IRC log for #brlcad on 20090128

00:56.32 mafm night
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03:06.45 yukonbob evening cadheads
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04:21.40 brlcad evening yukonbob
04:46.35 yukonbob what's happening, 20h boy?
04:48.09 yukonbob Hey -- we have an 'atom' primitive, don't we?
04:48.24 yukonbob fuckinggooglesit.
04:52.00 brlcad 20h?
04:52.34 brlcad an atom primitive? there's a 'particle' primitive, otherwise you'd probably be best off using spheres
04:53.23 yukonbob 20h wakefullness
04:53.43 yukonbob particle is what I was thinking of... what are it's applications?
04:53.43 brlcad there is a 'molecule' procedural geometry database generator that will create a model from Adams format
04:53.48 brlcad ah, yup
04:54.31 brlcad particle is more of a 'pill' primitive where you have two spheres connected via a tangent cylinder
04:55.09 brlcad basically a pipe with rounded ends and you can independently adjust the radius of both ends
04:56.05 yukonbob so, a sort of bar bell?
04:57.59 brlcad no, not really
04:58.11 brlcad if you want that, the 'molecule' procdb is more appropriate
04:58.21 brlcad more like a pill
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04:59.02 yukonbob what prompted it's creation -- seems like a strange primitive, or are there patterns that often call for it?
05:00.04 brlcad I forget exactly what prompted it
05:00.04 yukonbob ah... /me is imagining now...
05:00.24 brlcad it's a bastard primitive, I think it should go away when it could be replaced with something more general
05:00.24 yukonbob it really is shaped like an aspirin pill, or a 'Go' playing piece... right?
05:00.56 brlcad http://brlcad.org/tmp/primitives/part.png
05:01.11 brlcad change the two radii, the shape changes
05:01.27 brlcad make them equal, looks like a pill
05:01.42 brlcad otherwise just a cylinder with rounded edges
05:02.40 yukonbob sees.
05:02.52 yukonbob a candidate for a simple macro, it seems to me...
05:03.08 yukonbob truncated cone + couple half spheres
05:03.31 yukonbob (or cylinder + half spheres)
05:04.28 brlcad or whole spheres, just union them
05:04.48 brlcad a cylinder is a truncated cone
05:05.06 brlcad rcc is a tgc (under the hood)
05:05.24 yukonbob nods (makes sense)
05:06.03 yukonbob any tricks w/ itcl/itk and tcl 8.5 that you can recall since 8.5 became standard?
05:06.20 yukonbob s/tricks/build tricks/
05:06.45 yukonbob or did it pretty much Just Work
05:15.42 brlcad I recall it just working, though had to use the latest of both
05:16.32 yukonbob ok... fair enough... I'm going to work on getting 8.5.6 + itcl 3.3 working on my box here, then proceed from there...
05:16.43 yukonbob itcl4 will be a Future Project
05:17.52 yukonbob heh... /me is imagining himself in the third person as irix64
05:18.06 yukonbob who want to see a screenshot of my running compiler?
05:20.18 Ralith :P
05:20.29 yukonbob Ralith: is that a "no"?
05:22.35 Ralith hehe
05:22.39 Ralith of course not!
05:24.07 yukonbob heh... I'll send irix an email to post a png for you...
05:26.38 yukonbob nice... here's an old pic I sent as a respose to Irix posting all this "compiler screen shots" and fscking havoc renders.
05:26.54 yukonbob http://www.methodlogic.net/flat/gfx/brlcad.gif
05:27.49 louipc yukonbob: hahhhha
05:29.01 Ralith yukonbob: what WM is that?
05:29.12 yukonbob probably wmii.
05:29.20 yukonbob I've since moved even more primitive... dwm
05:29.59 louipc why'd you switch?
05:30.45 yukonbob it's a bit hazy -- I think there were some issues w/ wmii and xinerama at some point, then I just switched to dwm (and two displays) and never switched back...
05:31.36 yukonbob the "biggest" feature of wmii (over dwm) is probably their plan9 protocol, like procfs to the wm... which I found confusing and hardly used... so...
05:31.37 louipc ah
05:32.35 Ralith likes xmonad
05:32.38 yukonbob dwm is a single, simple exectuable w/ virtual workspaces and a few org methods (ie: tiling, overlapping, etc) for windows... it works, and that's it.
05:32.48 Ralith very powerful, flexible, lightweight
05:32.54 Ralith with good multi-display support, too, so I hear.
05:32.56 Ralith just has the one
05:33.10 Ralith of course, the config file is in haskell, but it's not that hard to hack.
05:33.24 yukonbob dwm != flexible, per se. No config. Just #defines in source.
05:35.43 Ralith that doesn't sound like much fun.
05:36.33 louipc so every user needs their own executable for their own preferences hah
05:37.00 Ralith that would be problematic.
05:37.15 yukonbob not that many tuneables though... it's not built for chrome.
05:37.16 louipc could be
05:37.34 Ralith yukonbob: give xmonad a try sometime ^^
05:37.40 Ralith it's shiny.
05:37.45 yukonbob heh
05:37.50 yukonbob I'll keep it in mind..
05:37.55 louipc xmonad is tiling + floating yeah?
05:38.13 Ralith it's really a tiling wm, but with support for making windows floating if necessary
05:38.24 Ralith so things like modal dialogs don't get annoying
05:38.31 Ralith file selectors, etc
05:38.37 louipc I mean to try some of these, but I'm content with openbox so there's no motivation
05:38.48 Ralith tiling wms are great
05:38.54 Ralith so much more efficient
05:39.00 louipc how so?
05:39.14 Ralith no wasted screen space
05:39.19 Ralith no wasted time rearranging things
05:39.29 Ralith no wasted time reaching for the mouse to perform basic actions
05:40.44 louipc ah. I don't have much window action really
05:41.08 louipc just a few terms and screen pretty much :D
05:41.19 Ralith having a keyboard driven design from the ground up is a big benefit, though
05:41.32 Ralith and you'd be surprised how nice it is to have things not overlap
05:41.47 yukonbob ^---is true, and unappreciated until tried.
05:41.54 Ralith indeed.
05:42.04 Ralith I used to think it was a horrible idea
05:42.08 louipc yeah that is true
05:42.14 Ralith then I got into haskell and decided to give xmonad a go just because
05:42.19 Ralith never looked back
08:01.22 CIA-32 BRL-CAD: 03d_rossberg * r33612 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/CMakeLists.txt: added some files to be in sync with Makefile.am
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11:25.24 d-lo ``Erik or brlcad : do you have paulettes extention #?
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13:41.54 d-lo nuthin eh?
13:42.26 d-lo And here I thought PA would be used to snow. I have never seen roads this bad after 3 inches of snow + 1 inch of ice....
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13:49.38 ``Erik heh, yeah, I chickened out and am hiding from the weather today
13:49.59 ``Erik I know 6339 rings on paulettes phone, but that's the BC's #
13:57.57 d-lo found Paulette's. its 6304.... 4 more than ed's makes it easy
13:58.36 d-lo I did a test run of thr roads and ran up to the local gas'n'go place. Roads are terrible. Its shocking really.
14:39.41 starseeker will be trying in about an hour or so
14:39.58 starseeker they must be working on them
14:45.19 d-lo Bah... they had all night to work on em. Its not like this 'storm' was a surprise ;)
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14:59.08 ``Erik is still hearing trucks scraping O.o
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15:05.22 carcarcdr Hi !
15:06.30 carcarcdr I have some questions about brlcad ...
15:06.59 d-lo saw a plow.... about 1/2 away :/
15:07.12 d-lo carcarcdr: Howdy! I'll answer any questions I can.
15:07.22 d-lo saw a plow.... about 1/2 mile away :/
15:10.38 carcarcdr thank you so much d-lo ...
15:11.07 carcarcdr the question is I'm evaluating brlcad against Catia and NX6 for a research project ...
15:11.42 carcarcdr the fact is that I didn't find any spline manipulation tool ... tangencies ... etc ...
15:13.07 carcarcdr Know thats CSL tool but it seems too low level for my project isn't it ?
15:21.49 d-lo Hrm, perhaps. the guy named brlcad in this channel can answer those questions to a higher degree of techincality, but as of right now, we do not have spline capability finished.
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16:11.49 starseeker whew. The Hotchkiss docs require a lot more work per page than the Mark VIII did
17:24.47 ``Erik huh, two plows just came through my cul de sac
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22:02.56 brlcad bah, wusses.. :)
22:03.08 starseeker came in
22:03.34 starseeker which doesn't necessarily invalid the point, granted...
22:03.40 brlcad the streets to get out of the city and through aberdeen were absolutely aweful yet I managed to make it in with my little ice buggy
22:04.00 starseeker I think it's a reward/risk calculation
22:04.06 brlcad yeah
22:04.10 brlcad hence, wusses :)
22:05.32 brlcad shame, carcarcdr left
22:09.36 starseeker <snort>
22:16.21 CIA-32 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r33613 10/brlcad/trunk/regress/mged_test.sh: Add run command so mged regression actually does something
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