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| 01:02.21 | ``Erik | bakes dinner and watches futurama |
| 01:30.56 | yukonbob | afternoon, cadheads |
| 01:41.17 | jonored | finds the implementation of what he just derived in amongst the openNURBS code, and facepalms. |
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| 02:56.14 | brlcad | jonored: hehe |
| 03:01.26 | brlcad | though have to actually look at the implementation -- some functions they define (and have implemented in their commercial API product), but don't actually have an implementation |
| 03:07.59 | jonored | The implementation looks about like what I was headed at. |
| 03:12.39 | brlcad | cool |
| 03:13.03 | brlcad | that's frustrating but also releiving to find things like that |
| 03:13.24 | brlcad | like working through a hard math problem, only to realize it's in the answer key in the back and you got it right |
| 03:13.32 | jonored | ON_EvPrincipalCurvatures in opennurbs_math.cpp - it looks plausible that it's doing what it should, I haven't checked for exact equivalence but it would be surprising. |
| 03:14.28 | jonored | I've gotten a chunk more of an idea how to approach issues of applied differential geometry, at least :) |
| 03:14.47 | jonored | (er, would be surprising to have that much and not doing its job.) |
| 03:35.16 | ``Erik | yowza, both daily show and colbert report are on a roll concerning the "teabaggers" |
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| 07:21.22 | Ralith | Sir Morrison |
| 07:21.23 | Ralith | hehe |
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| 08:27.24 | _pseudo | irc on my ipod! |
| 08:27.42 | pacman87 | ^^ that's me, btw |
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| 08:30.16 | _pseudo_ | unstable app + unstable wireless |
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| 09:14.11 | pacman87 | ssh + screen + irssi would be a much better solution |
| 09:16.26 | archivist | unstable wireless should be killed at birth |
| 10:24.33 | d-lo | yawns. |
| 10:24.39 | d-lo | Morning all! |
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| 11:11.55 | d-lo | hahahaha: http://www.rpgjunction.com/verizon_cheque.jpg-48.html |
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| 11:51.54 | brlcad | a check for 0.002, funny |
| 11:56.06 | archivist | I like the cursor magnifier on that page |
| 12:26.44 | brlcad | good answer |
| 12:26.47 | brlcad | (dave) |
| 12:29.07 | d-lo | still trying to get the hang of this Politically Correct talk ;) But thanks. |
| 12:38.10 | ``Erik | allows js for that page... yes, a reasonably neat trick |
| 12:39.02 | ``Erik | wait, isn't randall monroe the guy who does xkcd? |
| 12:39.56 | d-lo | sure looks like it. |
| 12:40.12 | archivist | a google sez yes |
| 12:45.17 | d-lo | ``Erik: how many astros you got now? 15 |
| 12:48.18 | hippieindamakin8 | pacman87, some of the people i know run irssi on this small device called pogoplug using ssh+screen |
| 12:48.27 | ``Erik | 15 on epsi, 9 on fenix |
| 12:48.47 | ``Erik | my two new epsi astros are throwing up pringles and have no spaceports and eco's in the 70's |
| 12:48.56 | ``Erik | plus a few dn's and some ft cloud over them |
| 12:49.10 | ``Erik | NOT profitable targets :D |
| 12:49.37 | d-lo | niceness. |
| 12:50.09 | ``Erik | this exercise needs to happen, I have two planets with empty production queues that can churn out levis |
| 12:50.13 | d-lo | was poking around on the epsi site last night and saw your 4K econ. Nice :) |
| 12:50.25 | d-lo | what excersize? |
| 12:50.39 | ``Erik | um, the big gathering in 81 to go jack with anti |
| 12:51.13 | ``Erik | after thte slz crash, we got a nap with just about every 'superpower' we're not friends with heh, but anti has been hitting the newbs left and right |
| 12:51.15 | d-lo | only been back in the saddle for 2 days now. :) |
| 12:54.09 | d-lo | when is the 81ex going to launch? |
| 13:05.37 | brlcad | so what level are you two up to? |
| 13:05.58 | d-lo | as in player level? 54 i think. |
| 13:06.59 | d-lo | brlcad: you still playing? |
| 13:07.09 | brlcad | sorta |
| 13:07.24 | brlcad | i keep it going, slowly build up |
| 13:08.15 | d-lo | cool. I got the impression that you quit out of bordom |
| 13:08.52 | brlcad | pretty well fortified now, fewer and fewer pot shots |
| 13:09.19 | d-lo | guildless still working out for ya I see :) |
| 13:09.25 | brlcad | pretty well |
| 13:09.42 | brlcad | and a few guilds that protect me |
| 13:14.01 | d-lo | ... how is the ogre library in rt^3 compiled? I don't see how.... |
| 13:16.41 | d-lo | nm |
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| 13:24.08 | ``Erik | pixie dust |
| 13:24.21 | d-lo | just about :) |
| 13:24.22 | ``Erik | I've scrapped some big fleet in gate crashes, so I'm down to 50ish |
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| 13:25.33 | ``Erik | the game has become more of a combination of espionage against a possible future competitor and establishing a network of friends to sucker into seeding a new userbase for me |
| 13:25.35 | ``Erik | O:-) |
| 13:25.39 | ``Erik | practices his evil laugh some |
| 13:25.45 | starseeker | jeez that was weird |
| 13:25.56 | starseeker | has apparently been knocked off for 2 days |
| 13:26.17 | starseeker | mutter... |
| 13:26.23 | starseeker | where do we stash the archives again? |
| 13:27.04 | ``Erik | archives of what? |
| 13:27.09 | starseeker | irc chats |
| 13:27.51 | ``Erik | google tells me http://ibot.rikers.org/%23brlcad/ |
| 13:28.27 | d-lo | ``Erik: are you saying that you have started work on your game? |
| 13:28.29 | starseeker | scowls at google for not telling him that |
| 13:28.56 | ``Erik | planning, coding toy apps to verify knowledge |
| 13:29.07 | starseeker | bookmarks it this time |
| 13:37.23 | starseeker | glares at the cat, who is mistaking the living room for a race track |
| 13:37.46 | d-lo | better a racetrack than a litterbox! |
| 13:39.09 | madant | ~help |
| 13:39.14 | ``Erik | give it a potato http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=nkHBuh21AMg |
| 13:40.23 | archivist | heh on the same trak as me ``Erik I just been watching that kitteh |
| 13:40.48 | ``Erik | in ur intarwebz, steelin' ur branewavez |
| 13:42.20 | brlcad | ~logs |
| 13:42.21 | ibot | All conversations are logged to http://ibot.rikers.org/channel, where "channel" is replaced by the URL-encoded channel name, such as %23freenode for #freenode. Lines starting with spaces are not logged. |
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| 15:09.40 | d-lo | d_rossberg: are you around? |
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| 15:22.31 | d_rossberg | d-lo: partial, i'm writing a reply to your brlcad-devel mail |
| 15:22.45 | d-lo | kk, thats what I was going to ask about :) |
| 16:18.16 | brlcad | responds, open to talk here or list in follow-up |
| 16:18.56 | brlcad | sounds like there's a disconnect about what the goals of the GS actually are |
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| 16:29.13 | d_rossberg | brlcad: i looked at the GE header files in rt^3, they are different from what i did |
| 16:29.35 | d_rossberg | they have even few in common from what i did in the core interfac |
| 16:31.34 | d_rossberg | maybe GE should be defined more precisely before this can be decided finally |
| 16:31.54 | d_rossberg | (this was the conclusion of 1)) |
| 16:33.16 | brlcad | d_rossberg: that GE files are very much a work-in-progress -- several of the classes there belong over in the GS, not the GE, for example |
| 16:33.37 | d_rossberg | this could be the point |
| 16:33.45 | brlcad | all that is left is a few geometry object classes |
| 16:33.55 | brlcad | and that overlaps very much with what you've done |
| 16:34.13 | brlcad | your classes are more in-line with the direction it still needs to go regardless |
| 16:34.23 | d_rossberg | and many of them are already in work (the object classes) |
| 16:34.36 | brlcad | you mean in core? |
| 16:36.41 | d_rossberg | the cone, torus etc. (8 pieces) are currently in work for the core interface |
| 16:37.14 | brlcad | much of what is presently in the GE dir was worked out primarily as a means to sort out what the GS needed to accomplish its task, some stubbed, some that needed to be in GS but was put into GE, it's not actually all been "sorted out" -- the emphasis was on the GS |
| 16:37.44 | brlcad | so it can (and necessarily will) change, quite a bit |
| 16:38.13 | brlcad | from a design goal perspective, though, what was done in jbrlcad and what you've done in core are what GE is supposed to envelop |
| 16:38.49 | d_rossberg | you see, if i look at what i have (brlcad wiki, sources in rt^3) i have to come to the conclusion GE != coreInterface |
| 16:39.03 | d_rossberg | therefore i will wait for the changes |
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| 16:39.49 | d_rossberg | e.g. dave may show how he would like to see the coreInterface integrated into his concept of a GE |
| 16:40.39 | d_rossberg | on the other side, his top-down approach wasn't so bad |
| 16:41.29 | d_rossberg | my impression was, the the GE is a concept of how a CAD interface should look like |
| 16:42.06 | d_rossberg | then we may see how this concept can be realised with help of the core interface |
| 16:42.24 | brlcad | yeah, I think that's the biggest difference |
| 16:42.35 | brlcad | you were coming at it bottom-up, he was top-down |
| 16:43.07 | brlcad | your experience with LIBRT greatly influenced the bottom-up (and is probably why I like it so much) |
| 16:43.17 | brlcad | his top-down was mostly driven by GS requirements |
| 16:43.52 | brlcad | there's a middle ground in there somewhere I'm sure, and it's closer to LIBRT than it is to the GS.. |
| 16:45.25 | d_rossberg | is away (for some minutes) |
| 16:45.42 | brlcad | I would like to (very LONG-term) end up with an API similar to Geomis/ACIS/Solidworks, etc, but not so much mirroring their API as using our libs and requirements and building up an API that allows apps to be written that utilize the GE (for writing viewers, CAD modelers, visualization apps, etc) |
| 16:45.58 | brlcad | too, must clean house |
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| 17:46.53 | ``Erik | clean mine while you're at it |
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| 18:53.15 | ``Erik | http://www.netzgesta.de/sphere/ heh, noscript makes it look pretty stupid though :) |
| 18:54.25 | ``Erik | I do like that it has a fake "guru meditation" window that the js hides, that's nifty |
| 18:55.17 | ``Erik | eck, license suckage, though |
| 18:55.28 | d-lo | yeah saw that. |
| 18:55.39 | d-lo | but hey, hack hac hack. |
| 18:57.22 | ``Erik | hm, 'onmousemove' is nifty, it's vrry fast on osX ff |
| 19:05.21 | d-lo | ``Erik: email sent! |
| 19:06.28 | ``Erik | w00t |
| 19:08.43 | B_wooster | is sorry for the spam |
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| 19:58.13 | ``Erik | has another lowhanging fruit idea for people new to BRL-CAD development and looking for a tiny project |
| 19:58.46 | ``Erik | opendb -r myfile.g for forcing a read-only open (even if the file permissions allow write) |
| 19:59.44 | ``Erik | (and a read-only checkbox in the db open dialog) |
| 20:09.13 | jonored_ | Is there somewhere I can grab a nurbs object to test this with? I can't seem to find the .g files for the test cases shown at http://brlcad.org/wiki/BREP_Primitive and would like to see whether I'm getting plausible curvatures out... |
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| 20:56.18 | dreeves3 | jonored hang on I will tell you where you can get the .g file |
| 20:57.20 | dreeves3 | http://bzflag.bz/~starseeker/nurbs_test.g |
| 20:57.30 | dreeves3 | jonored_^^^^^ |
| 20:58.07 | dreeves3 | open nurbs is giving good curvatures....What are you working on? |
| 21:00.40 | brlcad | notes that should be http://bzflag.bz/~starseeker/nurbs_tests.g |
| 21:02.18 | CIA-28 | BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r1418 10/wiki/BREP_Primitive: /* Current Images of test cases */ link to the test geometry |
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| 21:25.20 | jonored_ | dreeves2: Oh, did you already get rt_brep_curve done and just not have it in the repo? |
| 21:26.49 | brlcad | I think he just meant in general |
| 21:27.03 | brlcad | curve() and norm() are still unimplemented afaik |
| 21:32.15 | jonored_ | Actually, I'm pretty sure that the proper implementation of norm given the current implementation of shot /is/ an empty method. It looks (at least to me) that shot is filling it in already. |
| 21:32.44 | brlcad | shot does a guess based on the hit point and ray direction if the primitive did nothing |
| 21:32.53 | brlcad | if that's the right answer, the primitive should still do that work |
| 21:38.02 | jonored_ | I mean that rt_brep_shot is setting hit_normal already - looks to me like it's getting the information as part of finding the point anyhow, so might as well keep it. |
| 22:04.15 | brlcad | hmm |
| 22:04.22 | Ralith | afternoon all |
| 22:04.28 | Ralith | how goes, jonored_? |
| 22:08.23 | jonored_ | Not bad. Heading out soon, though. |
| 22:08.40 | starseeker | ooo - http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab@Home:Model_1_Bill_of_Materials#Full_System_CAD_Files |
| 22:10.05 | brlcad | starseeker: heh, interesting find |
| 22:10.30 | starseeker | adds it to his archive of open cad goodies |
| 22:10.49 | starseeker | will need to get ahold of a working Solidworks to properly convert it though |
| 22:10.54 | brlcad | good set of test cases if someone works on the sldprt converter |
| 22:11.18 | brlcad | ah, they provide conversions already too |
| 22:11.35 | brlcad | for at least one of them |
| 22:12.12 | starseeker | nods |
| 22:12.21 | starseeker | I don't think that's the full model though |
| 22:14.05 | brlcad | wonders if starseeker would rather be mentoring a certain (unmentionable until the 20th) applicant that is presently assigned to me given his interest |
| 22:14.12 | starseeker | the source code seems to be BSD licensed - not sure if that applies to the models... |
| 22:14.15 | starseeker | checks |
| 22:14.32 | starseeker | ah |
| 22:14.44 | brlcad | kinda right up your alley :) |
| 22:14.44 | starseeker | yeah, that might work |
| 22:15.05 | brlcad | related to GS priority too |
| 22:15.17 | brlcad | (loosely) |
| 22:15.19 | starseeker | is just a sucker for nice purty screenshots of sophisticated models in BRL-CAD ;-) |
| 22:15.46 | starseeker | not to mention the test case angle |
| 22:16.24 | Ralith | pretty pictures are always great fun. |
| 22:16.36 | brlcad | I think it would be awesome if you could just upload an unspecified file to a site and have it give you a sheet of information about it -- objects in the file, types, conversions to other formats, various automatic renderings |
| 22:16.55 | Ralith | mightn't that be a pretty big CPU load? |
| 22:17.02 | Ralith | I suppose heavy use of nice would render that moot |
| 22:17.02 | brlcad | so queue it up |
| 22:17.21 | Ralith | I'd just be concerned about scalability if it got popular |
| 22:17.30 | starseeker | brlcad: that only works for non-commercial formats though |
| 22:17.40 | Ralith | not hard to distribute, though. |
| 22:17.40 | starseeker | proe/solidworks/etc. are a no-go |
| 22:17.47 | brlcad | starseeker: not necessarily |
| 22:17.51 | starseeker | blinks |
| 22:17.52 | brlcad | exporting sure |
| 22:17.56 | Ralith | starseeker: why? patents? |
| 22:17.56 | brlcad | but not importing |
| 22:18.06 | brlcad | that's just up to our ability to read/write them |
| 22:18.06 | starseeker | Ralith: file format parsing |
| 22:18.08 | jonored_ | Would look kind of like thingiverse.com but doing more? |
| 22:18.20 | brlcad | sldprt is a published spec iirc -- that's why it's on my list |
| 22:18.31 | starseeker | oh - solidworks part? |
| 22:18.33 | brlcad | sltprt/sldasm files are like iges |
| 22:18.51 | brlcad | complex support but easily parsed |
| 22:18.56 | starseeker | nods |
| 22:19.09 | brlcad | someone motivated could probably whip something up in a really short amount of time |
| 22:19.15 | starseeker | I was sure Pro-E was a non-starter though? |
| 22:19.44 | brlcad | jonored_: interesting, hadn't heard of them |
| 22:20.17 | brlcad | depends -- it is possible, but it'd take more development effort |
| 22:20.28 | starseeker | (actually, can't take credit for finding the fab@home models - emailed and asked ;-) |
| 22:20.37 | brlcad | the converter we have wasn't made to be stand-alone -- it was made to be a pro/e plugin |
| 22:20.56 | starseeker | right |
| 22:20.57 | brlcad | but the unigraphics converter, for example, was similarly designed but is stand-alone |
| 22:21.23 | starseeker | either way though, I'd have thought licensing restrictions would put the kabosh on wholesale conversions like that |
| 22:21.30 | brlcad | their libraries allow linkage and redistribution after you go through some horribly absurd locking/unlocking process |
| 22:21.51 | starseeker | blinks |
| 22:22.36 | brlcad | it's a lot easier to explain by going through the process but basically (at least for unigraphics/nx) you link up your exporter against their libraries and it works just fine for your licensed system |
| 22:22.42 | brlcad | but it won't work anywhere else |
| 22:22.52 | starseeker | ah |
| 22:22.58 | brlcad | then there's another "unlock" step that you apply to your binary |
| 22:23.15 | brlcad | takes about a half-hour (and has nothing to do with cpu time) |
| 22:23.26 | brlcad | then that binary will work anywhere |
| 22:23.37 | starseeker | interesting |
| 22:23.54 | brlcad | that's how we used to distribute it .. and one we should get around to updating and getting working again next time someone needs to poke NX |
| 22:26.25 | brlcad | jonored_: yeah, looks sort of similar to thingiverse but little more focus on the models and model data itself and less/no focus on what it's used for |
| 22:30.14 | brlcad | wonders if that is a rails app |
| 22:32.16 | jonored_ | doesn't know how they've got that set up, but it's associated with the reprap crowd. |
| 22:32.28 | brlcad | nods |
| 22:32.52 | brlcad | understandable, strong focus on rapid prototyping and machining |
| 22:33.08 | brlcad | cool, http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:249 |
| 22:33.42 | Ralith | yeah, it's zach's |
| 22:34.30 | starseeker | hmm - stl |
| 22:34.47 | Ralith | everything reprap is stl right now. |
| 22:34.52 | Ralith | kind of a shame |
| 22:35.20 | Ralith | in fact, it was reprap and the horrid lack of good CAD free tools that got me into CAD in the first place |
| 22:35.27 | brlcad | starseeker: if you've not seen this .. contains most of the classics: http://www.lodbook.com/models/ |
| 22:36.06 | starseeker | oo - thanks |
| 22:36.18 | starseeker | I'd see the stanford site with their models |
| 22:36.34 | Ralith | stanford seems to have a lot of small statuettes. |
| 22:36.40 | brlcad | yeah, but they also link to a bunch of other entire repositories of models |
| 22:37.14 | brlcad | Ralith: they are one of the main powerhouses that kicked off most of the research on converting laser-scan data into 3D models |
| 22:37.24 | Ralith | cool |
| 22:38.09 | brlcad | you can't go to siggraph without seeing a stanford bunny at least .. a few times |
| 22:38.25 | starseeker | hmm... not to many that sound like they're really "open source" |
| 22:38.30 | Ralith | yeah, I"ve seen that around |
| 22:39.09 | starseeker | 's favorite visual from last year was a plastic bunny getting squeezed out of a press :-) |
| 22:39.38 | hippieindamakin8 | brlcad, woah ... |
| 22:39.42 | brlcad | I'd like our model repository to specifically cater to unrestricted use copyleft style |
| 22:39.56 | starseeker | would suggest we require it |
| 22:39.56 | Ralith | is someone applying to do that? |
| 22:40.09 | brlcad | starseeker: absolutely -- it's just "how far" |
| 22:40.16 | starseeker | ah, good poing |
| 22:40.17 | starseeker | er point |
| 22:40.31 | starseeker | do my bidding, fingers! |
| 22:40.51 | brlcad | e.g. whether to allow free for any use whatsover, exept commercial use, style licenses |
| 22:41.01 | brlcad | as that is most of the academic models |
| 22:41.18 | starseeker | those are annoying, but quite common |
| 22:41.31 | starseeker | I would say have a distinct, non-commercial section |
| 22:41.34 | starseeker | make it clear up front |
| 22:42.12 | Ralith | that seems to invite the creation of all sorts of sections for various licenses |
| 22:42.20 | Ralith | not a very clear place to draw a line. |
| 22:42.25 | starseeker | Ralith: no, not really |
| 22:42.38 | starseeker | some sort of filtered search is the general solution |
| 22:42.55 | Ralith | why not just prominently display the license for each model, and leave it nice and general? |
| 22:42.58 | starseeker | but the commercial/non-commercial use distinction is pretty common |
| 22:42.59 | brlcad | on the other extreme, whether to allow something akin to a "GPL" licensed model, or limit it only to LGPL/BSD/MIT/BY/BY-SA style licenses |
| 22:43.27 | starseeker | isn't even sure what GPL/LGPL really mean for CAD models |
| 22:43.47 | brlcad | Ralith: mostly to avoid the problem of things like CGAL where all the best stuff is untouchable, and you have to hunt individually |
| 22:44.08 | Ralith | wouldn't a flexible search system as is par for the course these days suffice? |
| 22:44.15 | brlcad | starseeker: the spirit of those license, there are "CC equivalents" to GPL |
| 22:44.24 | starseeker | no, you don't want to parade the non-commercial stuff |
| 22:44.36 | starseeker | make it available, but encourage the totally free licenses |
| 22:44.47 | Ralith | I suppose isolating it would encourage people to license their stuff otherwise |
| 22:44.52 | brlcad | Ralith: possibly, but still can end up with the issue of having all the best stuff be untouchable |
| 22:45.07 | starseeker | exactly |
| 22:45.33 | Ralith | hadn't considered that many models probably won't already have a license associated |
| 22:45.48 | brlcad | specifically towards being a repository of freely unencumbered models that I know I can use |
| 22:45.51 | Ralith | (thus requiring the author to choose one in the context we present) |
| 22:45.51 | starseeker | open source CAD models are pretty rare |
| 22:46.03 | brlcad | exceptionally rare |
| 22:46.12 | Ralith | here's to hoping we can change that. |
| 22:46.18 | starseeker | so the time to start a trend is now :-) |
| 22:46.21 | Ralith | ^^ |
| 22:46.42 | starseeker | if a good body of freely available (commercial and non-commercial) models can be created and get most of the attention, that builds a momentum |
| 22:47.18 | Ralith | good PR for brl-cad itself, too. |
| 22:47.19 | hippieindamakin8 | ex: the model of the bussard reactor core |
| 22:47.23 | starseeker | sort of the way the FSF built up the GPL - if OpenSolaris had appeared just when the GPL was getting started, the world would probably look rather different now |
| 22:48.21 | Ralith | hippieindamakin8: got a link for that? |
| 22:48.23 | Ralith | is curious |
| 22:48.38 | brlcad | also to be clear, really don't want to get into the business of how people license their works -- just want the scope of the repository to be a well-defined useful resource -- "open source" CAD models |
| 22:48.39 | Ralith | you mean the model that guy was working on? |
| 22:48.50 | jonored_ | hippieindamakin8: I was thinking the same thing... a good drawing of the internals of a polywell would be shiny... |
| 22:49.04 | starseeker | yes, only concerned with licensing of cad models as a means to an end |
| 22:49.16 | hippieindamakin8 | Ralith, yeah the one famulus is working on |
| 22:49.20 | Ralith | kk |
| 22:49.39 | starseeker | the end being lots of good quality free models :-) |
| 22:50.12 | starseeker | hmm |
| 22:50.21 | starseeker | (the cat insists on being petted) |
| 22:50.31 | Ralith | cats do that. |
| 22:50.46 | hippieindamakin8 | http://prometheusfusionperfection.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/fusor-core/ |
| 22:50.50 | hippieindamakin8 | Ralith, ^ |
| 22:50.53 | brlcad | ideally even scoping the site even further to distinguish or require that the models also be solid geometry, so that they are "real world" models |
| 22:51.00 | Ralith | hippieindamakin8: yeah, I remember that |
| 22:51.46 | brlcad | things I could feed to a CNC or rapid prototyper or an analysis, compute weights/moments on, calculate volumes, etc |
| 22:53.08 | Ralith | oh yeah |
| 22:53.11 | Ralith | jonored_: how's the slicer doing? |
| 22:53.41 | hippieindamakin8 | brlcad, i guess the repository can be integrated into drupal |
| 22:53.58 | brlcad | into anything really |
| 22:54.22 | jonored_ | Ralith: Most of the way cleaned up, but still taken a back seat to graduating. |
| 22:55.05 | Ralith | of course. Looking forward to playing with it. |
| 22:57.22 | Ralith | brlcad: did you have any further input on my milestones/timeline? |
| 22:59.19 | brlcad | Ralith: not today :) |
| 22:59.29 | Ralith | kk |
| 22:59.34 | brlcad | is decompressing a little |
| 22:59.50 | Ralith | that's always nice. |
