IRC log for #brlcad on 20141126

01:07.06 Notify 03BRL-CAD:starseeker * 63565 brlcad/branches/qtged/src/qbrlcad/QAccordianWidget.cxx: Improve accordian open/close behavior.
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01:10.24 Notify 03BRL-CAD:starseeker * 63566 brlcad/branches/qtged/src/qbrlcad/cadaccordian.cxx: Call it an 'object' rather than a 'primitive'
01:29.06 Notify 03BRL-CAD:starseeker * 63567 (brlcad/branches/qtged/src/qbrlcad/QToolPalette.cxx brlcad/branches/qtged/src/qbrlcad/QToolPalette.h): Rework the QToolPalette slightly with an eye towards allowing a shared control panel between multiple tool palettes.
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02:33.50 starseeker grr - shared control panel space for multiple palettes will take a little more work than I thought
02:36.45 starseeker probably warrants a slightly different version of the widget supporting 'groups' of buttons as part of a single palette
02:38.45 Notify 03BRL-CAD:starseeker * 63568 (brlcad/branches/qtged/src/qbrlcad/QToolPalette.cxx brlcad/branches/qtged/src/qbrlcad/QToolPalette.h): Back out QToolPalette changes - need a different direction for what we've been considering, so there's little justification for the extra complexity here.
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05:17.36 Notify 03BRL-CAD:brlcad * 63569 brlcad/trunk/NEWS: carl make pix-bw work like pix-png, writing to both a specified file and redirected output
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06:38.33 brlcad starseeker: could just disassociate the buttons from the palette -- just have the tools unhide/hide their palette so only one is visible at a time
06:40.07 brlcad http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/matrices/
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15:23.02 albertcoder Hi brlcad , had a great time at Reunion. :D
15:23.11 albertcoder Have you had a look of materials database?
15:23.25 albertcoder I have installed it on brlcad server here
15:23.36 albertcoder http://brlcad.org/~albertcoder/mediawiki-1.22.7/index.php/Special:Materials_database
15:23.57 albertcoder Just wanted some directions to improve my work further.
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16:06.02 sofat maths22, hello
16:06.11 sofat i want to ask one question
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16:08.04 brlcad wonders if the question will ever arrive
16:08.16 sofat which theme you are working
16:08.24 sofat in repo there are two themes
16:09.41 albertcoder brlcad, ping
16:09.49 albertcoder Just wanted to carry my work ahead
16:10.00 brlcad albertcoder: yes, I know response in just a sec :)
16:10.18 albertcoder yeah thanks :D
16:10.35 brlcad sofat: since it may take minutes or hours to get a reply (should stay on IRC), I suggest working a separate bit ... I don't think his mailing list message indicated which was closest but the intent was to merge iirc
16:10.52 brlcad albertcoder: so you tell me how this can be improved?
16:11.22 albertcoder hmm there are quite some improvements in my mind
16:11.52 albertcoder like adding the feature to add material types, trait types, and so on.
16:12.15 albertcoder at present these things are kind of static
16:12.27 brlcad static is actually probably good for a first cut
16:12.35 brlcad so people will understand the scope
16:12.43 albertcoder yeah thats fine
16:12.44 brlcad and not try to extend with arbitrary metadata
16:13.08 brlcad question is whether those five are a sufficient point is one question
16:13.21 brlcad I worded that terribly :)
16:13.41 brlcad meant that it's a good question whether those five traits are sufficient starting points
16:13.54 brlcad or whether there are some other common fields (which I think there are
16:14.16 brlcad did you ever get a copy of a material xls data sheet?
16:14.25 albertcoder nopes
16:14.26 brlcad it was a spreadsheet
16:14.36 brlcad hm, don't know if I have a copy of that any where
16:14.40 brlcad goes looking
16:18.38 sofat brlcad, i want to ask one question regarding Benchmark performance database
16:19.58 sofat i see there can be many improvements
16:21.15 sofat now i just need to know infrastructure website if it is mediawiki then i have already mediawiki extension and if wordpress then i will make plugin for it
16:25.18 albertcoder thinks brlcad go went gone ;-)
16:27.49 albertcoder So far the ultimate goal of materials database extension is concerned I think we need to make it interact with brlcad software.
16:29.27 albertcoder May be some tinkering with the brlcad source may be required to make the extension talk to the software.
16:30.58 Notify 03BRL-CAD:starseeker * 63571 (brlcad/trunk/src/libbrep/CMakeLists.txt brlcad/trunk/src/librt/CMakeLists.txt): Set up some test code to see what the openNURBS shape identification routines can tell us.
16:40.28 brlcad sofat: good question -- I don't see the benchmark being a solid fit with mw for some reason, maybe not even a solid fit with wordpress
16:40.30 brlcad current is neither, right?
16:41.17 sofat is confused
16:42.00 brlcad feels like it's prime for being a cake or node or cappucino or similar framework
16:42.17 brlcad sofat: don't be confused, I could be confused
16:42.33 brlcad there are certainly merits with working with mw and/or wp
16:42.50 brlcad wouldn't be opposed to either and leverage existing infrastructure is definitely a GOOD THING
16:43.30 Notify 03BRL-CAD:carlmoore * 63572 brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man1/en/pix2asc.xml: touch up, as usual, of pix2asc man page
16:43.37 brlcad I'm talking where are we waiting to go LONG long term and what will suite that application platform (the benchmark site is an application platform) the most
16:43.55 brlcad what is the current implementation based on? I don't recall
16:44.39 brlcad albertcoder: so I'm remembering a key feature needed for materials db
16:44.41 sofat it is python
16:45.14 brlcad albertcoder: support for composite material types, which implies changes on even those five values you already have
16:45.24 brlcad sofat: pure python, no frameworks?
16:45.44 sofat yes django framework
16:45.57 albertcoder brlcad, do you mean materials composed of one or more materials?
16:46.10 brlcad albertcoder: with composites, everything is a range ... min/max and default (which is basically the number you have now)
16:46.26 brlcad so there's a minimum density, a maximum, and a default
16:46.30 brlcad and min/max are optional
16:46.38 brlcad unlike the default, which is required
16:47.43 albertcoder sorry couldn't be so clear, an example can help me :)
16:48.50 albertcoder I am not sure if a specific material can have min and max density at the same time
16:49.00 albertcoder or I could not get you.
16:49.34 sofat and i have made this in php for mediawiki extension
16:50.24 brlcad other common fields (also with min/max/default fields) some you have, some you don't yet: name, alternate name(s), density, hardness, yield strength, ultimate strength, shear strength, youngs modulus, bulk modulus, and notes (free-form text)
16:50.24 sofat because your current website running on mediawiki so did this
16:51.19 brlcad albertcoder: a "pure" material like copper has a given density, but a copper alloy is going to have a range of density (probably a normal distribution)
16:51.51 brlcad sofat: so we have a python framework based on django and now a mediawiki extension, yes?
16:52.33 sofat yes ankesh made this in django and i made this in mediawiki
16:53.25 albertcoder okay brlcad then the min and max densities point to the densities of alloys of copper right?
16:56.28 albertcoder and we have to have the range shown once we see the details of copper. Do we?
16:57.05 albertcoder And I will try adding the above traits you mentioned as soon as possible.
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17:25.28 brlcad sofat: okay! sorry on the delay, had a convo going
17:25.45 brlcad sofat: so how does your work now on mw compare with the django work?
17:25.59 brlcad oof
17:26.31 brlcad albertcoder: density, hardness, yield strength, ultimate strength, shear strength, youngs modulus, bulk modulus
17:26.53 brlcad they should all have optional min/max ranges and a default value
17:27.44 brlcad ugh
17:29.01 teepee can see a pattern there ;)
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17:33.16 brlcad teepee: heh, yeah
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17:42.40 brlcad sofat: did you see my reply?
17:55.35 sofat no
17:55.41 sofat where is ?
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18:07.38 brlcad sofat: how does your work now on mw compare with the django work?
18:07.47 brlcad url/screenshots of both?
18:08.19 brlcad we can and should certainly try to consolidate the efforts as two is inefficient (certainly don't want to waste your time!)
18:09.04 sofat i can provide screen shots now and i put my project online tomorrow
18:09.18 sofat wait i send you screen shots
18:13.30 brlcad sofat: I can tell you that my immediate concern is that the site ankesh made LOOKS really nice, the polished design and appearance of the graphics is appealing
18:13.44 brlcad that affects usability and is central to the benchmark database site
18:14.06 brlcad that's why I suggested benchmark is a bit different than the rest in terms of needing to integrate with the rest of our infrastructure
18:15.02 brlcad the project there is more independent and it's more important that it look nice and be downright TRIVIAL to navigate
18:15.28 brlcad i.e. interface and usability are more important than features (the central feature is a simple performance number)
18:20.29 sofat i sent you mail in this mail store the screen shots of my work please check
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19:02.32 brlcad sofat: so you're going to make this very difficult I see :)
19:02.42 brlcad the screenshots look a lot better than last time I saw them
19:03.43 sofat :)
19:03.54 brlcad sofat: basically, I'd like you and ankesh11 to sort it out ...
19:04.10 brlcad if only one of you is active, that one would get to decide how to proceed
19:04.22 brlcad my requirement will be on the usability and appearance
19:04.51 brlcad ankesh11's interface style (the colors) still looks better, but that probably wouldn't be hard to adapt
19:04.57 brlcad to yours
19:05.10 brlcad so please discuss and let me know if there's a consensus
19:05.32 brlcad if there's not a consensus on how to proceed, I can intervene or give further guidance
19:05.33 sofat alright thanks
19:06.14 sofat i will discuses with him
19:06.23 brlcad basically, whomever is the most active will be the project lead for this
19:07.03 brlcad I can say that I think the MW menu is completely distracting on this interface, so that would need to be hidden if it stays on MW
19:07.13 brlcad the user shouldn't know or care what the underlying platform is
19:07.25 brlcad it should just be a clean simple interfae that matches our style guide
19:08.56 sofat ok i will change the menu style
19:10.10 brlcad for style guide, see: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2013/5844328496758784 <-- it's incomplete but a really decent start
19:10.19 brlcad and see beta.brlcad.org
19:10.46 brlcad rather beta.brlcad.org/wp/
19:10.59 brlcad waves
19:11.59 ``Erik preparing the thunderdome just in case? ;)
19:40.54 ankesh11 sofat: Hi, great that you are working on the Benchmark project too.
19:41.22 ankesh11 Oh, he went offline!
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22:14.21 starseeker ``Erik: did you happen to come across this paper back when you were working on the mesh boolean problem? http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.4434
22:14.34 starseeker was curious if you had an opinion about it
22:30.34 ``Erik I believe so, um, "it's good stuff"... it was one in the chain that descended from the old siggraph paper that our nmg stuff was based off of
22:31.10 ``Erik except it's on the path that went for simplification to improve robustness and performance, where nmg went towards complicating it for, uh, some ... reasons... I guess? O.o :D
22:44.31 ``Erik wait, no, I couldn't have seen that one, but it sure does look familiar
22:48.53 ``Erik meh, formulaic style, very similar images, :) no, I don't think I saw that one, it was after I was doing that stuff, I think I was shifted over to libwa by the time that came out. I'm guessing one of those referenced papers looks similar and is what I was thinking? *shrug*
22:49.46 ``Erik well beyond gci work, but maybe a minimal impl that just splits out obj could be on the wishlist for next years gsoc
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