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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
