Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 25, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Check Nyah wrote: > >Also, were the numbers stable? That is, your two results are approximately > >65s vs 55s which is about 15% reduction in time. If you ran the comparison > >a couple more >times with different matrices, is always about 15%? > > Well the test w

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 25, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Check Nyah wrote: > Well Sean, > here is the code I used to test the both the new and old algorithms. Actually > I did not write all of it from scratch. But adapted the code to suit the test > i needed to perform. Added a make file to enable compiler code easily. T

Re: [brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD on Web

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 25, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Harmanpreet Singh wrote: > Here are the prototypes of how the BRL-CAD models will be visualized > interactively on browser. Thanks for sharing the progress. Is that our sample mug? It looks a little off. > BTW, I found something similar to this project: > https:/

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC Progress Update

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 25, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Vlad Bogolin wrote: > That's a shame that no help is to be had externally so far. Keep at it and > keep us informed what you find out. If it's a dead end, we can always push > towards a longer-term approach of decoupling Tk, but that will be more work. > > I have

[brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD on Web

2013-07-25 Thread Harmanpreet Singh
Here are the prototypes of how the BRL-CAD models will be visualized interactively on browser. http://devplace.in/~harman/geometry_viewer/cylinder.html http://devplace.in/~harman/geometry_viewer/mug.html However, currently the material is default, trying to give it some material or texture in Thr

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC Progress Update

2013-07-25 Thread Vlad Bogolin
Hi, That's a shame that no help is to be had externally so far. Keep at it and > keep us informed what you find out. If it's a dead end, we can always push > towards a longer-term approach of decoupling Tk, but that will be more work. > I have managed to embed Qt in the Tk main window and commi

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Check Nyah
>Also, were the numbers stable? That is, your two results are approximately 65s vs 55s which is about 15% reduction in time. If you ran the comparison a couple more >times with different matrices, is always about 15%? Well the test was based on the fact that the code generates a real transformat

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Check Nyah
Well Sean, here is the code I used to test the both the new and old algorithms. Actually I did not write all of it from scratch. But adapted the code to suit the test i needed to perform. Added a make file to enable compiler code easily. Cheers! Nyah On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Christoph

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 25, 2013, at 01:25 PM, Check Nyah wrote:Hey Sean,Just ran the tests comparing the old and new routines for computing the determinant and which gave me the following results:Excellent Nyah.  That definitely looks like a nice improvement.  Can you attach the test you used?Also, were the numbe

Re: [brlcad-devel] Doc Camp

2013-07-25 Thread Mohit Daga
Hi Kesha, > Also, I am interested and wanted to have some details about doc camp as to > exact dates, if available. My exams will be around last week of November > and at 1 or 2 days of December. > > This will be held at Google's Mountain View headquarters in California from October 14 - October

Re: [brlcad-devel] Doc Camp

2013-07-25 Thread Kesha Shah
Hi Sean, I have updated code cleanup page. Also, I am interested and wanted to have some details about doc camp as to exact dates, if available. My exams will be around last week of November and at 1 or 2 days of December. Will there be some sort of training given on document writing or given a

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Check Nyah
Another summary: Summary: - bn_mat_determinant() GCC 4.6.3 compiles both existing libbn and my implementations to roughly equally efficient binary on x86-64 if optimizations are enabled. Without compiler optimizations, mine is clearly faster. Without optimizations, mine runs in 1

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Check Nyah
Hey Sean, Just ran the tests comparing the old and new routines for computing the determinant and which gave me the following results: Old_determinant Test: Det: -3291.00 real1m5.151s user1m5.081s sys0m0.019s New_determinant Test: Det: -3291.00 real0m54.921s user0m54.8

Re: [brlcad-devel] Debian package: naming advice sought

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 25, 2013, at 09:01 AM, Tom Browder wrote:My first novice thought for package name was to split brlcad into several Debian binary packages similar to libxml2:You'd probably want to look at larger projects as an example, projects that ship many libraries like apache, svn, gcc, etc.  Single li

Re: [brlcad-devel] Debian package: naming advice sought

2013-07-25 Thread Jordi Sayol
On 25/07/13 15:01, Tom Browder wrote: > My first novice thought for package name was to split brlcad into > several Debian binary packages similar to libxml2: > > libbrlcad > libbrlcad-dev > libbrlcad-utils > libbrlcad-doc > libbrlcad-dbg > > with the source package retaining the name as is produ

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 25, 2013, at 08:38 AM, Check Nyah wrote:>Please do share your test and summarize your testing results here or on the patch itself when you have it.  If you need help setting up the test harness, just ask.  We >seem to end up writing a quick test harness for something ever week. :)I have alr

[brlcad-devel] Debian package: naming advice sought

2013-07-25 Thread Tom Browder
My first novice thought for package name was to split brlcad into several Debian binary packages similar to libxml2: libbrlcad libbrlcad-dev libbrlcad-utils libbrlcad-doc libbrlcad-dbg with the source package retaining the name as is produced by the BRL-CAD dev team. However, after being pointed

[brlcad-devel] Re : Doc Camp Interest

2013-07-25 Thread Isaac Kamga
On Wed, 24 July 2013 20:33:39 Christopher Sean Morrison wrote, >Is there anyone interested in attending the Google Doc Camp? ?We be able to >send up to five people spending a week in Mountain View, if we apply and are >accepted. ?Anyone interested in contributing to docs for BRL-CAD would be >welc

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Check Nyah
here are the results of my benchmark tests with the new algorithm B R L - C A D B E N C H M A R K = Running /usr/code/brlcad-build/bin/benchmark on Thu Jul 25 10:14:19 WAT 2013 Logging output to run-20835-benchmark.log Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-220.el6.i68

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Check Nyah
>ease do share your test and summarize your testing results here or on the patch itself when you have it. If you need help setting up the test harness, just ask. We >seem to end up writing a quick test harness for something ever week. :) I have already implemented and tested the algorithm with p

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 25, 2013, at 4:24 AM, check.nyah wrote: > Sorry, Sean for the mistake I was talking about the bn_mat_determinant() > routine(src/libbn/mat.c:1051). I will do the tests on my proposed routines > and do a comparism to see it its better; but i know it'll be. Ah, that makes a lot more sense

Re: [brlcad-devel] Doc Camp

2013-07-25 Thread Check Nyah
ok You can count me in. :) On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > On Jul 25, 2013, at 4:11 AM, check.nyah wrote: > > > yes I am interested in participating in the Google Doc Camp. I just wish > to know the programming languages required. > > Programming languages a

Re: [brlcad-devel] Doc Camp

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 25, 2013, at 4:11 AM, check.nyah wrote: > yes I am interested in participating in the Google Doc Camp. I just wish to > know the programming languages required. Programming languages are not involved. It's a week where a team of people write open source documentation. Cheers! Sean -

Re: [brlcad-devel] A more efficient algorithm for implementing bn_mat_identity and bn_mat_inverse

2013-07-25 Thread check.nyah
>ps. There is no bn_mat_identity() function. There is a MAT_IDN() macro, a bn_mat_identity global, and a MAT_INIT_IDN static initializer. Sorry, Sean for the mistake I was talking about the bn_mat_determinant() routine(src/libbn/mat.c:1051). I will do the tests on my proposed routines and do a co

Re: [brlcad-devel] Doc Camp

2013-07-25 Thread check.nyah
yes I am interested in participating in the Google Doc Camp. I just wish to know the programming languages required. Cheers! Nyah On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > Is there anyone interested in attending the Google Doc Camp? We be able > to send up to five p