IRC log for #brlcad on 20090519

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00:42.29 starseeker can't help thinking something doesn't look right about these bounding boxes... http://bzflag.bz/~starseeker/pipe_bb.png
01:10.50 starseeker apparently those are marked "Leaf"
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02:11.18 starseeker brlcad: I'm thinking this bounding box is waaaay to large for the purpose of subdividing a spherical nurbs surface: http://bzflag.bz/~starseeker/sphere_bb_edge.png
02:49.25 starseeker ponders the criteria of surface flatness and wonders how the normals can satisfy it when the bounding boxes are so large...
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02:56.04 starseeker is the plotting messed up?
02:56.05 starseeker hmm
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13:28.35 brlcad tried to pull him away
13:28.51 brlcad starseeker: yeah, I'm not sure I believe that plotting
13:29.29 *** join/#brlcad hippieindamakin8 (n=hippiein@202.3.77.38)
13:29.34 brlcad the boxes do overlap, and with that much curvature, I'm sure there are a lot of them, but they shouldn't be that many/big
13:29.57 brlcad howdy hippieindamakin8 !
13:30.12 hippieindamakin8 hey brlcad
13:30.13 brlcad any progress on the bot to nmg conversion?
13:30.31 brlcad how're classes?
13:30.34 hippieindamakin8 brlcad, not yet actually should be done in a couple of days.
13:30.39 brlcad cool
13:31.06 hippieindamakin8 brlcad, havent registered for summer school. i took up a summer job
13:31.23 brlcad anything technical/interesting?
13:32.46 hippieindamakin8 tools to analyse the rail tracks for the indian railways(hardware) + a handheld to analyze the data on and print it out on a line printer
13:33.11 brlcad what are they analyzing?
13:33.28 hippieindamakin8 analyzing the defects of the tracks
13:33.45 brlcad cad models? :)
13:34.02 hippieindamakin8 :P vibration analysis.
13:34.33 hippieindamakin8 and then probably we ll be using a beagleboard and a screen to develop a handheld
13:35.37 hippieindamakin8 apart from that a literature study at the university with a prof on the geometric coresets and their applications
13:35.53 brlcad coresets?
13:36.34 _clock_ corsets?
13:37.05 hippieindamakin8 coresets are this geometric approximations we work on . they are the subsets of the actual sets with an /epsilon error
13:37.16 brlcad eh?
13:38.18 brlcad you've still not said what that means :)
13:38.33 brlcad .. coresets are geometric approximations (of what?)
13:38.35 hippieindamakin8 suppose we have a clustering problem, and the point set is very huge, now we develop a coreset which is an approximation of the point set and then using this coreset we obtain we get
13:39.16 hippieindamakin8 *we obtain this new point set to work on to reduce the computational costs
13:39.44 brlcad ah okay
13:39.47 hippieindamakin8 coresets in this case is an approximate point set the geometric approximations of the point sets
13:40.00 hippieindamakin8 of the actual point sets.
13:40.56 hippieindamakin8 but the end of it all its an approximate solution. :)
13:42.10 hippieindamakin8 brlcad, i ll just put the patch in soon.
13:42.35 brlcad no rush, was just wondering if you were still working on it or stuck on some problem or busy, etc :)
13:42.39 brlcad hadn't seen you in a while
13:43.36 hippieindamakin8 yeah :) i did actually get stuck implementing the read
13:43.53 hippieindamakin8 but i ll just go through the src code and get back to you.
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14:00.01 alvaro1 make > &a ................?
14:05.37 alvaro1 please can somebody help me to find the error? http://fpaste.org/paste/12285
14:07.19 ``Erik hm, looks like you told it to build tcl but use the system tk, make "make distclean" and "./configure --enable-all"
14:08.01 alvaro1 what is tk8.5 ?
14:08.13 alvaro1 ltk8.5
14:08.29 ``Erik the gui toolkit for tcl 8.5, check out http://tcl.tk for more info
14:09.15 alvaro1 what goes first?, make distclean or ./configure --enable-all
14:09.32 ``Erik "make distclean && ./configure --enable-all && make"
14:12.09 alvaro1 configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in misc ./misc
14:13.13 brlcad after distclean, you have to "sh autogen.sh"
14:13.23 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34550 10/brlcad/trunk/include/opennurbs_ext.h: reorganize trace defines in opennurbs (convenience only)
14:13.47 alvaro1 make distclean
14:13.56 brlcad then sh autogen.sh
14:13.58 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34551 10/brlcad/trunk/include/opennurbs_ext.h: whoops - that's TRACE2
14:14.04 brlcad then ./configure --enable-all
14:14.50 alvaro1 [root@alvaro-edicta-host brlcad-7.14.6]# make distclean
14:14.50 alvaro1 make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.
14:15.22 brlcad once you run it, you can't run it again
14:15.34 alvaro1 nice point
14:15.48 brlcad it blows away all makefiles
14:15.56 brlcad so you can "start fresh"
14:16.14 alvaro1 fresh is my second name!
14:23.06 brlcad "alvaro fresh"
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15:09.55 ``Erik oh, woops, fergot about having to autoreconf O:-)
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15:31.23 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r34552 10/brlcad/trunk/ (22 files in 6 dirs): Add support for editing hyperboloids to libged and Archer.
17:24.07 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34553 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/CMakeLists.txt: new files scale_eto.c and scale_hyp.c added
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18:56.33 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34554 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/opennurbs_ext.cpp:
18:56.34 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: Turn off box growing in the NURBS for now - plotting the bounding boxes reveals
18:56.34 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: that the scaling factors are causing the sizes to go waaaay out of line. The
18:56.34 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: visual artifacts being seen appear to be the result of bounding box intersection
18:56.34 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: errors - parent bounding boxes are found, but the children do not intersect
18:56.36 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: properly. Appears to be related to opennurbs_ext.h:243 in some way. Growing
18:56.38 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: the bounding boxes just 'hides' the problem.
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19:30.03 Defcon- !seen maloeran
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20:04.51 brlcad ~seen maloeran
20:04.52 ibot maloeran <n=maloeran@glvortex.net> was last seen on IRC in channel #brlcad, 48d 7h 58m 41s ago, saying: 'Ahah, neat article mafm'.
20:15.22 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34555 10/brlcad/tags/rel-7-14-8/ (db/ misc/pkgconfig/ src/conv/ src/rt/): ignore generated files
20:15.52 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34556 10/brlcad/trunk/db/: ignore goliath.g
20:27.01 Defcon- mkay..
20:27.03 ``Erik mal was on efnet yesterday
20:27.06 Defcon- tnx brlcad
20:27.09 Defcon- efnet ?
20:27.11 Defcon- #c ?
20:27.30 ``Erik uhm, I saw him in, uh, #siggraph
20:28.06 ``Erik he's on now, but idle 21.5 hours
20:29.19 Defcon- ty
20:33.36 starseeker hm. well, the bound box check seems legit... next do the bounding boxes really enclose what they say they do...
20:38.20 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34557 10/brlcad/trunk/include/opennurbs_ext.h: Add commented out debugging statements for the NearZero check.
20:45.45 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34558 10/brlcad/trunk/include/opennurbs_ext.h: Whoops, comment out additional cout debugging.
20:47.46 Defcon- ^^
20:55.36 Defcon- cya :)
21:09.14 starseeker oh, so that's it - the bounding boxes aren't including all of the volume they need to for a given uv parameter patch
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22:39.48 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34559 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/primitives/brep/brep.cpp: Tweak bounding box plotting for nurbs drawing, disable trimming for now (need to get bounding boxes behaving better first)
22:50.01 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34560 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/mged/help.tcl: add help for e_id even though it's a tclscript, include an example and do better at describing how to use it than e_id presently does via it's usage statement.
22:51.41 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34561 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/mged/e_id.tcl: make e_id use the new help string, just call 'help'.
22:54.21 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34562 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: improved e_id help, usage statement, description, and example.
22:57.06 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34563 10/brlcad/trunk/ (NEWS src/tclscripts/helpcomm.tcl): change the output of help. remove the parentheses, add a Description label, don't tab in.
23:06.57 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34564 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/helplib.tcl: remove the quotes around help strings as they imply the string needs to be quoted (and that doesn't seem to be the case)
23:09.24 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34565 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/opennurbs_ext.cpp: Force the upper level bounding boxes to be at least as big as the bounding boxes of the leaf boxes they contain.
23:10.28 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r34567 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/primitives/brep/brep.cpp: Turn off the debugging drawing for now.
23:10.36 CIA-28 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r34566 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/mged/help.tcl: remove the quotes even if it screws up the fontlocking due to the comment chars.
23:32.15 starseeker does happy dance and heads outta here

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