Topic: New feature!

[James]

FIXED IT!

Thanks for finding that! 

OK, so if you have done the dl before reading THIS statement, you need to dl again!

http://laserboy.org/code/LaserBoy_2010_06_14.zip

James.   

[James]

Oops.

For those of you who like to compile the code form source, get it one-more-time!

LaserBoy_frame.cpp needed to be updated.

That is all!

James. 

[James]

Bummer!

I just found a way to make LB crash every time!

That's not a very good feature!

I'll fix it!

James. 

[James]

Crash condition identified.

Antimatter particles contained.

Imminent annihilation averted.

All systems functioning normally.

http://laserboy.org/code/LaserBoy_2010_06_17.zip 

James. 

[no-esc]

downloading now

[meandean]

  Fix it, break it, break it, fix it, fix it, break it... ad infinitum . Now, I can't do a 10 sec unoptimized wave rendering
of the infamous ILDA test pattern.

[James]

Hmmmmm.

I see what you mean......

That's one to think about.

If it's calculated to clock out over an exact period of time, isn't that optimized?

Maybe! Maybe NOT!

In the mean time, you can copy that frame over and over into a frame set of many many frames and send that out as an unoptimized frame set. In each copy action you can double the number of frames.

James.

[meandean]

If it's calculated to clock out over an exact period of time, isn't that optimized?

Maybe! Maybe NOT!

 In this case, it IS to be clocked 'as is' at 30k- that's what makes it a test pattern. If you do a frame minimize in LB, you'll find that the number of vertices drops from 1191 to 192. That's the thing about ILDA vs CAD: ild can be more than one frame per file, but it can also contain redundant vertices and equal vectors within a frame. In pure CAD, redundancy is meaningless.

[James]

Yes. I know. I see it. There are a number of factors that go into preparing the vector information before it gets written out to a wave file and in any case, the information needs to have the LSB sub-code tags added at exactly the right samples. It is a bit of a challenge to make all that work in an every-case scenario.

James.   

[James]

Here is a newer newest new version! 

http://laserboy.org/code/LaserBoy_2010_06_25.zip

Check it out Dean. This one has 8 options for saving to wave!

The entire code set is now just over 2 million characters.

I was surprised to find out that is still less than 50 thousand lines of code.

James. 

[James]

Here comes another one!

http://laserboy.org/code/LaserBoy_2010_06_27.zip 

Fixed a couple of bugs:

put the .bmp extension on the files saved in a directory (oops).

realized it's not practical to try to delete a folder full of stuff! So you can't save a bmp or dxf directory if the name already exists.

fixed an issue with LaserBoy formatted wave import that sometimes made the last frame not appear.

James.