What do y'all think of the idea of a 3d printer? Aaron uses one at work. They call them "C&C machines." I don't recall what C&C stands for, but it basically takes a 3d model from a computer and cuts it into a piece of metal. I've been thinking about building such a beast.

Since there are a lot of data related to such a task, I figured I could get mysql and maxdb involved. Feedback?

Tags: 3d, 3d printer, maxdb, mysql, opengl, work

Rob mentioned that he’d like some help writing some stuff about X + OpenGL, which inspired me to get back to writing OpenGL stuff for X/GTK+. My last project, which was as much as two years ago now, was Jenkara, named after that quite taxing young lady of the similar name. You can see what kind of progress I made on that package here.

It was pretty neat, but it was written in straight-C GTK+. It was painful and not scalable.

I’m trying to learn how to use libglademm in a way that doesn’t suck. I like the idea behind Glade and libglademm, but visualizing how to create C++ objects that represent the widgets is a little difficult for me. Perhaps I’ll use a hash table. But that sounds kludgy. I should REALLY find an app that’s done it correctly and steal their code. That’s how all the professional code monkeys do it, right? But which app is that? I’ll ask the glade mailing list.

The upstairs neighbor is doing a lot of moving around.

So.. When I figure out how to use this libglademm stuff, what should I do with it? I’d love to make a 3D modeler and a texture mapping tool and help the two of them talk to each other. Perhaps I should do that. And publish the communication protocol. And see what other mischief I can get up to. Sounds like lots of work, but it also sounds like fun work. Maybe I’ll talk to Naofumi about it. Yeah, I’ll do that. Okay, I sent that email.

LogJam kills its gnome panel icon when you close the main window. Shouldn’t it stay open? I’m compiling from source (and forgot I was doing so) to see if this has been “fixed.”

I’ll send, close and re-start to see if it’s changed...

Tags: 3d, 3d modeler, c, c++, glade, gtk, jenkara, logjam, opengl, x