeker cheerful
01:53.51 ``Erik ah, this'd be the episode lee talked about, with the 5mph a10's
01:54.18 Ralith ``Erik: yeah, but you *know* cut-to-black-bang means someone *else* got shot or something.
01:54.45 ``Erik nah, was a one-shot character
01:54.48 Ralith also 5mph a10s would be pretty awesome for the first few seconds
01:54.50 Ralith oh, ok
01:54.50 ``Erik who was a "grey" figure
01:54.52 Ralith in that case awesome
01:55.02 Ralith (after the first few seconds they would run out of ammo)
01:55.20 ``Erik I d'no, a10's carry a LOT of 30mm rounds
01:55.32 Ralith hm? I thought all they had was the big axial gun.
01:55.34 ``Erik they could burn off the gun a dozen times over with the their load
01:55.44 Ralith 'burn off'?
01:55.46 ``Erik they have the big 30 up front, plus whatever's on the pods
01:55.59 ``Erik uhm, guns generate heat, heat dissepation is an issue
01:56.05 Ralith ah yeah.
01:56.10 Ralith that thing's only 30mm?
01:56.10 ``Erik portable machine guns have big air coolers, some even had water coolers
01:56.19 Ralith could've sworn it was bigger.
01:56.27 Ralith anyway, you know how fast it fires
01:56.29 ``Erik 30mm DU rounds will punch through just about any tanks top armor
01:56.39 ``Erik most aircraft carry 14.4 or 20mm
01:56.50 ``Erik with a fraction of the load of an a10
01:56.59 Ralith it might carry tons of ammo but it fires at ridiculous rates
01:57.11 ``Erik oh yeah
01:57.19 ``Erik but it can only do short bursts before it has to stop to cool
01:57.28 Ralith point
01:58.00 Ralith someone should apply the a10 concept to a helicopter :D
01:58.23 ``Erik um
01:58.26 ``Erik they call it the apache?
01:58.29 ``Erik :D
01:58.44 ``Erik ah64?
01:59.02 ``Erik or, dare I say it, the HIN-E
01:59.05 PrezKennedy they brought the heli concept over ti planes with a-10 is more like it
01:59.12 PrezKennedy *to
02:00.00 ``Erik a10 is '72, ah64 is '81
02:00.05 ``Erik care to rethink? :D
02:00.21 ``Erik all hail wikipedia
02:01.07 Ralith ``Erik: bah, rocket pods don't count.
02:01.28 Ralith I mean ridiculously huge gun :D
02:02.00 Ralith (although recoil would probably crash the thing)
02:02.20 ``Erik the nose gun on the ah64 is pretty brutal, especially with the helmet controlled aim
02:02.30 Ralith they have helmet controlled aim?
02:02.32 Ralith cooool
02:02.45 ``Erik yeah, the gunner looks at the target, the 30mm gun points there
02:02.58 ``Erik there's a reticule on a flip down pane that provides crosshairs
02:03.08 Ralith that's pretty awesome
02:03.24 Ralith hopefully it aligns quickly?
02:03.26 ``Erik it's an m230, not a gau8, slower rate of fire, MUCH smaller ammo suppy
02:03.28 ``Erik instantly
02:03.36 Ralith nice!
02:03.50 ``Erik the apache one is a single bolt feeder, the a10 one is a 6 barrel gattlign
02:04.12 ``Erik again, heat dissipation issue :D
02:04.18 Ralith yup.
02:04.35 Ralith I want a helicopter gunship :(
02:04.55 Ralith is it still a practical antitank weapon at low rates of fire like that?
02:05.02 ``Erik meh, if your'e gonna go to a gunship, why not get an ac130?
02:05.16 ``Erik yes, the bullets penetrate most top armor
02:05.25 PrezKennedy <3 ac-130
02:05.41 ``Erik howitzer with wings
02:05.42 PrezKennedy favorite part of the movie Transformers is when they call in one of those
02:06.09 Ralith ah, that thing
02:06.29 Ralith eh, hard to be personal about it when you're that far away.
02:06.37 Ralith and none of the awesome heli maneuvering, either.
02:06.43 ``Erik tanks are built with most of the armor on the front glacis, the big deal about the tow missile is that it flies OVER the target and shoots down, into the thinner top armor... aircraft happen to always hit the top armor
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02:07.36 ``Erik hehehe, screw heli maneuvers, a specters usual pattern is to acquire an "orbit" and pummel the target from like ten miles out
02:07.59 Ralith yeah, I know
02:08.03 Ralith but it's not as cool :(
02:08.26 ``Erik well, it's like comparing drag racers to formula 100's
02:08.33 ``Erik they're built for very different purposes
02:08.54 Ralith yup
02:49.09 ``Erik itches to jabber about spoilers O.o
03:06.28 Ralith ?
03:12.37 ``Erik stargate atlantis
03:12.56 ``Erik it ended much putzier than I woulda hoped, given the two preceding episodes :(
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03:39.37 brlcad ``Erik: it's not over, though -- they've openly said there will be at least one or probably two movies coming out afterwards
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04:09.33 ``Erik guess that'd explain the putz ending
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10:27.04 csanyipal howdy!
10:29.30 csanyipal I'm making a tutorial for my pupils, using the "Introduction to MGED" tutorial. I get an error message in MGED when doing: menu / Edit / Primitive Editor
10:29.52 csanyipal This is at page 49 in the tutorial.
10:30.05 csanyipal The error message is:
10:32.44 csanyipal extra switch pattern with no body, this may be due to a comment incorrectly placed outside of a switch body - see the "switch" documentation extra switch pattern with no body, this may be due to a comment incorrectly placed outside of a switch body - see the "switch" documentation while executing "switch -glob $fe_type {# bu_vls type arguments are %V, char arrays are %s.# XXX - %S is DEPRECATED [7.14]{%*[sSV]} { if $do_gui {en..."
10:32.44 csanyipal (procedure "esol_build_form" line 49) invoked from within "esol_build_form $id $w $esol_control($id,type) $vals 1 1 1" (procedure "esol_build_default_form" line 22) invoked from within "esol_build_default_form $id $w.sformF" (procedure "init_edit_solid" line 90) invoked from within "init_edit_solid id_0" invoked from within ".topid_0.#topid_0#menubar.#topid_0#menubar##id_0#menubar#edit invoke active" ("uplevel" body line 1) inv
10:32.45 csanyipal oked from within "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke active]" (procedure "cad_MenuInvoke" line 33) invoked from within "cad_MenuInvoke .topid_0.#topid_0#menubar.#topid_0#menubar##id_0#menubar#edit 1" (command bound to event)
10:32.59 csanyipal Is this a bug?
10:40.28 csanyipal I have BRL-CAD version 7.14.1 from SVN.
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12:38.22 brlcad csanyipal: yep, that's probably a very recent bug (probably specific to 7.14.1)
12:47.22 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33517 10/brlcad/trunk/src/proc-db/Makefile.am: there are no longer manpages in this dir to dist
12:50.27 csanyipal brlcad: Thank You!
12:52.18 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33518 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
12:52.18 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: bob fixed a recently introduced issue with the make command in mged where it was
12:52.18 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: creating objects using object keypoints instead of the view center. this was
12:52.18 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: reported by butler et al via sf bug #2279233 (mged "make" command changed).
12:54.14 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33519 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: related to the make command fixes, bob also tweaked the scale sizes for various primitives including grip, hyp, part, rcc, rec, rhc, rpc, tec, tgc, trc and all arbs
12:56.12 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33520 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
12:56.12 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: bob fixed the -u option to bot_dump so that the user can specify units. the
12:56.12 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: problem was simply that argument processing wasn't reading the unit value
12:56.12 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: (missing colon on getopt). this fixes the sf bug #2279400 (bot_dump -u option
12:56.14 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: problems) reported by butler et al on the modeling team.
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19:07.48 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33521 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libtclcad/tclcadAutoPath.c:
19:07.50 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: fix the long-standing load problems with finding itcl.tcl at runtime when we're
19:07.52 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: not installed yet. it turns out that incrTcl doesn't use the auto_path to look
19:07.54 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: for its own files, it uses an init script that only checks relative to
19:07.56 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: tcl_library and the ITCL_LIBRARY environment variable. we can't use the prior,
19:07.58 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: so we use the latter.
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19:20.33 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33522 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libtclcad/tclcadAutoPath.c:
19:20.33 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: add some protections so that the user can still manually override ITCL_LIBRARY
19:20.33 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: and ITK_LIBRARY and have the values respected. we do only respect it, though,
19:20.33 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: if we find an itcl.tcl and itk.tcl file there otherwise the automatic searching
19:20.34 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: still tries to find a match.
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22:08.20 csanyipal Hello! I try to use the Overlap Tool - brlcad version 7.14.1
22:09.49 csanyipal I can't get such an image as in the "Introduction to MGED" tutorial at page 53.
22:10.00 csanyipal How can I get this picture?
22:18.06 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33523 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
22:18.08 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: fixed a run-time failure where mged would fail to start up giving an error
22:18.10 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: saying it couldn't find the itcl.tcl file. the problem is due to incrTcl
22:18.12 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: ignoring the auto_path during Itcl_Init(), so it needed a little more
22:18.14 CIA-65 BRL-CAD: encouragement via setting ITCL_LIBRARY.
22:34.12 brlcad csanyipal: that picture was probably made by intersecting the two primitives and then just ray-tracing it
22:39.15 brlcad if you want a quick review of overlaps, you can run "rtcheck" on the command-line (rtcheck -s### so set the sample density)
22:39.28 brlcad rotate the view after you run the command to see the overlapping segments
22:39.54 brlcad the Overlap Tool basically does the same thing, be sure to rotate the view after running a check
22:47.04 csanyipal brlcad: Thank You!
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23:05.26 csanyipal So long!

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