IRC log for #brlcad on 20090122

00:00.17 ``Erik yes, we know what rt looks like O.o it's in SVN
00:00.28 IriX64 sure is :)
00:01.16 IriX64 thank God he said "clipboard" and not 9mm :)
00:03.07 ``Erik only punkass "gansta" wannabes carry 9's anymore, a .40 or 10mm is where it's at, yo
00:03.10 ``Erik :D
00:04.33 IriX64 http://rafb.net/p/T7SLwE60.html <--- this is where i learn from mostly ;)
00:05.28 IriX64 after all the code *is the documentation
00:07.18 ``Erik bu.h would be a good commented index of all that crap (and we know what src/libbu looks like)
00:07.53 IriX64 thanks, i look at a lot of stuff, like the style you guys have
00:08.00 IriX64 its consistent
00:08.53 IriX64 if i try a diff to my brlcad2 svn thing, do the old diffs stay?
00:11.18 IriX64 remebering of course "my system is strange" :)
00:15.40 IriX64 remeber when i started with 7.6.2? i still can say i've never had so much fun :)
00:17.44 IriX64 he, all because i wanted to test automake on a makefile.am :)
00:17.49 IriX64 heh even
00:25.18 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33577 10/brlcad/trunk/ (TODO include/bu.h):
00:25.18 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: bitv shifting is now 'optimized' as in no longer calculated at run-time. since
00:25.18 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: bitv_t doesn't change at compile time and works equally well for large bit
00:25.18 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: vectors (actually a little faster if 'long' is a signficantly faster integer
00:25.18 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: type than 'long long' even on a 64-bit platform). that makes us ready to
00:25.21 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: release if testing goes well. still need a mega-mged test script to make sure
00:25.23 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: libged integration is good.
00:27.26 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33578 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: given the libged integration, we do need to write mged test script to exhaustively exercise all commands before doing a release.
00:29.56 ``Erik "svn diff > version.patch" and then manually review it
00:31.54 IriX64 thanks man
00:33.53 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33579 10/brlcad/trunk/BUGS:
00:33.53 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: victor provided a reproducible case where xpush blows steaming chunks and fails
00:33.53 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: miserably to do its job leaving the db in a destroyed state. looks like it is
00:33.53 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: stopping halfway through the task but gives no indication that anything goes
00:33.54 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: wrong.
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00:38.02 ``Erik neato
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00:58.53 *** topic/#brlcad is BRL-CAD Open Source Solid Modeling || http://brlcad.org || http://sf.net/projects/brlcad || GSoC 2008 Highlight: new prototype gui, check it out! || Source Release 7.14.0 is now posted (20081108)
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01:10.33 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.com/mario.dulisse2/frame.png :)
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01:23.43 ``Erik grats on the masters, twingy
01:24.34 ``Erik neato, more tkhtml breakage
01:26.28 Twingy I didn't get a masters
01:30.38 ``Erik oh, I heard you did
01:30.53 ``Erik guess the grapevine twisted the message :) you were going for a masters at gatech, right?
01:32.12 Twingy yes, I stopped that over a year ago
01:32.20 ``Erik heh
01:32.22 Twingy I'm pursuing a masters in computer engineering now
01:32.42 ``Erik ah, cool
01:36.39 mafm night
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04:05.43 yukonbob hello, cadheads
05:12.52 Dr_Phreakenstein hello, yukonbob
05:13.19 Dr_Phreakenstein (sorry, got some serious lag here ;) )
05:17.09 brlcad howdy yukonbob
05:44.58 yukonbob hey Dr_Phreakenstein
05:45.04 yukonbob brlcad: long time, no chat :)
05:48.26 brlcad indeed!
06:02.45 yukonbob what's happening, my Internet friend?
06:03.13 yukonbob (is capatalizing Internet considered Bad Form these days? I think it's passe')
06:03.15 yukonbob *internet
06:04.22 brlcad nah
06:04.40 brlcad going pretty good
06:04.50 brlcad lot of irons in the fire, but made some progress today
06:05.33 yukonbob nice...
06:05.49 yukonbob interesting news to talk about?
06:06.05 yukonbob is getting into cmake (after owning the book for almost a year)
06:06.17 yukonbob is also getting into cross compiling (mingw)
06:06.27 yukonbob ...and more hardcore Tcl...
06:06.34 brlcad cool
06:07.07 yukonbob ...and looking forward to getting the lastest ITcl/ITk (branded "ng") running so he can get over this no-brl-cad drought...
06:07.15 brlcad biggest news is probably that libged is coming to completion, getting integrated with mged now, and will soon hopefully provoke the merging of mged and archer
06:07.20 yukonbob I don't know when the last time I had it installed was :P
06:07.34 yukonbob ah, I miss mged
06:08.41 yukonbob once I finally get it installed, I want to a) start modelling again (speedos) b) delve into programming against librt
06:09.05 yukonbob I'll be picking your brain...
06:09.54 yukonbob actually has some only-secondarily related-to-brl-cad questions for you, but I'll collect some info and formulate good questions before I start wasting time...
06:10.31 brlcad looks forward to it
06:10.37 yukonbob :)
06:11.10 yukonbob you have any news re: itcl/itk ng? I've heard that they pass all the test suites, but I haven't tried building for quite a few weeks...
06:11.18 yukonbob what's the tree use?
06:11.21 brlcad librt is easy .. since you're so interested in tcl, you might be more keen on mged/archer enhancements
06:11.42 brlcad I tried it about 6-8 weeks ago
06:11.46 brlcad and it failed miserably
06:11.47 yukonbob success?
06:11.48 yukonbob ha
06:11.50 yukonbob *ah
06:11.51 yukonbob :P
06:11.56 yukonbob fsck
06:12.18 yukonbob itcl/itk are still aboslutely required though, correct?
06:12.19 brlcad it's changed a fair bit since then, worth another try
06:12.24 brlcad absolutely, yes
06:12.42 brlcad there's more than 100k lines of itcl/itk code
06:12.44 yukonbob ya -- test scores have gone up, which is promising ... I monitor the wiki page occasionally ....
06:12.55 brlcad monitors the trackers
06:13.01 yukonbob itcl is certainly a blessing and a curse...
06:13.09 yukonbob ?trackers
06:13.16 brlcad the sf trackers
06:13.19 yukonbob ah
06:13.31 brlcad all bug reports, feature requests, support requests, patches
06:13.39 yukonbob ya
06:13.51 brlcad easier to see when someone is actually busy
06:14.01 brlcad as opposed to just being all talk
06:14.06 brlcad on the lists
06:14.07 yukonbob true, true.
06:15.04 yukonbob goes to see latest news/details on itcl/itk, setup test env...
06:20.21 PrezKennedyIII i wish i could go on just a couple hours of sleep like brlcad can :(
06:20.32 PrezKennedyIII waves good night
06:20.39 brlcad it's easier the more you do it
06:20.55 brlcad plenty of time to sleep when you're dead
06:20.59 PrezKennedyIII ive tried... it doesn't work for me
06:21.04 PrezKennedyIII i need about 6-8 hours
06:21.09 brlcad one/two time tries don't do jack
06:21.12 brlcad has to be habitual
06:21.32 PrezKennedyIII ive tried for years and i finally gave up
06:21.50 PrezKennedyIII i need at least 6, or the day absolutely sucks
06:22.09 brlcad 4 is about the minimum sustainable for most
06:22.38 PrezKennedyIII besides, youll be dead sooner if you dont get enough sleep :p
06:22.42 PrezKennedyIII catch 22 ;)
06:22.47 brlcad nah, old wives tale
06:23.09 brlcad there've been plenty of studies that have shown it's sustainable
06:23.15 louipc depends on what you do to your body I suppose
06:23.27 brlcad it's just not something you can jump into though
06:24.05 brlcad it's like cold weather or distance running or listening to loud music
06:24.13 brlcad your body adjusts over time
06:24.51 PrezKennedyIII and then you can never hear the same, your knees get damaged, and you catch pneumonia
06:24.54 PrezKennedyIII :D
06:24.55 louipc I did 4hrs a night for about 2yrs... but I'd sleep everywhere... on the bus, waiting in line, at lunch break, ...
06:25.12 PrezKennedyIII gnight all
06:25.18 louipc gnite
06:25.46 PrezKennedyIII oh yeah, brlcad... my dad is trying that whole 4 hour thing and i dont think its workin for him either
06:25.55 PrezKennedyIII he falls asleep playing games
06:25.58 brlcad particularly liked the discovery episode that put a northern indian/eskimo against someone from new england, testing their cold weather extremes
06:26.14 louipc hah
06:26.24 brlcad hooked them both up to instruments in a closed room and dropped the temperature fast to measure their responses
06:26.38 brlcad (in their skivies only)
06:26.57 brlcad pretty interesting to see the response graphs over time
06:28.13 brlcad both could withstand some pretty substantial extreme colds before getting near internal organ danger temps, but the eskimo was noticably unaffected nor uncomfortable until it was near that extreme
06:29.06 louipc so he can keep on trucking potentially to safety eh?
06:29.11 brlcad the other dude was mostly just 'miserable' and whiny much longer
06:30.01 yukonbob starts itcl build attempt.
06:30.03 brlcad the indian could withstand a colder temp, but it wasn't nearly as drastic as their first measure of asking them to say when they "felt cold"
06:30.05 yukonbob runs into first failure...
06:31.02 brlcad you have to have a recent tcl/tk too
06:31.08 yukonbob 8.5.6
06:31.23 yukonbob _has_ been working, quietly, in his lab here ;)
06:42.49 yukonbob is stalled at this hour...
06:43.08 yukonbob brlcad: if it's agreeable to you, I've got some general questions that I'll pose in the future...
06:43.29 yukonbob more shared-lib/libtool/auto*-fu
06:44.00 yukonbob prepares to hit hay --- is not on 4h sleep sched yet ;)
06:53.21 brlcad heh
07:02.56 brlcad wanders off to his car for a cruise
08:41.20 brlcad wanders into the darkness
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12:34.07 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03d_rossberg * r33580 10/brlcad/trunk/include/config_win.h:
12:34.07 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: some declarations for signal handling
12:34.07 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: Notice: Signals are poorly supported by MS Windows. This o.s. has its own methods to do the job. Using signals means to target a Unix o.s..
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12:38.38 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03d_rossberg * r33581 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc/Dll/BrlcadCore.def: added one more function to export
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14:20.58 mafm hi
14:23.58 brlcad howdy
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15:08.35 yukonbob brlcad: speaking of 4h sleeping schedules, are you a coffee (or tea, jolt, etc) drinker?
15:15.24 ``Erik coffee made with bawls, pheer
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16:14.25 brlcad yukonbob: I go through phases, but yeah sure
16:15.08 brlcad usually a couple weeks on, few weeks off, so I never get used to it (and then it also usually does its job very well if I need it)
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20:21.52 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * r33582 10/brlcad/trunk/src/adrt/ (4 files in 2 dirs): move utilization of vmath.h
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20:54.36 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33583 10/brlcad/trunk/ (4 files in 3 dirs): (log message trimmed)
20:54.36 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: daniel makes a good point about signals on windows. instead of making the code
20:54.36 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: specific to signals, make the api attempt to suspend interruptions (with various
20:54.36 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: signals being one form of an interrupt). on mac and windows, this might also
20:54.36 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: include buffering various gui events (like the close button) that may have
20:54.38 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: independent callbacks. hide the two new bu_*_signal() routines as an
20:54.40 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: implementation detail for now since it's not readily needed anywhere else and
20:56.41 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33584 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libbu/signal.c: rename prep
21:00.22 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33585 10/brlcad/trunk/ (6 files in 3 dirs): rename signal.c to interrupt.c
21:03.38 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33586 10/brlcad/trunk/src/mged/ (chgview.c cmd.c facedef.c rtif.c track.c utility1.c): s/interupts/interrupts/g typo
21:10.12 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r33587 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO:
21:10.12 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: should refactor mged's signal handling so that any long-running command can be
21:10.12 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: interrupted safely. as it is, with the sig2/sig3 interrupt handler using
21:10.12 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: longjmp's, just about any librt call might leave the dbip in a bad state.
21:13.53 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * r33588 10/brlcad/trunk/src/adrt/libutil/ (Makefile.am camera.c camera.h umath.c umath.h): eliminate umath and camera
21:14.15 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * r33589 10/brlcad/trunk/src/adrt/ (25 files in 5 dirs): use vmath where possible
21:56.03 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * r33590 10/brlcad/trunk/ (7 files in 5 dirs): move mersenne twister random number generator from ADRT's libutil to libbn
21:58.01 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * r33591 10/brlcad/trunk/ (9 files in 8 dirs): eliminate src/adrt/libutil and src/adrt/libcommon
22:06.18 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * r33592 10/brlcad/trunk/configure.ac: src/adrt/libcommon is GONE, man
22:13.40 kanzure I have a set of points that represent a path that I'd like to model. These points would be, say, used to guide a drill bit. Is there a way for me to do this easily via BRLCAD?
22:14.00 kanzure Previously I was attempting to plot tubing using those coords, but there were one too many things going wrong that I haven't been able to track down.
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23:37.06 kanzure Hey elite01.
23:37.38 elite01 yo kanzure :D
23:37.41 elite01 waves
23:37.52 kanzure waves back.
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