IRC log for #brlcad on 20080229

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01:20.42CIA-32BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30440 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/lib/Dm.tcl: gah, merge a fix made for 7.10.4 on the stable branch that didn't make its way back to the trunk. this fix makes the Dm class not blindly try to open :0 but instead checks what env(DISPLAY) is set to.
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04:13.03minusinskhello
04:13.23minusinskhere only english-speakers?
04:13.52louipcmostly
04:14.08minusinskno russians?
04:15.26louipcI don't think so
04:15.45minusinskBrlcad have a non-english language localisation and internationalization?
04:17.04louipchmm doesn't look like it
04:17.28minusinskIs it possible to convert the programme into other languages?
04:18.07louipcof course. it might take a lot of work though
04:18.42louipcyou'd have to patch gettext functionality in the apps or something
04:23.13minusinsksomebody need do it :)
04:23.56louipcyea :D
04:25.25louipcdocs would be better to translate first though
04:25.27minusinskwho can? Who is Master Yoda? :)
04:26.03louipcwell there are people that have the skills but are too busy doing other things
04:26.26minusinskdocs.. maybe i can in Russian, but i'm not a engeneer-constructor
04:26.43louipcdid you go to brlcad.org?
04:26.55minusinskyeah, i did
04:26.55louipcthere are pdfs there
04:27.16minusinskpdf is not good for edit
04:27.27louipc... there are also manpages when you install the program
04:27.36minusinskodf is more better
04:27.48louipcodf eh?
04:28.02louipcminusinsk: well some people are trying to convert everything to docbook
04:28.10louipcxml
04:28.18minusinskOpen Document Format ISO/IEC 26300
04:28.22louipcah
04:28.37minusinskit's xml too
04:29.34louipcit's not really meant for conversion to different formats though eh?
04:30.51minusinskOpenOffice have a many formats for export from odf
04:33.25louipccool
04:37.49minusinskexport to BibTeX, LaTeX2, mediaWiki, pdf, and much more office formats
04:38.34minusinskok, i will try translate docs from pdf to odf and translete them
04:38.49louipccool!
04:38.49minusinskin my language
04:39.00louipcthat's a huge task
04:39.04minusinskit's first
04:39.32minusinskafter that need support UTF-8 for Brlcad
04:39.44minusinskit's jobfor programmers
04:39.56louipcyep
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05:13.37yukonbobminusinsk: BRL-CAD might already have support, depending on how it's necessary... Tcl was one of the first (the first?) cross-platform languages w/ UTF support, and has good i18n support...
05:19.36minusinski'm remember that UTF-8 is in TCL/TK only few time
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05:23.00yukonbobminusinsk: there are also two large documents converted to DocBook format... you can retrieve them via svn (not sure if they're shipping in any distribution)... DocBook is the format that the project is using for the documentation.
05:23.53minusinskok, i can imported them
05:24.39starseekerI would suggest first translating the text (which you should be able to get out of the pdf) and then integrating that with the docbook markup once it becomes available
05:24.50yukonbob~cadsvn
05:24.51ibotTo obtain BRL-CAD from Subversion: svn checkout https://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk brlcad
05:25.09minusinsktnx
05:25.26yukonbobhey starseeker
05:25.30starseekerhowdy :-)
05:26.01louipcyukonbob: those pdfs are all done !?
05:26.07louipcI mean to docbook
05:26.13starseekernot yet
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05:26.27louipcah I was going to say nice job yo!
05:26.41starseekerIIRC, vol 4 is pretty far along, vol 2 is (sort of) started and vol 3 is on the todo list
05:26.46yukonboblouipc: no -- I've done volume iv, starseeker did one(?), and there's more to do... we had a _big_ push a whlie ago, but nothing lately :)
05:26.51louipcvol2 is a doosie
05:27.29starseekerNow that I'm getting more docbook and tool experience (xmlto + fop = goodness)
05:27.39starseekerI SHOULD be able to better convert vol2
05:28.06starseekerMuch of the markup in vol2 will probably need to be re-done, but it's a start
05:28.56yukonbobstarseeker: what kind of data?
05:29.10starseekerUS Geologic Survey geologic information
05:29.44starseekerOddly enough, there seems to be some halfway decent DLG stuff
05:29.53starseekerwhich will take forever and a day to download...
05:30.35starseekerI had to ignore a robot file, which meant I'm throttling the download speed down to next to nothing so as not to annoy anyone
05:30.49starseekerDigital Line graph
05:30.50yukonbobhrm -- http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/2339246
05:31.46starseekerThat's "it's too unstable for just anyone to use, so we'll hammer on it and at the same time get good App performance for Apple apps."
05:32.10starseekerUnlike MS, there is a quasi-realistic hope that Apple's software will achieve stability inside the decade...
05:32.45yukonbobstarseeker: re DLG -- what are you using it for?
05:33.06starseekeryukonbob:  Nothing in particular at the moment - might try giving GRASS a workout
05:33.07louipchehe
05:34.00starseekeryukonbob:  All sorts of neat Google-like map visualizations that might be tried, given proper tool knowledge
05:34.20starseekeryukonbob:  Not remotely BRL-CAD related though...
05:36.48brlcadyukonbob: read the comment from David Hyatt
05:37.15brlcadit's really a stupid /. posting, sensationalist crap
05:37.31brlcadthere's more down in the /. comments
05:39.59starseekerbrlcad:  Just curious - has anyone ever tried doing anything with BRL-CAD + GIS data?
05:40.34starseeker+ BRL-CAD?
05:41.17brlcadDSP is a brl-cad primitive type
05:41.21brlcadso yes :)
05:41.27yukonbobyup -- DSP == displacement map in BRL-CAD... DEM = digital elevation model
05:41.32brlcadhttp://my.brlcad.org/tmp/puget01.png is an example
05:41.37starseekerer...
05:41.51starseekers/?/!
05:42.09starseekerThat's cool
05:42.13brlcadthat's the high-res puget de data
05:43.25starseekerWhat DEM # corresponds to that high res?  
05:43.31brlcadthat's the 16k x 16k data from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/large_models/ps.html
05:44.20brlcadwhere they'd already extracted from dem, conveniently in a format nearly ideal for dsp
05:44.40brlcadshoulda applied the texture too, but was just playing around
05:44.47yukonbobstarseeker: there's other info that could be used easily -- for example, png "height shade" images (I believe that's what they're called) -- _not_ to be confused w/ "shade slope" models, though, which might look the same at first glance...
05:45.32yukonbobbrlcad: any luck tracking that mem leak wrt dsp?
05:49.45brlcadhaven't looked at it :(
05:49.51brlcadbut keep kicking me, I will
05:50.17yukonbob:)
05:51.54biketronanyone have any luck using brl-cad on mac osx leopard?
05:53.03brlcadbiketron: the X11 server in leopard is busted ..
05:53.53biketronugh..
05:53.59brlcadapple's got a fix in the works, but it was outright broken when they switched to X.org's R7
05:55.09biketroneta on the fix?
05:57.16yukonbobas soon as it's finished, but no sooner?
05:57.46biketron:)
05:58.10yukonbob:)
05:58.59yukonbobis it reasonable to (temporarily?) install X from fink or similar? (Some Mac-head can comment whether that even really makes sense)...
05:59.34louipcmac ports?
05:59.54yukonbobya -- whatever -- as long as you can use X w/o clobbering the 'native' install...
05:59.56louipchttp://www.macports.org/
06:00.14louipcI don't know anything about mac *shrug*
06:03.49yukonbobnothing to know. Push the single button mouse and your screen smiles at you.  Mac folks are easy to amuse.
06:14.24brlcadyukonbob: i don't know of anyone that has tried and I don't have easy access to 10.5 atm
06:16.46brlcad10.4's X11 works just fine ;)
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10:08.03cad76hello i would like to ask how to start the program after instalation?
10:08.21clock_cad76: mged
10:08.56clock_actually better mged test.g otherwise it will yell it doesn't have any database open when you try to create some body
10:11.54cad76terminal says - command not found
10:12.13clock_updatedb
10:12.15clock_locate mged
10:15.20cad76i will try to reinstall :)
10:16.27cad76thank you
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10:37.58Axman6clock_: isn't it nice when people listen to you?
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15:09.51``Erikheh
15:32.07``ErikGive a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. But light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
15:36.09elite01hehe :)
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17:42.53brlcadc'mon baby light my fire
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21:05.40CIA-32BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r30441 10/brlcad/trunk/ (7 files in 5 dirs): Add -d option to MGED tree command for limiting depth of tree printing.
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