On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 22:04, Christopher Sean Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
...
> I found this in the current brlcad-devel archives:
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?
> msg_id=F4AAE2E381F0624BB8F513C1E9880FB93CDCA1%
> 40newman.fwb.internal.srs.com

Good find.  I guess I flunked my sourceforge search capability test.

>> In the middle of that posting thread I suggested a desire for a
>> multi-threaded version of rt and rtedge that could write to a file for
>> my scripted processes.
>
> Hm, they are multithreaded now though rtedge is pretty bad at it.

Even for writing to a file?  Good!

> (grayscale), pbm (bitmaps), pnm).  Having an option to automatically
> trim background excess from output images would make a nice addition
> to the tracers (maybe something like a padding option).  There's
> philosophical reasons why pix/bw don't have a header, though.
>
> The direction we're moving towards is so that you can specify any
> file format (e.g., rt -o file.png file.g object) and have the file
> type be inferred automatically allowing you to pick a file format
> that has dimensions embedded.  Some of the tools already support this
> feature to a limited extent.

That's certainly better than my suggestion--way to go!

-Tom

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