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02:10.06 ignacio|sleep back tomorrow
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02:34.15 maths22 I will kill it: I didn't realize it might be a problem
02:35.28 maths22 I was messing with fisheye, and I forgot to take it out
02:35.42 maths22 Done
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03:14.04 maths22 are the irc issues on freenode's end or on ours
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03:47.46 brlcad maths22: not seeing any issues here, so more than likely a particular freenode node
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04:07.37 brlcad maths22: any progress on the website?
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14:13.32 kesha Hi brlcad
14:13.35 kesha LTNS
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14:53.10 ignacio|here Good bye Gcibot :'(
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16:24.16 brlcad hi kesha
16:24.26 brlcad ignacio|here: thanks for running it
16:24.31 brlcad ignacio|here: you applying for gsoc?
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17:47.55 ignacio|here hey brlcad
17:48.07 ignacio|here brlcad, is a org in gsoc?
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17:51.46 ignacio|here yeah i see
17:51.47 ignacio|here xD
17:55.56 brlcad ignacio|here: for many years running
17:56.11 brlcad that list is not yet updated for this year
17:56.25 brlcad some is the same, some different
18:01.17 ignacio|here cool
18:01.29 ignacio|here I need wait few gci's for be a gsoc student :P
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18:05.37 brlcad ignacio|here: ah excellent then, maybe we can get you for gci next year then :)
18:05.40 brlcad hi trailhand
18:05.50 ignacio|here brlcad, yay!
18:05.53 ignacio|here I need to learn about it
18:06.04 ignacio|here btw, the source are > 800mb!
18:06.25 brlcad not the last time I checked
18:06.32 brlcad compiled sources are
18:07.04 ignacio|here But
18:07.06 brlcad a single checkout should be less
18:07.15 ignacio|here as I see
18:07.18 ignacio|here the tasks are for program things no?
18:07.53 brlcad what do you mean?
18:07.57 brlcad gsoc?
18:08.12 brlcad gsoc is all about programming, writing code
18:08.38 trailhand [non gsoc related] Hello, can BRL-CAD do distributed ray tracing using CUDA?
18:08.38 ignacio|here brlcad, about gci :P
18:08.48 brlcad unlike gci in that regard, no design doc outreach etc tasks
18:09.07 brlcad our gci tasks spanned the gamut
18:09.12 ignacio|here col
18:09.14 ignacio|here *cool
18:09.36 ignacio|here try to download brl cad
18:09.45 brlcad web work, testing, modeling, writing, blogging, graphics, design, coding, artwork
18:10.24 brlcad trailhand: short answer: no
18:10.26 ignacio|here 15 mins for download Brl Cad
18:10.26 ignacio|here haha
18:11.23 brlcad trailhand: I'm much more a fan of OpenCL for a variety of reasons, but not opposed to CUDA
18:12.10 trailhand @brlcad, I like OpenCL better too, but might have a chance to do it in CUDA, then later OpenCL
18:12.11 brlcad trailhand: we do have an experimental opencl branch that implements some basic infrastructure
18:13.14 brlcad working for our ellipsoid shapes, and basically grunt work to convert some others
18:13.41 brlcad big effort to convert all of our 24+ entities
18:13.53 brlcad trailhand: a chance to do what?
18:15.00 trailhand @brlcad, "chance" meaning funding via a university, still working on the details--the funding is for CUDA
18:15.23 brlcad also speaking of gsoc, we'll almost certainly have an opencl gsoc project
18:16.15 brlcad trailhand: that's cool, which U.?
18:16.28 trailhand @brlcad, Wichita State
18:16.51 brlcad well let me know how/if I can help
18:17.33 brlcad ideally, any infrastructure implemented would be sufficiently abstracted without hurting performance and letting us leverage cuda or opencl accordingly
18:18.17 trailhand @brlcad, well I'm learning CUDA and OpenCL, but I'm pretty good at BRL-CAD internals
18:18.43 trailhand and I would be willing to mentor a GSOC student when I can
18:20.40 trailhand By the way I announced our "Tovero" BRL-CAD DSL on the devel mailing list but didn't seem to be much interest
18:21.24 trailhand and abstraction of parallel processing architecture is a really good idea
18:25.06 brlcad trailhand: don't take mailing list response as a lack of interest!
18:25.55 trailhand @brlcad, I know--I didn't phrase my posting in the form of a question ;)
18:25.57 brlcad responses are often conversely proportional to interests -- harder questions take more time to respond to and fewer people are qualified to answer
18:26.05 brlcad that also helps ;)
18:26.47 brlcad I guarantee that your message is in my reply queue
18:26.48 maths22 brlcad: I started with the header work, but I won't really have time until my robotics tournament happens next week
18:27.38 brlcad maths22: everything committed that you worked on? I might be in that area over the weekend as we're getting ready for gsoc
18:27.50 brlcad don't want to stomp on anything you've done
18:27.58 ignacio|here *chan chan*
18:28.01 ignacio|here ignacio@estudiante-laptop:~/Descargas$ sudo dpkg -i brlcad_7.24.0-0_i386.deb
18:28.08 maths22 not yet. I'll try to do that today, but I was having a bit of trouble with it
18:28.30 maths22 I had problems setting the necessary properties on all the files
18:28.32 brlcad ignacio|here: looks like current checkout is about 700mb (oof, we've gotten bigger or svn files have gotten bigger or both)
18:28.43 brlcad ~cadsvn
18:28.43 infobot To obtain BRL-CAD from Subversion: svn checkout https://svn.code.sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/brlcad/trunk brlcad
18:29.09 ignacio|here ouch
18:29.18 ignacio|here brlcad, How I can start brlcad?
18:29.21 ignacio|here I installed the package
18:29.32 ignacio|here ooooh, this have a menu in the apps menu
18:29.32 ignacio|here xD
18:29.43 brlcad yeah, the linux maintainer is pretty swank
18:29.55 brlcad he set up menus, icons, double-click, ..
18:30.51 ignacio|here how works brlcad
18:30.52 brlcad trailhand: on the surface what's needed is more restructuring how rays our fired within our application front-end and tracking the data differently in the API (so we can bundle coherently)
18:30.53 ignacio|here idk D:
18:31.29 brlcad ignacio|here: brl-cad is NOT easy to just browse and "figure out" .. it usually takes training and tutorials
18:31.53 ignacio|here I think this have a interface like blender :(
18:32.08 brlcad it's also a big system, so it's really easy to get lost
18:32.18 brlcad ignacio|here: we're changing everything
18:32.34 ignacio|here D:
18:32.39 brlcad you could lead up a project to make it better, once you know what's what
18:32.53 brlcad so a couple things to check out, I assume you ran mged
18:33.00 brlcad that's the old workhorse
18:33.51 brlcad EXTREMELY powerful and flexible, but probably one of the hardest interfaces you'll ever encounter .. we make emacs look easy
18:33.57 trailhand @brlcad, I will look more at your experimental OpenCL branch. I have a meeting tomorrow about the project.
18:34.22 trailhand [for the record] I like mged
18:34.28 brlcad ignacio|here: there's a newer interface in alpha status called "archer" that is a little better, should look more familiar and is a lot easier but still has huge room for improvement
18:34.40 ignacio|here how I can install it
18:34.54 brlcad ignacio|here: we have a third inteface in a design / requirements phase that is being built on Qt
18:35.24 brlcad I like mged too, but I remember learning it 15+ years ago and really have a hard time with learning it
18:35.36 ignacio|here :o
18:35.37 brlcad especially knowing other modeling software, it's unlike anything else
18:35.51 brlcad you have to go through the tutorials
18:36.44 brlcad ignacio|here: here are 400+ pages of tutorials that just touch on the basics of mged: http://brlcad.org/w/images/c/cf/Introduction_to_MGED.pdf
18:37.03 brlcad suggest going through at least one or two of them
18:37.27 brlcad (going through all of them can be done in less than a day)
18:37.57 brlcad ignacio|here: for installing: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Compiling
18:38.00 ignacio|here brlcad, thx!
18:38.51 ignacio|here I downloaded the de
18:39.11 ignacio|here *deb
18:39.55 ignacio|here brlcad, what is "mged"?
18:41.51 brlcad Multi-Device Geometry Editor (MGED)
18:42.55 brlcad that third generation interface I mentioned will just be called "brlcad" or "BRL-CAD"
18:43.17 brlcad ignacio|here: BRL-CAD is really a suite of 400 tools... mged is just one of them
18:44.04 brlcad there are geometry converters, image converters, various processing tools, rendering tools, modeling tools, ...
18:44.10 ignacio|here but
18:44.16 ignacio|here mged have a graphical interface?
18:44.19 ignacio|here I start it and do nothing
18:44.35 brlcad hm?
18:44.43 brlcad yes, mged has a graphical interface
18:44.54 brlcad didn't start?
18:44.56 ignacio|here This didn't start anything in my laptop
18:45.05 ignacio|here this open a terminal
18:45.07 ignacio|here but nothing more
18:45.21 brlcad huh, that sounds like a bug .. what's in the terminal?
18:45.44 ignacio|here nothing
18:45.48 brlcad this would be something for the linux maintainer, he makes that .deb
18:45.59 brlcad not even a command prompt?
18:47.20 brlcad I still suggest compiling from source and running that
18:48.05 trailhand @brlcad, I have to get back to work or my boss will dock my pay, but I'll come back here later when I know more. Bye.
18:48.53 ignacio|here brlcad, I'll try to run mged in terminal
18:52.29 ignacio|here brlcad, it start from terminal and no from launcher
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18:56.03 brlcad ignacio|here: so something in the launcher has changed or something in mged has changed
18:56.10 brlcad either way, that should be trivial to fix :)
18:56.20 brlcad that's gci-scope ;)
18:56.26 ignacio|here :)
18:56.31 ignacio|here i think if you remove %f
18:56.32 ignacio|here its works
18:56.52 brlcad that's probably so you can drop a .g file on it and have it open it
18:57.11 brlcad or maybe needed for double-click
18:57.44 ignacio|here :$
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20:43.30 starseeker considers researching what a heated driveway would cost...
20:45.47 starseeker that's pretty cool: http://brlcad.org/~starseeker/brlcad-doxygen-r59869/d7/db1/bool_8c.xhtml
20:46.10 starseeker the svg viewer actually makes the graphviz outputs useful
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21:23.40 andromeda-galaxy I participated in the recent GCI session and was granted commit access for some of my work, so I want to work more on BRL-CAD. Unfortunately, I have been really busy with schoolwork for the past month and have not had a chance to work on BRL-CAD at all. I was wondering if anyone hade a particular project for BRL-CAD that I could help with, as I am not sure what would be useful for me to do right now...
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21:36.14 brlcad andromeda-galaxy: hi!
21:36.33 brlcad andromeda-galaxy: absolutely .. what interests you?
21:36.57 starseeker andromeda-galaxy: know anything about doxygen? :-P
21:37.00 brlcad you certainly earned your commit status (for some that takes years to achieve), so glad to hear you're taking advantage of it
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22:23.06 andromeda-galaxy brlcad: I can't think of a particular part that interests me more than the rest of work on BRL-CAD; I was wondering if you had a particular initiave that I could help with...
22:23.24 andromeda-galaxy starseeker: a little...
22:40.19 andromeda-galaxy brlcad: one thing that I can think of now specifically is the idea of factoring most of the TCL/TK code out into a separate module so that BRL-CAD could theoretically operate using an interface other than TK. Would that be of any interest to anyone else?
22:40.20 ``Erik starseeker: heated driveway might be the least optimal approach... a small frontloader or a plow for your truck might do better ... (or just drive the truck over it if you're willing to feel a bit offroady.. drove mine out of the driveway in 2wd, but then had to go shovel it for erin's car, so'z now I have a dead arm)
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22:55.41 ``Erik (or go missoura style, put some 2.5ton axles on the truck and get some pulling tires and rims *cough*)
22:57.42 ``Erik http://www.racingjunk.com/Tires/182137169/DICK-CEPEK-GIANT-PULLERS.html aw yeah, hillbilly to the max :D
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23:22.19 pulkitiiit Hi, I was installing BRL-CAD on my Linux machine and when i entered the command make test there were 10 errors. As mentioned in Compiling page to do "make > build.log 2>&1" next I did that and saw the complete build.log and there was no error. What should i do?
23:23.53 andromed` pulkitiiit: make test just runs the tests for BRL-CAD commands and libraries (after BRL-CAD is compiled); some of the tests fail currently, since during GCI many tests were added but failures weren't necessarily fixed.
23:26.45 pulkitiiit Ok. Just wanted to make sure whether i shall proceed further or not. Thanks
23:27.19 andromed` pulkitiiit: you're welcome
23:31.33 pulkitiiit Can you provide me some resource using whick i can build my first quick project.
23:32.52 andromed` pulkitiiit: for building BRL-CAD the wiki/Compiling and wiki/Bulding_from_SVN pages are very good; if you just mean a reference for build tools in general I'm afraid I can't help you there apart from pointing you to the GCC manual
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23:37.02 pulkitiiit I just wanted to know how to run BRL-CAD . How to test the changes i have made and all other prior knowledge. Ok, I will first read the documentation provided.
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23:39.18 andromed` pulkitiiit: The short answer to that is that you can run most of the BRL-CAD libraries out of the build directory, i.e. build/bin/archer or build/bin/mged; there is lots more documentation on the wiki --- for starters, see the Quick Test section on the Compiling page
23:39.33 andromed` but you can install into a central directory and put the executables in $PATH you want
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