IRC log for #brlcad on 20100306

00:14.34 *** join/#brlcad Ralith (~ralith@69.90.48.97)
00:40.41 ``Erik hm
02:16.01 *** join/#brlcad KingofCSU (~king@118.249.63.210)
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13:12.54 CIA-85 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r37928 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: apparently, the namespace name changes weren't careful enough. this was probably causing an initialization failure so denote bob's change as a fix to rtwizard.
16:56.04 starseeker woo hoo, meshlab ebuild for gentoo
16:56.07 starseeker tries it out
17:58.54 CIA-85 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r37929 10/brlcad/trunk/src/archer/TODO: Add some more notes on MGED->Archer functionality migration.
20:14.56 *** join/#brlcad guillermina (~guillermi@42-153-231-201.fibertel.com.ar)
20:22.49 starseeker Crud. That's what I get for not pouncing on a cheap copy of a book at amazon
20:23.17 louipc an expensive copy?
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22:19.08 ``Erik heh
23:13.32 CIA-85 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r37930 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libgcv/NOTES: Add link to a project apparently using the open inventor toolkit as a place to check for updates.
23:47.31 starseeker discovers that FreeCAD can actually load the Inventor Cassini space probe model
23:47.34 starseeker cool
23:48.38 starseeker aaaaand can't export it
23:48.41 starseeker mutter...
23:49.58 ``Erik heh
23:50.16 starseeker ah well, it's probably not NURBS inside anyway...
23:50.31 starseeker sees what dxf export does...
23:50.35 ``Erik not as funny as louipc's "an expensive copy?" quip, but still amusing :D
23:50.57 starseeker that was pretty good :-)
23:51.11 ``Erik the dudes on top gear have way too much fun O.o
23:52.59 starseeker http://bzflag.bz/~starseeker/cassini_inventor_freecad.png
23:55.13 starseeker <snort> even dxf export didn't do much
23:55.58 starseeker eyes a few visual artifacts... hmm
23:56.01 ``Erik yowza, I think they must managed to air "what is this shit-box?" on top gear, the dudes french access plus the helmet and face wrap muffled it pretty good, though
23:56.24 starseeker dxf export fails, visual flaws... maybe it is some kind of spline underneath...
23:56.37 starseeker hehe
23:56.49 starseeker and somewhere someone is up in arms over it
23:57.26 starseeker must... import... cassini... model... look at that detail
23:58.13 ``Erik where'd it come from?
23:58.35 starseeker http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/models/
23:59.22 ``Erik the facetization looks very... relative based per ... component
23:59.33 starseeker uncompressed, it's 25 Megs
23:59.40 ``Erik has seen that ... very odd... behavior somewhere before...

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