Author archives: Mike
Remoting all day (Almost there)
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Got the bulk of the remote query software for Cinemon finished. Basically down to configuration and control of the feature. Anyway, I'm about done for the day.
Round trip completed (finally) (CAD Views to topological views to CAD views...)
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Finished off the CAD-system integration code for Cinemon today. Lots of little details mostly. Upside is that as of now we can import the files, store them properly, populate them for demos, and produce files to have the viewer pull up the CAD map with annotations for an area on user request.
Off to UU ...
Oil-based Paint
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Vindaloo.
I want the red
Deep and rich
Full of fats and oils
To dig itself in
Deep into the surface
Take full possession
Become the wall
Shed all that comes after
So many rain drops
Gathered on the floor
So no white-washing
Will cover its memory
Or forget that
We were here
Maybe a Draft
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Spring days
In darkest winter
Pass unheeded
In my unchanging room
Maybe a draft
From the open window
On a brilliant
Sun-kissed afternoon
Of Beige and Tan
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Too familiar walls
Bound off-white by law
Pock-marked by years
Refuse my eyes
A splash of red
A swirl of saffron
There, in the hall
Between pillasters
We must break out
Of beige and tan
To invite life back in
More integration (Different product...)
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Spent the whole day on Cinemon today; mostly making the code handle imports from a partner's CAD system more elegantly. Tweaked the graphics code to be able to handle deeper hierarchies as part of that.
The graphs are produced by a fairly elegant (IMO) algorithm, but there's a limit to how dense the graph it ...
Slow getting started today (So much for early-to-bed early-to-rise)
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Don't much feel like playing with VoIP today. Still, have to get it done. Building mostly external-systems integration stuff now, import and export scripts, that kind of thing.
A note to people who want other people to integrate with their business systems; publish technical specs on your web-site in the public areas. Don't put the ...
Hallowed Pillows
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Behold the hollowed pillows
Where her head once lay
Cradled in sweet dreams of sleep
That would wait another day
She's charged off to meet the world
On a brilliant sun-lit ray
But the hallowed pillows call her
Come back to us, they seem to say
Doesn't look like I'll get the nurbs finished this weekend (Darn it)
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I've probably got 80 or 90% of the work done for making NURBs work in OpenGL-ctypes. This is mostly just refactoring the code from the Tessellation structure into a base class and then writing up the various wrapper functions. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a generic way to know, at the callback level, what ...
The Ecstasy of Readers
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Never, dear reader, underestimate your role
Without your eyes my words would die still-born
Without your ears my songs could never wake
Your responses are precious beyond compare
For each verse opens new vistas in which to play
Spaces I would not have danced were I alone
Without a reader there can be no poetry ...
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.