IRC log for #brlcad on 20100212

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00:56.45 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2196 10/wiki/Projecto_VeRDE: link to the videos
01:07.43 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2197 10/wiki/Projecto_VeRDE: more linkage
01:24.05 starseeker is so done with snow
01:31.51 starseeker ``Erik: didn't see NC is using prisoners for slave labor, but not surprising...
01:34.28 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r2198 10/wiki/Projecto_VeRDE: link to her blogspot
01:37.05 starseeker brlcad: nice writeup!
01:37.14 starseeker don't suppose their model is available anywhere?
01:38.07 ``Erik `daily show had an interview with hte ex-wife talkin' about stuff, didn't outright say it, but it sure sounded like it
01:40.57 brlcad starseeker: you'll have to ask them, they probably won't mind sharing it
02:03.33 brlcad sends the news announcement, wonders what takes so long..
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16:46.41 brlcad funkalicious
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20:45.49 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r37616 10/brlcad/trunk/configure.ac: extra blank line
20:46.17 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r37617 10/brlcad/trunk/INSTALL: document the new --disable/enable-strict flag.
20:47.18 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r37618 10/brlcad/trunk/regress/repository.sh: install docs should be fixed for the next release. make em fail.
20:48.57 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r37619 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libbu/bomb.c: quell ubuntu compilation warnings about ignoring the return value.
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23:02.21 brlcad interesting list of apps here: http://www.p-gis.com/2010/02/opensource-gis-softwares.html
23:11.17 starseeker wow, that's a very comprehensive list
23:13.58 brlcad ah, now this is related to the topology validation route I was hoping we'd go: http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
23:14.14 brlcad "just" needs to be expanded to 3D
23:15.16 starseeker hmm: http://www.thp.uni-duisburg.de/Ygl/ReadMe.html
23:17.13 starseeker 'course, I suppose Mesa would do a similar job...
23:17.25 starseeker brlcad: "topology validation"?
23:19.08 brlcad starseeker: basically the building block components we talked about a long while back
23:19.13 brlcad line-line intersect
23:19.14 starseeker ah
23:19.17 brlcad line-curve intersect
23:19.28 starseeker what SISL implements
23:19.31 brlcad that geos package basically does exaclty that
23:19.38 starseeker hmm, cool :-)
23:19.59 brlcad just they work with 2d entities, as they're mirroring a java api
23:20.17 brlcad one that was pretty well thought out though
23:20.25 starseeker cool
23:20.30 brlcad would probably extend very nicely to our domain
23:21.35 brlcad so you could take a given geometry and 1) say whether it's "valid" or not (solid, closed, manifold, non-intersecting, etc) and 2) assist with boolean operations on surface surface intersections
23:22.56 starseeker nods
23:24.51 starseeker twitches seeing a big list of free software to try out and having no box to do it on... argh
23:26.26 brlcad big advantage of geos over sisl, it's license fits ;)
23:26.35 starseeker yep :-)
23:26.49 starseeker I've accepted that we can't use SISL, it just sucks :-P
23:27.39 brlcad another thought regarding tess support, I bet we could pull the code directly from mesa for GLU
23:28.06 brlcad that should be the old SGI code, probably not even modified
23:28.21 starseeker you mean for NURBS?
23:28.26 brlcad SGI's opengl stuff was all open sourced several years ago
23:28.26 brlcad yeah
23:28.27 starseeker hadn't thought of that
23:28.38 brlcad MIT-style license, so it's good
23:28.48 starseeker yeah - I think that was their "reference" implementation or some such?
23:28.55 brlcad bets if you download mesa, it's there
23:29.48 starseeker if not, maybe here: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/
23:31.31 starseeker hmm - Bogdan Sikorski is called out specifically for writing the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator in Mesa, so it's there
23:34.36 starseeker brlcad: I never could find trimmed -> untrimmed papers online - any helpful pointers?
23:34.42 brlcad another one to keep an eye on (or get involved with) .. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/197108
23:34.48 brlcad boost.geometry
23:37.51 starseeker ah, this looks promising: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/glu/sgi/libnurbs/nurbtess
23:38.30 brlcad yep, that'd be it
23:38.50 brlcad all of http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/glu/sgi/libnurbs
23:39.05 starseeker is curious about libtess
23:39.17 brlcad even libtess too, but that's a tessellator callback interface for opengl
23:39.24 starseeker ah
23:41.45 starseeker heh - sorry ``Erik, looks like more C++

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