IRC log for #brlcad on 20100619

00:09.33 brlcad interesting .. most of the ps files I've looked at are graphics window wireframes so they are proper vector
00:56.56 CIA-51 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r39627 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/ (167 files in 2 dirs):
00:56.57 CIA-51 BRL-CAD: split the mged.sh shar up into its multiple constituent files. this can help
00:56.57 CIA-51 BRL-CAD: make ensure that doc updates are greppable and replaceable in a localized
00:56.58 CIA-51 BRL-CAD: context. forced eol-style native on our ps files since they're text by applying
00:56.58 CIA-51 BRL-CAD: before mime-type is set.
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06:23.44 csanyipal Hi,
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07:48.17 csanyipal I have just installed BrlCAD from downloaded tarball brlcad-7.16.8.tar.bz2
07:49.19 csanyipal I have installed it with commands: autogen.sh, ./configure, make, sudo make install
07:50.00 csanyipal I started Archer and try to save a new file.g but get error message:
07:50.30 csanyipal Unsupported display manager type -ogl
07:51.15 csanyipal what can I do to solve this problem? I suppose I must to configure somehow and install it again?
07:51.50 csanyipal My system is Debian GNU/Linuy Lenny.
07:51.59 csanyipal Linux
08:58.07 csanyipal I just tried to configure after 'make clean' with './configure --disable-ogl' and then install brlcad (make, sudo make install) but
08:58.51 csanyipal archer complain again for 'Unsupported display manager type -ogl'
08:58.54 csanyipal Why?
08:59.09 csanyipal How can I resolve this problem?
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11:43.05 ``Erik archer is very experimental and not recommended for normal use... if you really want to do it, you need to use the --enable-opengl or --enable-ogl option when you run configure
11:43.21 ``Erik mged is the supported gui right now
11:43.56 csanyipal ``Erik: OK Thanks!
11:44.31 csanyipal I'm being working with Mged. :)
11:46.39 ``Erik the princepal for archer doesn't hop on irc, but starseeker shares an office with him and knows a fair bit more than I do about it... might wanna wait a few hours and talk to him if you are interested in that aspect *shrug* :)
11:51.57 csanyipal ``Erik: OK but I'm not interested in that aspect *shrug* because I just want to create some object with Mged: actually an anti gnat screen frame for my windows here.
11:52.10 csanyipal :)
11:53.25 ``Erik okie :) hm, anit-gnat screen frame? interesting :) if you're familiar with TCL, the mged prompt is actually an extended tclsh, which should make it fairly easy to generate stuff like the mesh wires, frame lengths, etc
11:54.27 ``Erik if you get the urge, http://more.brlcad.org was set up as a model repository where people can contribute stuff, too :D
11:55.29 csanyipal For me it's a pleasure to model with Mged so I think I shall create it my self. is it possible to export the finished model to QCAD format?
11:56.20 ``Erik I don't know what format qcad uses, but I'd imagine there's some intermediate format that we can export and qcad can read O.o try "ls /usr/brlcad/bin/g-*" for the list
11:56.34 csanyipal QCAD uses DXF-files.
11:57.16 ``Erik yup, we have g-dxf ...
11:57.51 csanyipal so what does it mean?
11:58.22 ``Erik it's a converter that changes BRL-CAD geometry to a DXF file
11:58.37 csanyipal :) It's promising..
11:58.40 ``Erik probably as a bunch of triangles
11:59.36 ``Erik yeah, as triangles :/
11:59.53 ``Erik or rather, polygons
12:01.03 csanyipal OK I'm going now to create my AntiGnatScreenFrame model.. and if I get it I shall put it on http://more.brlcad.org :)
12:01.42 ``Erik sweet :D good luck!
12:01.59 csanyipal Thanks! :D
12:17.29 ``Erik huh, nifty, that lotus is almost as fast as an m3 O.o :D
12:25.23 ``Erik (on the top gear track, a fair bit slower top speed, 163 vs 189)
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13:31.16 dtidrow ``Erik: which lotus?
13:33.20 ``Erik the new evora
13:33.31 ``Erik brlcad pasted a link to the top gear treatment on youtube
13:34.13 dtidrow how long ago?
13:34.42 ``Erik uh, yesterday? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHcLP0wvENQ
13:35.28 dtidrow so much for searching the log -ty :-)
13:36.56 dtidrow crud - will have to watch later, got a dentist appt. in a few minutes
13:37.52 ``Erik heh, piss the dentist off and watch it on your phone while he/she/it works ;> *duck*
13:47.53 Stattrav ``Erik: you bought a lotus evora ?
13:51.43 ``Erik hell no
13:51.53 ``Erik <-- pets his m3 :D
13:52.29 ``Erik I don't think the evora is even buyable yet
13:53.36 ``Erik my next vehicle will probably be a small pickup truck
13:57.14 Stattrav lol
13:57.53 Stattrav takes his bycycle out for a trip and stare awkwardly at women outside the pubs :P
13:58.22 ``Erik when I was shopping, I had a short list of some damn nifty cars, I think the 'pedestrian' appearance of the m3 may've been the clincher.... less cop attention and all... less ricers showing how small their dicks are, etc
13:58.55 ``Erik <-- wishes he lived in a place where a bicycle was acceptable transportation :(
13:59.22 ``Erik 33 km between my front door to my office :(
13:59.36 Stattrav well here they arent. but that is the only means of transportation. I have a motorbike but the doc asked me not to drive a motorbike
13:59.44 Stattrav woah thats far
14:00.01 ``Erik a significant portion on windy roads with no shoulder and fucktards in SUV's driving way over the limit, who don't bump out for side traffic
14:00.37 Stattrav woah MD right
14:00.55 ``Erik the US is a very young area, our cities are not built like the rest of the world
14:01.08 ``Erik so no, my drive is NOT very far in US standards, ... :/
14:01.38 ``Erik I have a shorter drive than I beleive any of the irc lurking office mates here... :D
14:02.24 Stattrav lol my drive is 20km a side and thankfully i am on leave from the university till the gsoc season ends
14:03.03 ``Erik if I'd have known that brlcad was not going to do the BRL-CAD gsoc admin this year, I woulda :/
14:03.29 ``Erik I think that even if the program is a net loss in the short term, it's still a net gain in the long term
14:03.43 Stattrav :) sure do the next year, i shall be apply
14:03.56 ``Erik ah well, que sera sera
14:04.18 Stattrav net loss in terms of time commitments for you folks ?
14:04.22 ``Erik yeah
14:04.52 ``Erik we can code, or we can try to help newbies figure out how to code...
14:05.26 Stattrav aah
14:05.31 ``Erik in short term producitivity analysis, 'training' is a huge drain... but if you don't have it, attrition destroys you
14:05.56 Stattrav ohh
14:06.08 ``Erik at some point, you need to stop being productive and teach someone else how to be productive... or it ends
14:06.18 ``Erik *shurg8
14:07.16 ``Erik BRL-CAD is old enough to have actually suffered that pain as a software project... :)
14:07.37 Stattrav :) i get it. i sure hope to get to know things by then if i have to apply. I am right now reading up on various geometric modeling and visual representation papers for my RA ship with a prof here
14:08.07 ``Erik also; when I started on it, I carried the phrase "hit by a bus" as a reason to pass knowledge, that grated on people I think as the ueber-guru was taken by a traffic accident just a couple years prior
14:08.37 Stattrav lol
14:09.32 ``Erik annoys me that they actually took the pain and didn't learn from it, just was angry that it'd happened :(
14:10.14 ``Erik at the time... I think things are a lot better now, I think starseekers "zomfg dox!!!" attitude is pushing things in teh right way *shrug*
14:10.45 Stattrav :)
14:11.07 ``Erik so you're going for a doctorate?
14:12.13 Stattrav yeah right now, I shall be working as an RA for year and then apply for masters at IISc, Bangalore then go for a phd in the US
14:12.33 ``Erik have you selected a school int he US to try for yet?
14:12.54 ``Erik I imagine that'd shape how you work your MS
14:14.27 ``Erik harvard and princeton look nice on paper, I d'no if they offer much for development... ucb, mit, cmu, ... I think those're the zomfg schools for computer science and graphics
14:14.46 ``Erik unc/ch seems to be a bit of a name, too
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18:28.24 ``Erik hrm
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