IRC log for #brlcad on 20070701

00:13.15IriX64Opera, go figure :)
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01:03.42IriX64who wrote autogen.sh?
01:04.47IriX64the header is there but no authors name or am i just missing it?
01:08.14IriX64just wondering, because i'm having a problem upgrading to automake-1.10, it parsed it as 1.1.0 so i dropped back to 1.9.6
01:16.28IriX64libtool i'm running is 1.5.22 it parses fine
01:22.20IriX64http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2   :)  a little playing around
01:23.38IriX64should see what rev irssi is at i guess that ones old
01:26.22IriX64hah .8.11
01:34.09IriX64sigh no perl again, one day i'm gonna have to tackle that
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01:41.20IriX64_works, might as well put it on the server :)
01:47.34IriX64there you go (as if anybody wants it though they all use Mirc :P)
02:04.13IriX64http://www.pastebin.ca/598132   <---- man i thought you fixed it (cvs update not 3 hrs ago)
02:05.36IriX64mistake me for a serious man will you :P
02:06.40IriX64the benign ones i won't report :)
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02:24.03IriX64http://www.pastebin.ca/598148  <---- could use some help here.
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02:28.56IriX64tried with system tk lib too, problem is it comes from the same people :)
02:29.42IriX648.5a5 8.5a6 happens with both
02:38.33IriX64gotta go guys, l8r
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04:30.35IriX64tried a make distclean, tcl has no rule to do a distclean :(
04:42.09IriX64the old build works with Xwin32 too, hoping the same for 7.10 :)
04:45.01IriX64www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/mapped.png  have a look
04:46.51IriX64err http:www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2   mapped.png sorry :)
04:55.55brlcadstop it
05:00.36IriX64ok
05:11.27IriX64permantly? If I get something worth sharing, is it allowed?
05:12.17brlcadyou've been going pretty much non-stop for over 4 hours
05:12.35brlcadwith complete disregard to anyone talking back and stopping after 5
05:12.50IriX64apologies
05:33.38IriX64goodnight
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08:24.37MinuteElectronbrlcad: busy?
08:25.10MinuteElectronconfigure: creating ./config.status
08:25.12MinuteElectron.infig.status: error: cannot find input file:
08:27.46brlcadsounds like you're still missing things, sounds like autogen.sh did not complete successfully/correctly but I'd need more info to know for sure
08:28.05brlcadrun ./autogen.sh --verbose and make sure it completes correctly
08:29.28MinuteElectronok
08:31.04MinuteElectronbrlcad: winsock.h error http://paste2.org/p/4194
08:51.43MinuteElectronbrlcad: What would be the signs of a problem
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14:14.17n9986Hi all
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14:21.01AchiestDragonwell at least he did not ask a question and leave before anyone got arround to answer it like normal :)
14:28.10pooliohehe, mornin
14:28.22AchiestDragonhi
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16:42.55brlcadMinuteElectron: ping
16:43.24brlcadAchiestDragon: :)  true
16:43.42brlcadso, how does this look:  http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/newtitle.png
16:55.38MinuteElectronbrlcad: back
16:57.36MinuteElectronbrlcad: wow! looking good
16:58.45brlcadit should collapse down to about 1024 wide minimum with the right css
16:59.08elite01fine
16:59.17MinuteElectronit is 1200x600
16:59.48brlcadright, at 1200 now in that clip, but it should compress further
16:59.55MinuteElectronok
17:00.13MinuteElectronyou have two images?
17:01.20brlcadthe right side should be able to move in/out almost all the way over -- where the search and menu come together probably
17:01.26brlcadtwo images?
17:01.34MinuteElectronok, I get it
17:02.32brlcadthere are probably 4 or 5 css-layers in there to make it work
17:03.39brlcadthe logo text, the left background, the right background, the left search, and the right menu
17:04.19MinuteElectronthe logo text is going to be seperate?
17:04.26MinuteElectronit would be easier to make it par tof hte image
17:05.12brlcadthen it won't compress much more than 1200
17:05.29brlcadto get the right side to slide under the left without seeing a hard line
17:05.53MinuteElectronhmm, ok
17:06.00brlcadi mean unless you can sort it out, good luck with that :)
17:06.10MinuteElectron:D
17:06.11brlcadthe css is the hard part ;)
17:06.22brlcadthere's lots of little detail in ther
17:06.25MinuteElectrondo you have the original photoshop files so i can get the layers out of it?
17:06.30brlcadthe menu in particular
17:06.36brlcadyeah, sure
17:06.39brlcadhold on a sec
17:08.31brlcaduploaded, same dir titlebar.psd
17:09.00MinuteElectronthanks
17:12.33MinuteElectronbrlcad: ha, I see the Haiku layer at the bottom :P
17:15.04brlcadyup
17:15.06brlcadcomparison
17:15.31brlcadand inspiration
17:31.20MinuteElectronbrlcad: There is a problem with the truck.
17:32.13brlcadwhat's that?
17:32.24MinuteElectron82.7.33.28/drupal-5.1/
17:32.27MinuteElectronhttp://82.7.33.28/drupal-5.1/
17:32.38MinuteElectronOn resolutions 1024x768 it looks good
17:32.50MinuteElectronbut anything lower then the truck gets cut.
17:34.09brlcadthat's what I was referring to about making the title text a separate layer
17:34.30MinuteElectronoh I see,
17:34.35brlcadmakes that line go away
17:34.36MinuteElectronworking on it
17:35.01brlcadthree layers, so the right side is above the left's background but under the left's text
17:35.56brlcaddid gimp strip out the text layer effects or'd you do that?
17:36.17MinuteElectronit was gimp
17:36.26MinuteElectroncoudl you send me the text in a png
17:36.29brlcadsure
17:38.05brlcadwant them as one or two?
17:38.11MinuteElectronone please
17:41.29brlcadhttp://my.brlcad.org/tmp/titletext.png
17:41.46MinuteElectronthanks
17:44.46brlcadsure, let me know if you need any others
17:45.02brlcadthat should be the only blend going on if i'm not mistaken
17:48.46brlcadah, xyz needs it's own layer too to work right
17:49.33MinuteElectronxyz?
17:49.40MinuteElectronoh
17:49.43MinuteElectronthe graph
17:50.03brlcadthe axes
17:50.08MinuteElectronbrlcad: Can you take a look at the thing?
17:50.19MinuteElectronIt is not improved.
17:50.47brlcadhttp://my.brlcad.org/tmp/xyz.png
17:51.54brlcadlooks like it's getting better
17:52.01MinuteElectronnot at 800x600
17:54.22MinuteElectronxyz added
17:54.34MinuteElectronbrlcad: Opinon?
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18:03.41brlcadhttp://my.brlcad.org/tmp/titleleft.png
18:04.26brlcadwith that, you should be able to let the right side be all the way back
18:04.32brlcadso it just slides under
18:04.44pooliohowdy brlcad
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18:05.03brlcadhowdy poolio
18:07.01IriX64http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2     m35.jpg  (it did it :))
18:07.02pooliogorgeous day, what are we all doing on our computers? :p
18:07.23IriX64poolio and why is our wallpaper a shot of a sunset :)
18:07.55MinuteElectronbrlcad: Any chance you could remove the border on the top and left, I cannot without b0rking the transparency.
18:08.07MinuteElectronIriX64: cool, ure server fixed
18:08.31brlcadIriX64: interesting, photon mapping I presume
18:08.39IriX64minuteelectron yeah was trying something, doesn't work that way :)
18:08.41brlcadMinuteElectron: sure
18:08.44IriX64brlcad yes
18:08.47brlcadyou mean the black stripe
18:09.15MinuteElectronyeah
18:09.19brlcadwould like to retain the hairline, though it certainly doesn't have to be in the iamge
18:09.26MinuteElectrondw
18:09.30MinuteElectronI will change the other images
18:09.50poolioMinuteElectron: Is there a recent version of the site up somewhere?
18:10.08MinuteElectronhttp://82.7.33.28/drupal-1.5
18:10.33IriX64doesn't resolve minuteelectron
18:10.39brlcadwant me to fill it in transparent or clip the image one pixel smaller?
18:10.51MinuteElectronbrlcad: neither, I will do it.
18:10.58poolioit's drupal-5.1 not 1.5
18:11.03MinuteElectronyeah
18:11.05MinuteElectronbah
18:11.14brlcadso, what do you want me to do with it? :)
18:11.15IriX64heh
18:11.20MinuteElectronbrlcad: nothing
18:11.29brlcadheh, okay
18:11.52poolionifty header.
18:12.02MinuteElectronlook now everyone
18:12.21MinuteElectronjust not in IE.
18:12.34brlcadawesome
18:12.47IriX64i'm looking in ie seems right
18:12.49poolioWOAH! Hooray transparency!
18:12.50MinuteElectronResizes successfully down to 800x600
18:12.59MinuteElectronIriX64: Yes, grey blobs FTW.
18:13.16MinuteElectronIriX64: You running 7?
18:13.31IriX646 let me try fiefox minutelectron
18:13.35MinuteElectronok
18:13.37IriX64err firefox
18:14.34brlcadwoot, that actually lets it work all the way down to 655 :-)
18:14.44MinuteElectron:D
18:14.53IriX64minuteelectron looks same
18:15.02MinuteElectronsame?
18:15.06IriX64yes
18:15.18MinuteElectrondo a screenshot just to test please :)
18:15.37pooliobrlcad: I'd say 651, but ok :)
18:15.39brlcadpoolio: here's the end effect we're currently going for: http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/newtitle.png
18:15.45IriX64just a sec firefox first then ie ok?
18:15.48brlcadpoolio: heh, fair nuf :)
18:15.59MinuteElectronok
18:16.08pooliobrlcad: cool, I'm not sure I'm a fan of the tan navigation though
18:16.30poolioand I'd float the search box into the header instead of having it stick down
18:16.54brlcadthe color was pulled from the eagle logo frame
18:17.05poolioYeah, I still think it's ugly though :)
18:17.22poolioand if you aren't using the eagle logo in the header it doesnt really matter
18:17.27AchiestDragonhmm
18:17.46poolioi think a more purple-blue-grey theme would be better
18:17.49brlcadyeah, more just a nod to it than a reason
18:17.53poolioyeah
18:18.07brlcadwhich matched up nicely color-wise with the truck and the green
18:18.12IriX64minuteelectron, my server same.jpg both in one
18:18.27AchiestDragonnot so shure , the old logo looks a bit too military based , the new one looks like well home made
18:18.52MinuteElectronIriX64: Yeah, that is how it is meant to look.
18:19.19brlcadi'm not entirely happy with the menu itself yet, but it's something
18:19.38pooliobrlcad: mhmm. I'm really picky when it comes to web design :)
18:20.10AchiestDragonthe truck needs to have perspective turned on
18:21.13brlcadAchiestDragon: yeah, I'm actually trying to get away from the whole military feel just a little.  not loosing the logo, but pushing it out of the spotlight a little
18:21.53brlcadpoolio: you're more than welcome to tweak it or come up with another menu :)
18:22.00AchiestDragonues the old logo as a door image on the side of the truck
18:22.52IriX64brlcad: perhaps a photon map shot of havoc somewhere just to show the power inherent
18:23.13pooliobrlcad: hehe. can I do it on the clock?
18:23.50brlcadpoolio: after this summer, sure :)
18:24.15AchiestDragonyes , that i think is the problem with the new logo the effect is shows is not rendered it gives the impression that the output of brlcad will look like that
18:24.26pooliobrlcad: hehe, should I keep beset as my first priority then?
18:24.41pooliobrlcad: also, is your my.brlcad.org/tmp directory supposed to be world readable?
18:25.07brlcadAchiestDragon: by logo do you mean the title text?
18:25.18AchiestDragonno the graphics with it
18:25.34brlcadnot sure what you mean then
18:25.44brlcadI generated all the graphics from within brl-cad
18:26.18pooliobrlcad: AHAHHA. http://my.brlcad.org/tmp/endofworld.swf
18:26.37brlcadonly thing I didn't is the menu and the BRL-CAD title text .. and I could have done the title text too, but that would have been a bear to set up the same lighting hilights
18:26.53brlcadpoolio: yeah, that's great
18:26.53AchiestDragoni mean the graphis you used show the wire frame , and half transparancy , rather than a solid rnedered photon view in perspective
18:27.43brlcadit's a blend of a wireframe, an hidden line render, and a regular raytrace
18:29.13brlcadthere's actually a point for that too -- the progression of primitives on the left to more complex read geometry on the right
18:29.14pooliobrlcad: i think I might get some work done, try to figure out how to deal with all the different shapes and trees and what not
18:29.36pooliobrlcad: what shapes do you think should be implemented for starters? spheres/ellipsoids, rpp, and anything else?
18:31.57brlcadconics (tgc family), ellipsoids (ell family), planar polyhedra (arb8 family), and the torus
18:32.13brlcadthat will give most shapes
18:32.18poolioalright cool. is rpp part of the arb8 family?
18:32.22brlcadyeah
18:32.41poolioalright, and are there sub shapes for arb8 or is rpp just an alias for a specialized arb8?
18:33.05brlcadsort of an alias
18:33.29brlcadthey are stored as arb8's but are evaluated as rpps (as you can do the ray-tracing faster that way)
18:34.28MinuteElectronThat end of the world video is hilarious.
18:34.34poolioah Ok. Also I might end up working with the tcl strings for the shapes, seems like that means a lot less work for me
18:35.03brlcadjust like how the equation of an rcc (cylindrical tube) is very simple so that is used for evaluation, whereas the general equation of that shape is a truncated general cone (that is slightly more complex to evaluate)
18:37.51MinuteElectronbrlcad: I have a problem.
18:38.04MinuteElectronI am about to start doing the CSS for the navigation bar,
18:38.36MinuteElectronhowever the class identifiers could change when druapl is installed for real
18:39.16MinuteElectronand if it did the entire navigation would be ruined
18:39.27brlcadso lets do it for real then ;)
18:39.37poolioMinuteElectron: That's why God invited regex.
18:39.40brlcads/lets // ;)
18:39.44pooliobrlcad: ahahhaa :D
18:40.08MinuteElectronpoolio: ok...
18:40.17brlcadi'll just need a few bits of info from you
18:40.24MinuteElectronok...
18:41.36AchiestDragonbrlcad:   like  http://www.achiestdragon.org/index.php?title=Image:Brlcad.jpg&oldid=607
18:42.25IriX64AchiestDragon, nice, my current wallpaper :)
18:43.00IriX64AchiestDragon I think I like yours better
18:43.20AchiestDragonit shows of what can be done better than showing of the low qualaty working view
18:45.17IriX64AchiestDragon, it's too small for wallpaper, stretches out of proportion
18:46.07AchiestDragonthe width of the image is limited as it is only a section of the image on your site so not  hi res ,,
18:46.23AchiestDragonthe brlcad site that is
18:50.33IriX64AchiestDragon, my server.... Havoc.jpg
18:51.36brlcadAchiestDragon: hehe, though if you knew the setup required for that image... it's a bit more misleading than blended renderings effort-wise :)
18:52.21AchiestDragonyes
18:52.37brlcadpersonally, i'm a bit tired of that image too :)
18:52.56brlcadthough I certainly see and show it a bit more than you probably :)
18:53.31AchiestDragonbut the renderings used dont show of the realistic effect that brlcad can produce , although i tend  to aggree that that himage has been arround for some time
18:54.05AchiestDragonany user submitted image that comes close to the "realistic effect" with good detail that could be used
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18:54.44IriX64AchiestDragon, if you like mine use it everything on that site is available
18:55.06pooliooops.
18:55.27AchiestDragonthe helecopter is good but its yet another mil type image
18:55.57IriX64AchiestDragon, choose something in the example geometry or give me one :)
18:56.50IriX64AchiestDragon, the shuttle or nozzle would be great but i can't find them and am not about to purchase that program :)
18:57.24AchiestDragonhad one better , give me a few mins see if i can find the archive
18:57.31IriX64sure
19:07.26AchiestDragonhttp://www.achiestdragon.org/index.php?title=Image:Alien.png&oldid=608
19:08.10AchiestDragonit was a blender file that i exported then imported into brlcad  some time ago
19:10.58AchiestDragoni dont have the name of the original author of that but its gpl and if it was to be used it would need his name for the credits
19:15.18brlcadheh, neat picture
19:16.22IriX64AchiestDragon, thought you were going to give me geometry :)  
19:16.34AchiestDragonalot of the meshes turned into  arrays of triangles so it lost the curves on the surfaces in the export
19:26.26AchiestDragoni did this in solidworks but converted it to brlcad  ...
19:26.40AchiestDragonhttp://www.achiestdragon.org/index.php?title=Image:Rendered.png&oldid=609
19:28.35AchiestDragonbefore making this ,  http://www.whipy.demon.co.uk/robot4.jpg  
19:30.04IriX64AchiestDragon, I presume the materials are germanium and silicon :)
19:32.25IriX64artist too
19:33.22IriX64mmmm 7.6.1 my first experience was with 7.6.0
19:36.22IriX64TankCar.jpg
19:49.26brlcadAchiestDragon: hah, that's awesome
19:49.35brlcaddues it actually drive?
19:51.00AchiestDragonit needed another ideler wheel at each side to stop it sheading the tracks when turning
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20:05.51IriX64AchiestDragon, they built that from brl-cad specs?
20:06.24IriX64heh roborooter comes to mind (duck)
20:47.32IriX64AchiestDragon, maybe you can use this, it came out black though, have to play with the illumination
20:47.37IriX64http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/Geometric_Solutions_Tank_Car2.jpg
21:05.26AchiestDragonmaybe ,, do you have a raytraced output with good lighting of it
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21:16.35IriX64AchiestDragon, how bout a regular raytrace not photonmapped will that do, I can have one quickly?
21:18.48AchiestDragonthe havoc pic is good because it looks realistic , i gues theres little chance of finding something rendered to  that qualaty
21:19.11brlcadseeing havoc rendered with rise would be interesting
21:19.13AchiestDragonand ok so it took how many days to render
21:19.43poolioalright guys, i'm gonna go play some ultimate, be back later :)
21:20.33IriX64http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/GeoMetricSolutionsTankCar.png
21:20.38IriX64days?
21:21.10IriX64adrt doesn't compile here (yet:))
21:27.23AchiestDragonimeant the stryker icv      5 days on 48 X 2.4Ghz xeon's
21:28.40IriX64AchiestDragon, I saw that 8trillion rays
21:29.04brlcadthose numbers were later cut in half, fwiw
21:29.29IriX64AchiestDragon, lets do a bench, get brlcad to send me the .g file :)
21:29.46IriX64brlcad I can't imagine that
21:30.07AchiestDragonwell bot hmged and archer dont work on this pc :( so canot try atm
21:30.46IriX64I haven't played with archer yet
21:31.12AchiestDragonwas hoping archer would of been running in linux by now
21:31.24IriX64superior to mged?
21:32.07brlcadin some ways, not in others
21:32.23IriX64noted will explore later
21:32.27AchiestDragonit looked an easyer interface to use when i saw it last , ok so got to be about 2 years back
21:32.29brlcadAchiestDragon: patches welcome ;)
21:32.42brlcadI'd give just about anyone commit access if they wanted to work on it ;)
21:33.02brlcadis mostly build integration issues, not even archer issues for the most part
21:33.26brlcadit's just been low on the totem pole
21:34.02AchiestDragoni may have a go , but need to sort out my graphic card config first ,, got to remove one of the cards and get the system to boot without resorting to some od config each time
21:35.41AchiestDragontheres a matrox g200 quad head and a g550 dual head card in here , the quad card is driving 2 lcd's  and the dual just the one , but it forgets the xconfig after power on
21:36.23AchiestDragoni have to manualy edit it and restart x after each power on
21:37.29AchiestDragonalmost at the stage of doing a compleate reinstall , but sort of keep posponing it as it works fine after
21:40.32AchiestDragonalthough going to load brlcad on the windows box when i get time
21:41.26AchiestDragonmaybe later tonight
21:41.29brlcad:)
21:58.18IriX64AciestDragon, the windows archer i've experimented with
21:58.28IriX64err AchiestDragon too
22:03.21IriX64http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/Archer.png  <--- just messing around
22:05.18IriX64brlcad: does -ffast-math really make a difference, i've never experimented with speed enhancers
22:07.51brlcadexperiment
22:19.25AchiestDragonwell installed in windows
22:20.08AchiestDragonnow i remeber how bad the mged command set is to remeber
22:21.36brlcadyeah, it can be a bear if you don't use it repeatedly
22:21.50brlcadwhich wouldn't be so bad, but the help facilities are teh suck too sometimes
22:22.43AchiestDragonwell at least i have a working verision installed on one macine anyway
22:23.45AchiestDragonalthough not in mood to trol though doc's tonight
22:24.35IriX64http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/mged.png  <--- this command set ;)
22:27.10poolioevenin
22:27.24SuperTazirix
22:27.36SuperTazwhat modeller is in the chackground of the archer image?
22:27.42SuperTazbackground, even
22:28.09IriX64modeller?
22:28.25SuperTazwith the wireframe in it?
22:28.44IriX64havoc and i rt'ed it
22:28.51SuperTazrt?
22:28.56IriX64raytrace
22:28.59SuperTazahhh
22:29.08SuperTazhavoc is the modeller?
22:29.14SuperTazworks with brl-cad?
22:29.26IriX64I don't know your terms explain modeller to me
22:29.46SuperTazthat which you created the model in
22:29.59SuperTazthe tool behind the rendering
22:30.02IriX64the geometry window
22:30.06SuperTazyes
22:30.08SuperTazwhat is that?
22:30.15IriX64part of archer
22:30.16brlcadthat is archer
22:30.19SuperTazahhh
22:30.20IriX64yes
22:30.32IriX64sorry for the confusion :)
22:30.34SuperTazwhere'd you get archer?
22:30.54IriX64windows binaries distribution;)
22:31.01IriX64off sourceforge
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22:31.10SuperTazoh...it's windows only?
22:31.13brlcadarcher is a refactoring of mged written predominantly by mged's primary author
22:31.15IriX64yes sorry
22:31.24pooliobrlcad: who was mged's primary author?
22:31.40brlcadhe started cleaning stuff up (starting several years ago) and after a while, he had the foundations for a new editor
22:31.47brlcadpoolio: Bob
22:31.53brlcadParker
22:32.05SuperTazahhhh
22:32.05SuperTazit's nice
22:32.05SuperTazshame it's windows only
22:32.10brlcadit's not really windows-only
22:32.15SuperTazoh?
22:32.18brlcadit's just only been released in binary form on windows
22:32.24brlcadand presently doesn't run out of CVS ;)
22:32.38brlcadbut code-wise, it'll run on windows, linux, mac, bsd, at least
22:32.51SuperTazoh
22:33.03SuperTazso, in other words...I can't run it on my mac
22:33.04brlcadjust needs some build infrastructure clean-up
22:33.06SuperTazbecause it won't build
22:33.10brlcadright
22:33.16brlcadactually, it builds
22:33.17SuperTazwell poop
22:33.27SuperTazit just won't run?
22:33.28brlcadbut it will complain at run-time about not finding some resource library it needs
22:33.31brlcadpath problem
22:33.34SuperTazahhh
22:33.39brlcadlooking in the wrong place
22:33.53SuperTazis it fixable?
22:34.31brlcadinfinitely
22:34.47SuperTazI'm just asking because I would like something a little smoother than vanilla mged
22:35.10SuperTazcan't find archer on sourceforge
22:35.26brlcadit's still not meant to be a full-blown mged replacement, missing lots of commands you'd eventually want
22:35.51SuperTazyeah, but it looks pretty decent for rapid prototyping
22:36.04brlcadbob gets to play with it mostly in his spare time, mostly good as a viewer at this point
22:36.06SuperTazlooks nice and user-friendly
22:36.10IriX64unix archer is part of cvs
22:36.10SuperTazoh
22:36.13SuperTazbah
22:36.13brlcadit's a lot more friendly
22:36.29brlcadit can do editing, but I"m just saying that it's far from "done"
22:36.32SuperTazI just need something friendly to design geometry in
22:36.42SuperTazmged is not friendly, thus far
22:36.49SuperTazof course, I'm a n00b to mged
22:36.53IriX64how so?
22:36.55brlcadfar from replacing even a 10% of what mged does feature-wise
22:37.17brlcadthough what it does, it generally does better
22:37.22poolioSuperTaz: mged isn't that hard to learn. Take some time and read through the tutorials online
22:37.27brlcadreally just needs some loving care and attention
22:37.34SuperTazI have the tutorials
22:37.46SuperTazI just have to have the time to go through them
22:38.01IriX64SuperTaz you can create many of the standard primitives from the gui
22:38.03brlcadtherein being the crux of the problem ;)
22:38.07SuperTazand it'd be nice to have a nicer interface
22:38.21SuperTazI'd take an Alias 6 interface
22:38.27brlcadthere are other efforts also under way for a better interface
22:38.31SuperTazor an explore interface
22:38.39brlcadfor which archer is in the right direction, but not on the same path
22:38.47SuperTaz*nod*
22:39.07SuperTazeven the original softimage interface would be fine
22:40.07SuperTazthough I wasn't a huge fan of it...I preferred alias and explore...they used very little real estate for buttons and menus, but made it all available via context menu (explore) or via a single mode/button set (alias)
22:40.09brlcadit's a shame that mged's interface is so difficult (and ugly), because feature-wise, it does it a major disservice -- there are lots of things you can do in brl-cad that really are better than just about every other package
22:40.26SuperTaz*nod*
22:40.33SuperTazI like its maturity
22:40.41SuperTazbut the interface is poo
22:40.44brlcad:)
22:40.47SuperTazI've used a bunch of modellers
22:40.52SuperTazsome nearly as mature
22:41.02SuperTazand they all have better interfaces
22:41.51brlcadthey all have had entirely different development lifelines and budgets too ;)
22:42.10SuperTazof course :)
22:42.12brlcadit wasn't really until brl-cad became open source that the interface became that much of an issue
22:42.13IriX64http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/Test.png <---- this took seconds
22:42.27SuperTazbut the military and then a commercial organization developed brl-cad
22:42.47brlcadcommercial org?
22:43.08WindowsDragonwell here goes nothing , brb on other machine soon holefully
22:43.13SuperTazyou'd think they'd have made an interface that was at least semi-user friendly
22:43.20brlcadit's never been unilaterally developed by a commercial org -- closest would have been GSI in the 90's but even their work was a partnership
22:43.25SuperTazbrl: didn't it it go private?
22:43.30brlcadnope
22:43.37SuperTazoh...I thought GSI owned it for that period
22:43.46SuperTazunder contract to the gov't
22:43.54SuperTazdidn't realize it was a partnership
22:44.11SuperTazcause I thought they made it commercially available in that period?
22:44.13brlcadno no, it's always remained under active development since it started
22:44.27brlcadyou might be thinking of SURVICE Engineering
22:44.46brlcadas they provide commercial _support_ and have done so for many years
22:44.54brlcadyou could buy a copy or brl-cad, and it'd come from them
22:45.05brlcadbut it was the same version that we were making
22:45.10SuperTazanyway, in 20+ years of development, you'd think it would have gotten an intuitive view menu, a sensible default view (X Y Z perspective)
22:45.15SuperTazand a couple of other things
22:45.22brlcadthey just built the binaries and put them on a disc for you
22:45.27SuperTazahhh
22:45.36SuperTazI thought they also did some active development, too
22:45.37brlcadalong with nice printed manuals and guaranteed support staff for answering your questiongs
22:46.07brlcadthey do some development, still do even, but they participate just like anyone else in the open source arena now
22:46.25SuperTaz*nod*
22:46.30SuperTazwell, that's good, at least
22:46.42brlcadsurvice basically paid bob to work on archer for a couple years non-stop
22:46.43SuperTazanyway, I'm sure it's possible to get it to look better
22:46.49brlcadthat's why it got as far as it did
22:46.49SuperTazahhh...nice
22:47.01brlcadthen they needed him on some other things
22:47.09IriX64SuperTaz, do you want me to upload these binaries since you can't find them?
22:47.26SuperTazirix: won't help me any...this is a mac :)
22:47.27brlcadSuperTaz: he meant for Mac, so probably not :)
22:47.33IriX64ahh
22:47.45IriX64:)
22:48.29brlcadSuperTaz: you would think that a better interface would have cropped up, but the domain and demands of what everyone needs *right now* always overrule
22:48.33SuperTazcan't remember the shell command to start x on a mac
22:48.47SuperTazbrlcad: yeah, often the reality
22:49.13brlcadthat is, the folks that pay for new development don't care if it's pretty or even if it's easy to use, so long as it can get the job done (which mged does splendidly most of the time)
22:49.16SuperTazbrlcad: sadly, it's been proven that a good interface makes for much more time
22:49.20brlcadopen -a X11
22:49.24SuperTaz*nod*
22:49.42SuperTazahhh
22:49.46SuperTazthanks
22:49.49brlcadSuperTaz: oh, I know .. but saying it's proven doesn't pay for the new interface ;)
22:50.03SuperTazI think I was thinking of a different command, but that works ;)
22:50.19brlcadno matter how many times you say it, how many graphs and time studies you do -- they need/want other features and time is limited
22:50.25brlcadso it's up to the open source community really
22:50.44brlcadwhere the economics go out the window mostly :)
22:51.01SuperTazand then they'll rebundle it and make a killing ;)
22:52.18brlcadnah, at worst, they'd be like the gforgegroup is to gforge or like redhat is to the linux kernel -- a distributor for something that you can get for free, available for folks that want to pay for guaranteed support
22:52.41SuperTazis brl-cad gpl?
22:52.44SuperTazthought it was bsd?
22:52.47brlcadlgpl and bsd
22:52.54SuperTaz*nod*
22:53.02brlcadmost of the code is lgpl
22:53.05SuperTazso they can sell it for as much as they'd like :)
22:53.26SuperTazand add their own customizations around it :)
22:53.27brlcadbuild infrastructure, docs, data resources, and some other portions like the benchmark suite are bsd
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22:54.01brlcadthat they could and so could you
22:54.36brlcadthey wouldn't do anything in bad faith, though, they're a pretty good group
22:55.19brlcadand they'd sure as heck not want to risk any bad relationship with the gov't, they know who their daddy is
22:55.26SuperTazokay...slowly fighting my way into the gui
22:55.45SuperTaz*nod*
22:55.58SuperTazand yes, I know I could take it and spruce up the gui and sell it
22:56.21SuperTazif I did that, though, a) I'd need some customers and b) I'd still contribute back ;)
22:56.57IriX64SuperTaz, I just plat want my code, maybe you can make a killing with it :)
22:57.02brlcadyou'd be obligated for most of the code, only your enhancements that weren't integrated would be yours to share or not
22:57.02IriX64play not plat
22:57.54SuperTazbrlcad: yeah
22:58.01SuperTazbrlcad: not that I'm about to do so :)
22:58.45SuperTazbrlcad: but you can always do things like build a plugin harness that's lgpl, and then create plugins that are closed source or restricted distribution, etc.
22:59.30SuperTazi.e. make the plugins GPL and distribute a commercial version of them as well (optimized and/or otherwise fortified)
22:59.55SuperTazand then you just disallow commercial distribution of the plugins
23:00.02SuperTazthere are other licenses, too...
23:00.05SuperTaz*shrug*
23:00.29brlcadyeah, just not likely worth the effort and bad publicity if they didn't get a nod that it was okay beforehand
23:00.30SuperTazthe MySQL and Postgres model works pretty well...it allows them to pay developers AND leverage the community
23:01.38brlcad"pretty well" minus a little political backlash to the purists
23:01.44pooliomuahaha. beset shall be closed source ;)
23:01.51SuperTazso?
23:01.59SuperTazthe purists are great in theory
23:02.18brlcadmore the poison aspects
23:02.20SuperTazbut you just see what happens if no one is paying for any software
23:02.42SuperTazI love open source
23:02.47SuperTazdon't get me wrong
23:02.58SuperTazI've contributed to several projects :)
23:03.22SuperTazbut...commercial interests drive a LOT of open source innovation
23:03.51brlcadit does, though commercial only tends to do so when it serves their financial goals in politically tactful ways
23:04.14SuperTazsure
23:04.40SuperTazbut meeting customer demands (the users) is what makes sense for them financially (usually)
23:04.52brlcadstill mostly moot for brl-cad -- the CAD industry is *already* a massive multi-billion dollar industry that takes utterly *massive* development capital just to get a basic functioning toolset
23:05.44SuperTazyes, but brl-cad would probably have some decent market share if it had a more intuitive interface :)
23:06.07brlcadwe're the farthest out there by a really long ways, with a funding source, and we're still way behind in many aspects -- entire massive domains we don't cater to (ECAD, MCAD, CADD, ..) well and features that one would expect outright of commercial (a reasonable gui)
23:06.15SuperTaz(sorry if I'm slow here...rebuilding my keyboard while we speak)
23:06.29brlcadyep, mged's interface is by far the biggest detriment to our progress at this point
23:06.53SuperTazyes...it's be quite commercially viable with a solid interface
23:07.00SuperTazit's, even :)
23:07.17brlcadthat's why I'm looking to spark more development interest by getting talented students involved in making a new interfaces, new tools
23:07.28SuperTazyeah, that'd be good
23:07.32brlcadopen source community will follow once the gui is in place, just not readily beforehand
23:07.35SuperTazare you in academia?
23:07.58SuperTazyes...that's the thing...the open source community cares about gui for these things :)
23:08.17brlcadwe have long ties to several big groups in academia, particularly computer graphics
23:08.54SuperTazthat's good
23:09.06AchiestDragonok now back to only one graphics card in this machine , still got big bug with mged , is this documented with a workarround or do i need to file a bug report
23:09.17SuperTazI could maybe get the depaul crowd interested...I'd have to figure out who to talk to, though
23:09.46brlcadUNC chapel hill, Hopkins, UUtah, Texas A&M, UDel, .. a lot of BRL-CAD's early design and development days were in tight collaboration with active research (and even today, there is some still going on)
23:09.53SuperTazthey're awfully microsoft oriented overall, but they have an okay HCI program, and this'd be up their alley
23:09.54AchiestDragonon a multihad display the frame buffer only works with the windows on one monitor
23:10.52pooliobrlcad: anything from CMU?
23:10.53brlcadi would have *loved* to have known about BRL-CAD when I was taking computer graphics and other computer science courses in college
23:11.02SuperTazokay... no delete key now, either :P
23:11.14SuperTazI'd really better be careful what I type ;)
23:12.21brlcadpoolio: yes actually
23:12.44SuperTazI think that the problem here is less that the keyboard is dirty and more that kensington just didn't design it all that well
23:12.48brlcadiirc, he was a summer hire who later became a core developer for many years
23:13.02pooliobrlcad: ah sweet
23:13.22SuperTazhrmm...at least I have an enter key again ;)
23:14.03brlcadpoolio: in that case, though, it was with the student, not with CMU faculty -- I don't think we have ties to anyone in their faculty bstaff right now
23:15.00brlcadthe schools a listed were a subset of those where we actually worked with faculty too, on research or development
23:15.36brlcadthere have certainly been other schools
23:15.40poolioah cool
23:15.56pooliobrlcad: are you trying to recruit people out of college now?
23:16.22SuperTazit's the distinction between working with a student and a school
23:16.36SuperTazbrl...who do you actually work for? :)
23:17.22brlcadpoolio: out of anywhere really, just need the passion, background, and interest ;)
23:17.27AchiestDragonie like this shows   http://www.achiestdragon.org/index.php?title=Image:Snap.jpg&oldid=610     it works on the righthand monitor only
23:17.39pooliobrlcad: hehe yeah.
23:24.06brlcadAchiestDragon: heh, I think I noticed that a long while back too
23:24.20brlcadthat's "probably" a Tk issue, but hard to say
23:24.46AchiestDragonmaybe , i am using kde and it can be  a bit odd sometimes on framebuffer issues
23:25.08AchiestDragonodd that its working on one monitor though
23:25.25AchiestDragonand all on the same card
23:26.24AchiestDragonthink i am still going to have to reinstall linux as it does not seem ot have cleared the other issue
23:26.38AchiestDragonthat may be part of the problem though
23:33.35AchiestDragonho thats a point ,  on the gui , maybe it would be posible to write a qt4 frontends for the gui ,  you do know the new qt4 licence allows for gpl code  to be compiled for all supported o/s's
23:34.06AchiestDragonso that should make it a bit easyer to do the crossplatform gui mods
23:34.28AchiestDragon<PROTECTED>
23:36.31AchiestDragontheres talk that most kde apps will get ported to windows when the qt4 port of kde is done
23:36.53AchiestDragonand mac . and a few other o/s's
23:38.30brlcadAchiestDragon: it's come up *lots* of times .. opens the whole qt vs gtk debate but certainly a viable approach nonetheless
23:39.29brlcadwell aware of their licensing, though gpl is actually a downside imho -- sticking to bsd/mit/lgpl style code is generally more preferred
23:40.03AchiestDragoni started to learn qt3 but stopped as qt4 was dew and may as well wait for it rathe than having to relearn  
23:40.05brlcadavoids integration and refactoring issues outright and generally keeps the purse-holders feeling a little more comfortable with themselves for some reason
23:40.54SuperTazyeah, it was interesting doing linux kernel work at motorola
23:42.08SuperTazwe got it done, though...there was a balance we had to maintain between what was open source and what was closed
23:42.16SuperTazit was interesting to say the least
23:42.20yukonbobAchiestDragon: your display issue sounds more like X than kde/gnome or a wm issue to me... depending on display properties, I've got apps that'll do that too (start mplayer on one screen and try to drag to other)... I'm using XOrg(6.x) witha MergedFB (versus Xinerama, for example) with no problems...
23:43.42AchiestDragoni think its an x issue also , as it basicaly apperears a bit odd with its own settings sometimes
23:44.31AchiestDragonnow with the 2 card setup i had the same problem with xine only displaying video on the same monitor , but with 1 card it works fine on all
23:44.51AchiestDragonjust mged seems to have the same problem still
23:46.05AchiestDragoni will reinstall , but not tonight , need to be in the right mood or will get ratty
23:46.12yukonbob:)
23:48.01AchiestDragoni have been putting it off , untill the next hdd upgrade , then can just do a fresh install and copy the files over after
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