Re: [brlcad-devel] gqa not using TIE

2014-10-17 Thread Ștefan-Gabriel Mirea
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Erik Greenwald wrote: > > Could you make the data/results public? (could even be a nifty blog post or > article) Sure. Feel free to download and use them, but you may have to improve them as they still don't get too relevant. > There were also very slight differ

Re: [brlcad-devel] gqa not using TIE

2014-10-16 Thread Erik Greenwald
On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:01 PM, Erik Greenwald wrote: > Could you make the data/results public? (could even be a nifty blog post or > article) whoops, didn't see the links in the post-script. Very interesting graph, the non-tie line particularly. This was just one rt sample at each tri count? >

Re: [brlcad-devel] gqa not using TIE

2014-10-15 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Oct 15, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Ștefan-Gabriel Mirea wrote: >> The downside is that it’s more work and we may have to follow our >> deprecation policy to change user-visible options if they were documented >> somewhere. > > Nevertheless, it looks like a better solution, so I will read the > CHA

Re: [brlcad-devel] gqa not using TIE

2014-10-15 Thread Erik Greenwald
On Oct 15, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Ștefan-Gabriel Mirea wrote: > I made a little research to find the best value for > MIN_TRIANGLES_FOR_TIE[1]. I made a C++ program that generates a BoT > with a specified number of triangles, whose vertices are organized > like the nodes of the latitude-longitude

Re: [brlcad-devel] gqa not using TIE

2014-10-15 Thread Ștefan-Gabriel Mirea
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > After validation and comparisons were completed (several years ago) the > options remained because there is a limitation. Sometimes TIE prep is *much* > slower than our traditional method. So slow that "old_prep+old_shot <

Re: [brlcad-devel] gqa not using TIE

2014-10-14 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Oct 14, 2014, at 7:05 PM, Ștefan-Gabriel Mirea wrote: >> #2 Eliminate rt_bot_mintie global altogether. Make rt_bot_prep() read the >> environment variable on-demand (which is called during rt_dirbuild()). Any >> user tools that expose a bot_mintie option (e.g., nirt, rt, and archer) will

Re: [brlcad-devel] gqa not using TIE

2014-10-14 Thread Ștefan-Gabriel Mirea
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > >> What would be the best approach? > > I’d suggest either #1 or #2: > > #1 Move rt_bot_mintie into the rtip structure. With that working and the > global eliminated, you then just have to ensure the value is set when an rtip >

Re: [brlcad-devel] gqa not using TIE

2014-10-13 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Oct 12, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Ștefan-Gabriel Mirea wrote: > I was looking to the next issue in the BUGS file: ged_gqa() directly > calls rt_new_rti() instead of using rt_dirbuild() to create a rt_i > structure, which causes the LIBRT_BOT_MINTIE environment variable to > be ignored. Nice one...

[brlcad-devel] gqa not using TIE

2014-10-12 Thread Ștefan-Gabriel Mirea
Hello! I was looking to the next issue in the BUGS file: ged_gqa() directly calls rt_new_rti() instead of using rt_dirbuild() to create a rt_i structure, which causes the LIBRT_BOT_MINTIE environment variable to be ignored. I thought of some possible solutions to fix this, but none of them looks