IRC log for #brlcad on 20090506

00:00.19 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34424 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/ (Makefile.am primitives/tor/tor_mirror.c):
00:00.19 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: break out a tor_mirror() routine using the logic nearly identical to what is
00:00.19 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: happening now in rt_mirror() with the exception of using a plane_t instead of
00:00.19 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: pt+dir (so we still reconstruct pt+dir for now). first step towards a new
00:00.19 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: primitive rt_###_mirror() callback on all primitives that takes an
00:00.22 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: rt_db_internal and a plane to mirror across.
00:00.45 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34425 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/primitives/table.c: declare this new rt_##name##_mirror() interface for all primitives
00:00.59 ``Erik sits up
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00:01.12 ``Erik that's C macro abuse that I thought only I did
00:01.14 ``Erik :D
00:01.25 poolio argh. My external HD died and I fail at keeping two backups D:
00:03.14 ``Erik hey, brlcad, if I buy you a tb sata drive, will they shove it in your server?
00:04.33 brlcad last time I asked them, they said no but that was over a year ago
00:04.49 brlcad they sell them at like 4x markup :)
00:05.06 ``Erik heh, but you're colo, not service
00:05.23 ``Erik you actually own the piece of hardware in their rack, right?
00:06.33 ``Erik *shrug*
00:07.18 ``Erik 400 for a tb on a remote server... hrm, and I imagine they're not keen on 'dilbert' style disk packs?
00:07.32 ``Erik uh, sun d100 packages
00:08.04 ``Erik external disk packs
00:16.05 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34426 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/primitives/nmg/nmg_rt_isect.c: massive cleanup, ws, style, indent, dead code
00:30.00 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34427 10/brlcad/trunk/src/conv/patch/patch-g.c: massive cleanup, ws, style, indent, dead code, missing semicolons on macros
00:34.20 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34428 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/bigE.c: missing a few semis on macros, clean up comment wraps
00:38.29 brlcad another relevant example that's a working radial extension for fireforx (and is mildly interesting, but still suboptimal in many regards)
00:38.44 brlcad certainly more developed to production and customizability at least though
00:40.13 brlcad and specifically relevant: http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/3/Widgets/qtpiemenu
00:40.37 brlcad or http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq11-piemenu.html
00:42.09 brlcad and more boringly, how maya puts them to use: http://hci.deri.ie/%7Eksamp/pie.png
00:47.31 ``Erik hm, what about taskfox?
00:47.43 ``Erik any opinion on that endeavor?
00:49.07 ``Erik the qt ones look decent, the maya one looks bad
01:07.46 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34429 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libbn/plane.c: ws, style consistency, and major comment cleanup
01:09.04 brlcad maya's is surprisingly effective, having used it -- it basically eliminates the first level of a right-click context menu showing you the most common right there, then drops down menus for those subactions
01:09.14 brlcad just looks like hell, but probably the most used outside of gaming
01:10.30 brlcad taskfox is a different beast altogether -- it's fantastic stuff and already part of IEO
01:11.43 brlcad it's basically an application-specific version of 'quicksilver' for mac os x, I think they were the first to "make it look good"
01:14.08 brlcad if ralith got nothing more than the launcher working for registered commands with the look n' feel cleaned up, keybindings working, overlay working, shortcuts working, and gui conversion .. that's be .. impressive :)
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02:58.01 Mike111 hi all
02:59.54 madant hi Mike111
03:00.13 Mike111 hi madant
03:01.41 Mike111 I am unable to install 7.14.6 on Debian Lenny, P6 (32bit). Sean advised to use this channel for help.
04:59.59 brlcad Mike111: thanks for stopping by -- best suggestion at this point is to try a clean build step-by-step and we can then make changes from a known state
05:00.23 brlcad start by checking out the SVN sources, run this:
05:00.26 brlcad ~cadsvn
05:00.26 ibot To obtain BRL-CAD from Subversion: svn checkout https://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk brlcad
05:01.09 brlcad after that, run: sh autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-all && make
05:01.30 brlcad then if we hit the link error again, we can try some edits
05:01.30 Mike111 thanks, brlcad
05:02.46 Mike111 I'm unable to this now, maybe in an hour. How long will you be here?
05:02.47 brlcad save a transcript of your console to a file using your terminal's history or via the 'script' command
05:02.58 madant we are always here :)
05:03.28 Mike111 great. Speak soon.
05:03.30 brlcad someone is always here and even if nobody responds, you can post your status/question/nextstep/etc and someone eventually will
05:04.05 brlcad like how I just answered you two hours after your statement -- you just stay idle and wait
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07:40.26 mafm hi
07:47.10 pacman87 good morning
07:48.24 pacman87 is currently in the middle of coding tetris in assembly for the 6811
07:50.26 pacman87 anyone know a good way to fit a capital N into a 3x5 pixel font?
07:50.59 archivist 3x5!!! too small
07:51.19 pacman87 it's for a LCD display with a rather large pixel pitch
07:51.26 archivist 5x7 is bad enough
07:51.39 pacman87 i only have so much room
07:51.46 pacman87 128x64 pixels
07:52.23 pacman87 my N is currently all 5, middle 3, all 5 for the columns
07:53.48 archivist I spent many hours making charsets 20 years ago
07:54.19 pacman87 i don't really like my K either
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11:48.51 ``Erik 6811, awesome, I did some asm and hw work on 6811 and 6812 back in college :)
11:49.11 ``Erik 8x8 is the true character space :( pheer c64
11:49.37 pacman87 i've got a 6811 and a 6812 sitting on my desk atm
11:49.45 ``Erik um, looking up screenshots of old atari and nintendo games might help with figuring out fonts?
11:49.59 pacman87 program the 6811 EEPROM through the 6812
11:50.06 ``Erik heheh
11:50.30 ``Erik we had a grab bag of 6811's in my 'digital logic' class, but hte books were all for 6812
11:50.38 ``Erik so we kept finding the minor gotchas
11:51.21 ``Erik nice enough chip, reminded my of my 6502 hacking days :)
11:52.28 ``Erik brlcad: the maya ss makes me think that position and layout is irregular... like it flies the flag to memorization and muscle memory
12:03.52 archivist did a report 6800 v 6502 v 6502 for some maths, 2 meg 6502 won :)
12:04.14 archivist one of those should be Z80
12:04.58 archivist Z80 wastes so much time shuffling via the A reg
12:08.48 d-lo brlcad: 'Practical Subversion' book... you trying to say sumthin?! =D
12:17.26 brlcad d-lo: nope, you were just talking about getting to it soon -- didn't know if you knew that I had that
12:17.29 brlcad it covers the libs
12:17.47 d-lo I figured, just j/k 'round.
12:18.01 d-lo started paging through it since it was on my desk.
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12:58.30 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34430 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/primitives/mirror.c: begin migration towards using the rt_*_mirror() interface, setting up the mirror plane equation needed by the primitive. stubbed in for the moment until a bug is fixed (likely introduced during r34263 refactoring)
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13:58.02 d-lo brlcad: Build looks like it is failing on mirror.c
13:58.50 d-lo -> " *** No rule to make target `mirror.c', needed by `mirror.lo'. Stop. "
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14:15.42 ``Erik make distclean might be the lynchpin for ya
14:18.42 brlcad yeah, you've not updated in a while (tsk tsk)
14:26.02 ``Erik heh
14:42.55 d-lo it was building fine *till* i updated :P
14:46.35 d-lo and I update daily thankyouveddymuch!
14:50.06 d-lo ``Erik: Is the dude fixn yer house?
14:51.13 d-lo make distclean ftw.
14:52.30 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34431 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: I apparently broke mirroring a few days ago while refactoring, must fix before release.
14:55.00 brlcad hm, that doesn't sound right -- mirror.c was moved on 2009-04-13
14:55.16 brlcad probably just didn't rebuild librt since then
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17:58.32 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34432 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: thought this was already the case, but maybe not.. the dbconcat/concat command no longer requires an affix, allowing it to default to behave as if '/' was specified if no prefix/suffix is provided.
18:05.09 starseeker ah - there they are. Open Inventor input routines appear to be in SoInput and SoDB
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19:15.39 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34433 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/scale_ell.c:
19:15.39 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: add comments about how scale_ell seems to be a bad direction to go in as it's
19:15.39 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: specific to a primitive's internal structure (no command should need to know the
19:15.39 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: internal structure of any primitive) and specific to a scaling operation. all
19:15.39 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: objects already define a matrix transformation callback that implements this
19:15.42 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: same logic.
19:21.53 d-lo Ralith: How goes the GUI? Done yet?
19:22.01 brlcad hehe
20:29.16 ``Erik wow, I can't believe how bad this movie is :( "big trouble in little china"
20:29.26 ``Erik I thought this was cool in the 80's
20:31.44 brlcad it was cool .. in the 80's
20:31.56 brlcad so were mc hammer pants
20:32.22 brlcad shuffles off sideways saying "you can't touch this!"
20:33.00 ``Erik hahaha
20:33.17 ``Erik shut up, I had parachute pants in the 80's
20:33.18 ``Erik :D
20:33.47 ``Erik it was a... special time
20:35.00 ``Erik honestly cannot see brlcad doing that irl, thinks he's too meek O.o
20:35.34 brlcad i actually used to be able to (somewhat, albeit still geekishly), but yeah .. probably not :)
20:35.57 ``Erik have you done iphone dev?
20:36.41 brlcad read through much of the docs, have/had the account, and written up some code for it
20:36.54 brlcad but nothing noteworthy, just checking it out
20:37.27 ``Erik I talked to a friend last night who's an ueber coordinator, he has assembled a crew to write a game and is trying to pin me down as the code monkey, I'm under the impression that it's a pretty simple cocoa/objc dealie, just lookin' for confirmation (or gotchas)
20:38.07 brlcad wow.. lotus extrema does 0->60 in 2.8s
20:38.24 ``Erik ow, is that electric?
20:38.48 ``Erik m3 does 0-20000 real fast ;) *Duck*
20:38.55 ``Erik $20,000 that is
20:38.59 brlcad nope, just put a beast engine in
20:39.08 brlcad http://www.teamspeed.com/forums/lotus/17242-uk-garage-presents-lotus-extrema.html
20:39.19 ``Erik you're using what, a 220 hp toyota 4cyl?
20:39.42 ``Erik no, 190hp? euro spec is 130hp?
20:39.55 brlcad around 190 iirc
20:40.13 ``Erik na?
20:41.01 ``Erik ok... white boy shoots gun striaght up, bad "pew pew" sound effects, rock comes down and knocks him out.... effin' retarded
20:41.12 ``Erik <-- tries not to do the mc hammer shuffle
20:41.59 ``Erik (that they can fit a 'vettes v8 "up-rated" engine in an elise is disturbing)
20:43.36 ``Erik only $100k, though
20:44.09 brlcad yeah, that had to be a feat in itself
20:45.55 ``Erik there was, iirc, a camaro model that could do 0-60 in 2.8
20:46.06 ``Erik was pushing over 1k bhp on the flywheel, though
20:46.35 ``Erik that low end performance screams electric to me :)
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21:51.55 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34434 10/brlcad/trunk/BUGS:
21:51.55 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: finally was able to reproduce john's error message about tab-completion giving a
21:51.55 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: bind error. seems as though it only sometimes happens, even for -c mode,
21:51.55 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: depending on whether the currently running mged finds tcl resources? either
21:51.55 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: way, it does exist... :)
22:54.41 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34435 10/brlcad/trunk/BUGS: Hmm - Sean spotted where nirt doesn't parse the -e option very well in MGED - space between -e and quote character fails
22:57.10 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34436 10/brlcad/trunk/ (NEWS src/librt/primitives/pipe/pipe.c): Fix bug where raytracing of pipe was crashing if duplicate hit points showed up - incorrect decrementing of *nh was the problem.
22:57.44 starseeker does little happy dance
23:01.59 Ralith d-lo: well, it was, but then I decided to rewrite it in FORTRAN
23:09.15 ``Erik not cobol?
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