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-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
BRL-CAD To Do List
==================
This document contains a collection of desirable BRL-CAD development
tasks. Included is a list of the tasks expected for the current
monthly development release iteration, tasks that will hopefully be
completed within two iterations, and a remaining "backlog" of
unscheduled development tasks.
This is not an official list of tasks that will be completed. Instead
it's more like a developer scratch pad for recording ideas and
coordinating release tasks. At the beginning of each month,
developers add the tasks they expect to complete and then remove those
tasks as they are completed.
THESE TASKS SHOULD HAPPEN BEFORE THE NEXT RELEASE
-------------------------------------------------
THESE TASKS SHOULD HAPPEN WITHIN TWO RELEASE ITERATIONS
-------------------------------------------------------
THESE ARE UNSCHEDULED BACKLOG TASKS
-----------------------------------
* ability to place/align/mate objects tangentially, e.g., having a
vehicle rest on a piece of terrain or putting one object next to
another object.
* race condition causing bus errors on exit
* re-enable regress-asc and regress-weight
* material infrastructure has regressions due to attr sync code that
needs to be resolved.
* dbconcat corrupted database / failed. created a top-level comb with
invalid "1_[subcomb]/" to be created that result in error messages
during any db listing (e.g., tops). workaround was to manually edit
the comb and remove the 1_ and / on the entries.
* The following will be removed from MGED's menu bar (unused
features, can be accomplished another way, or will be exposed
only as lower level settings when there are sensible defaults
that are seldom changed.)
Modes->Display Lists
Misc->Keystroke Forwarding
Misc->Depth Cueing
Misc->Z Buffer
Misc->Lighting
* implement uv-mapping callback so we can texture-map BoT, NMG, and
NURBS geometry
* modify libfb's default memory buffer allocation to be dynamic
* create a BRL-CAD .g with all possible object types embedded.
integrate into testing. e.g., scene with all object types plus a
lookup check to ensure none are missing.
* fix pipe subtractions shaded display issue in archer
* attribute normalization is drastically slowing down
region creation - need to fix or back out
* add regression test for directional light sources
* bundle primary rays in rt front end into postage stamps, shoot via
rt_shootrays(), modify to pass all rays down through the spatial
partitioning simultaneously
* readd support for vrml v1 to g-vrml so that users can select whether
they want v2 (default) or previous v1 output format via a
command-line switch. see http://brlcad.svn.sf.net/viewvc/brlcad/brlcad/trunk/conv/g-vrml.c?view=diff&pathrev=22798&r1=16900&r2=16901
* metaball in command input needs sanity checks and better validation.
* integrate gen-registered-attributes-html output into website
* brlcad-config build helper script is not working (not reporting
-llibs, reporting semicolon list for 'brlcad' lib). Example working output:
$ /usr/brlcad/rel-7.18.0/bin/brlcad-config brlcad
-L/usr/brlcad/rel-7.18.0/lib -m64 -L/usr/local/lib64 -L/usr/local/lib -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fexceptions -ggdb3 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O3 -w -L/usr/brlcad/rel-7.18.0/lib -lbrlcad -lged -lwdb -lrt -lbn -lbu -ltcl8.5 -ldl -lm -lpng14 -lz -lc -lpthread -lregex -lsysv -lopenNURBS -lanalyze
$ /usr/brlcad/rel-7.18.0/bin/brlcad-config rt
-L/usr/brlcad/rel-7.18.0/lib -m64 -L/usr/local/lib64 -L/usr/local/lib -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fexceptions -ggdb3 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O3 -w -L/usr/brlcad/rel-7.18.0/lib -lrt -lbn -lbu -ltcl8.5 -ldl -lm -lpng14 -lz -lc -lpthread -lregex -lsysv -lopenNURBS
* OpenCL for enhanced performance boolweave sorting
* create boolweave+boolfinal unit tests to validate weaving behavior
and performance.
* make sure we can run db_dirbuild() multiple times without creating
duplicate entries.
* tree command shouldn't infinite loop when encountering a cyclic
path - need to print a warning and stop walking. Requires full
path awareness in tree command walk.
Consider implementing a corollary to FTS instead of dirent for
simplified tree traversal with cyclic awareness.
https://keramida.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/fts3-or-avoiding-to-reinvent-the-wheel/
* bounding box reduction command
* consolidate dbconcat, clone, make_name, and any other .g I/O
routines that need to autogenerate names to use the new
bu_vls_incr/bu_vls_simplify functions.
* g-obj not exporting colors
* heap unit test needs to actually compare performance against system
allocation, not just do some work
* mged> nirt -f fmt needs output cleanup. When run with -f csv there are
unexpected warnings and duplicate line prints
* move the rt_*_timer timing facilities to libbu and rework to allow
contexts, allowing for more than one timer to be active. Make sure
the old librt API can be obsoleted cleanly.
* Investigate OpenMesh decimation capabilities, identifying a good working
default setup for a decimate command. Probably will need bounding box
based tolerance defaults, as well as enabling one or more of the filters
that constrain triangle shape.
* See if we can eliminate BRL-CAD use of re2c/lemon/perplex. Upstream
stepcode project is considering a part11 parser rewrite not using
them. wfobj uses it, but with the pending Asset Import Library support
in gcv that capability may be eclipsed, and the csg parser isn't
active and is at a very early stage. DPLOT support for brep command
would need to be rewritten, but other than that we may be in a position
to eliminate usage of those tools in BRL-CAD and (eventually) stepcode.
The main motivation for this: our versions of these tools ended up being
a one-off - re2c didn't end up adopting the lemon port and the code has
moved on, and perplex is our own one off. STEPcode was the main
motivation for the creation of that toolset (needing a portable
alternative to the flex/bison solution originally used). We've not
ended up needing the re2c/lemon/perplex toolchain for other parts of
BRL-CAD much, which means it now makes sense to see if we can simplify.
* consider user interface and usability implications of gchecker
and/or overlap_tool as commands that kick off GUI. need to consider
if there's a non-GUI output/utility and how the CLI pairs up with
other GUI-inducing commands like rtwizard, raytrace control panel,
geometree, etc.
* Add manual page for 3dm-g
* Attempt to update to use latest upstream poly2tri resulted in incorrect
shading when trying to view the NIST2 example - many faces didn't
facetize. We've had occasional robustness problems with brep triangulation
for a long while - need to investigate approaches to this algorithm that
might help:
https://github.com/ChengCat/fast-poly2tri
https://github.com/raptor/clip2tri
* add basic bot validation so we can have a means to sanity check
that vertex, edge, and other indices are valid.
* automatic tops
implement db_tops() to return list of top-level entities. then,
implement a db_tops_default() to support automatic default object
loading for commands like rt* that typically work with top-level
objects. let some commands default to an unspecified object when
there's an identifiable priority according to matching criteria:
a) _GLOBAL has a tops_default attribute set, default to that object
b) there's only one object, default to that object
c) there's only one comb, default to that comb
d) there's only one comb (sans any ext) matching filename (sans ext)
e) there's only one comb with pattern matching '^(all|scene)*'
if _GLOBAL has a tops_default attribute set to empty/negative, then
this behavior will be disabled.
when there is not a match, the commands should report out the
available top-level objects by default. that way the user doesn't
have to manually run mged to figure out what can be rendered.
* automatic ground plane
Need ability to auto-calculate a ground plane default for a given
model. Need render option to display the ground plane (e.g.,
auto-insert a half or arb8). Need libged command for
creating/manipulating explicit ground objects. Needs to work with
ground_plane_offset attribute on _GLOBAL.
* audit support for slashes in object names and commands that expect
paths or can/should have meaningful behavior with paths
* default tops to undecorated, deprecate -n, add tops -p
* document tops options in man page
* default ls to undecorated, deprecate -n, add ls -p
* make mv and mvall not accept slashes on destination:
mged> mv sph.r sph.r/R
db_lookup(R) failed: R does not exist
db_string_to_path() of 'sph.r/R' failed on 'R'
mged> tops
sph.r/R/R
mged> mv sph.r/R sph.r
mged> tops
sph.r/R
* consider not using spaces in the default installer path on Windows
for simplified scripting usage (e.g., when installed to C:\)
* color management of objects in mged/archer so you can brighten dark
objects, darken bright objects, map objects to other colors, etc.
related to the luminance adjustments being done in the Creo export
plugin.
* idents command needs to have csv/xls output options and should
output a column header and optionally not export the comment header
for ease of import into spreadsheet programs.
* running mged geometry browser and selecting preview results in an
error. code appears to be assuming both /dev/X framebuffer and uses
/dev/null redirect to sink output.
* rtwizard greys out the File->New and Open menu items when run with a
filename, which is very confusing. Either menu should remain usable
or there should be some other indication that a file was specified
and is open.
* the mged tutorials apparently do not mention the tops command (even
once), but really should as it's the starting point for discovering
what is in databases that are opened or imported.
* add metaball scaling feature (presently in a tclscript)
* ability to visualize metaball centerpoints and with/without
translucency.
* add linear interpolation method for metaballs
* optimize metaballs performance case where there are lots of single
points, no interpolation.
* add script/command for changing metaball weights in masse
* dbconcat option to override / merge over existing objects
* dbconcat option to auto-update incoming combs when affixes are
auto-added. this would address the caution mentioned in the man
page.
* gdiff in mged appears to be broken? get "no primitives found" on
second comb when specifying two combs (gdiff comb1 comb2).
UPDATE - this appears to be a consequence of how gdiff internally
implements its raytrace diffing. The "fix" would be to separately
raytrace each object and post-process the line segments, rather
than drawing up everything at once - the latter has problems if
part or all of comb2 is shared with comb1. A workaround is to
keep out comb2 and dbconcat it back in, then gdiff comb1 with the
imported tree.
* pixscale doesn't seem to handle stdin (due to bu_seek) for very
long
* The embedded framebuffer for the X display manager is not working
with Tcl/Tk 8.6 - it brings down mged with an Xerror when it tries
to XFlush after X24_blit. Better solution is to replace the X
dm/fb with a cross platform software rasterizing solution of some
sort.
* extract a skin or other exterior surface for a given model. 3 options:
1. Implement a "shrinkwrap" feature that calculates a concave hull
2. Shoot rays from outside, construct exterior mesh based on hits
(akin to marching cubes, a surface reconstruction)
3. Shoot rays from outside at exterior vertices, retain all mesh faces
and objects encountered (i.e., not reconstructed, but extracted)
* RTAREA
* add an option to rtarea for onehit. this is probably best as an
option that reports the requested objects only and then has a
verbose option for the more detailed hiearchical report that is
currently produced.
* verify rtarea. There are reports that the rtarea
command may have a bug in its calculations. This needs to be
investigated.
* review and fix rtarea's taxonomy for describing
presented/projected areas. users expect presented area to
represent what is currently referred to as exposed area. may make
more sense to introduce a different terms for other shotline
encounters.
* make rtarea display a cross-hair and perhaps coordinates for the
center of area if run from within mged.
* add an option to rtarea for onehit. this is probably best as an
option that reports the requested objects only and then has a
verbose option for the more detailed hiearchical report that is
currently produced.
* verify rtarea. There are reports that the rtarea
command may have a bug in its calculations. This needs to be
investigated.
* review and fix rtarea's taxonomy for describing
presented/projected areas. users expect presented area to
represent what is currently referred to as exposed area. may make
more sense to introduce a different terms for other shotline
encounters.
* make rtarea display a cross-hair and perhaps coordinates for the
center of area if run from within mged.
* bot -V check solid bot.s visualizations don't show up if bot.s is
first drawn in MGED - should properly "overlay" them so the user
doesn't have to first erase the solid from the scene visual.
* rtwizard's reopening of the database is causing db_dircheck
"Duplicate of..." errors when opening read-only .g files.
* procedural studio box generation allowing for specification of size,
shape, material, and lighting characteristics
* verify all of the src/util utilities behave correctly on Windows
with respect to mode (i.e. correctly using setmode/O_BINARY when
performing file I/O.)
* replace los references/terminology with span, len, dist, factor, etc
accordingly since los is ambiguous and a source of user confusion.
* enhance env command to handle debug variables, use sysctl style
groupings of variables, and in general make the setup simpler
and more uniform (ideally we'll fold the debug command's
capabilities into env in some form.) Need to have a usability
brainstorming session, but after discussion with Sean general
outlines are to:
Switch all debug variable management to staging through
environment variables rather than directly setting hex values
on the globals, but leave the globals as the low level mechanism
for performance reasons (getenv is much more expensive, don't
want it in core code.) Something like:
LIBRT_DEBUG_HF (env variable) -> debug.rt_hf (env cmd) -> rt_debug hex val (library)
* overlay command needs to accept multiple file arguments
* Bounding Boxes
* make the bb command default to calculating a tighter-fitting
bounding box using plot points and knowledge of the subtraction
objects (e.g., perform inside/outside test against arb8s).
* implement a faster raytraced AABB function that calls ft_plot(),
shoots a ray through each point, and computes the resulting box.
* g-shell-rect appears to be the only command that will give a
raytraced AABB. we need to refactor that feature into either the
gqa -Ab (which merely reports the prep box) or the analyze command
(or both).
* add option(s) to 'bb' for reporting different types of boxes:
1) unevaluated, without subtractions (current fast result)
2) unevaluated, with subtractions
3) evaluated, coarse (use plot points)
4) evaluated, precise (use ray tracing)
5) evaluated, exact (requires Implicit+CSG->BREP+CSG->BREP-CSG)
option dimensionality #1: sphere v aabb v obb v 8dop v cxhull
#2: unevaluated v evaluated booleans
#3: without v with subtractions
#4: coarse v precise v exact
* investigate why the new bbox() routines for ARS and BoT result in
bounding boxes that are way too big.
* implement prep optimzation to the default fast bbox approximation
specifically for arb8/rpp since we know the exact extent of their
bounds and can chop away at a box with a box.
* make gqa -Ab use sample points for reporting an evaluated AABB.
* make bb report an evaluated AABB by default.
* provide option for displaying object bounding boxes while
rotating. visualization feature to help with rotation operations,
showing global object alignment with respect to its own coordinate
space.
* Extract bounding box code from both autoview.c and get_autoview.c
into a general bounding rpp function in librt and use accordingly
(particularly in libged). Should combine autoview.c with
get_autoview.c (perhaps as a flag) and utilize the general
function in lots of places (e.g., the ged_arb() function).
* add unit tests for primitive callback routines (e.g., bbox).
* put bu_num_print() to use
* use bu_gettime() in rt -l8 heatgraph visualization mode
* fully implement analyze for all geometry objects
* implement general analyze estimate (perhaps just raytrace it) for
primitives where values like surface area, volume, or bb are very
difficult to calculate.
* move analyze logic into libanalyze (with respective primitive logic
into src/librt/primitives/*).
* extend analyze output formatting to user-specified formats ala nirt
* calculate products of inertia in 'analyze' and/or gqa output
* calculate radii of gyration in 'analyze' and/or gqa output
* implement make, ted, edsol, mirror, and analyze for revolve
primitive. implement tess() too.
* go_open inmem to db command
* optimize mged interactive loop command processing. creating 10k
objects: 40 sec, via inmem: 2 sec
* implement a bu_exec wrapper and investigate something like capnproto
to build up a process-isolated command execution system for libged.
Possibly useful resources:
- https://github.com/s-u/multicore/blob/master/src/forknt.c
- https://github.com/diacritic/BoxFort
- https://yuhui-lin.github.io/blog/2017/08/01/serialization
* Implement a bu alarm(2)-style interface so we can abort library
routines gracefully from application code. A quick initial attempt
at this didn't succeed very well (r71644 has what was tried).
* cppclean audit
* add a multiview rt script to regression testing (e.g., see rtwalk output)
* finish implementing pnts:
- ray trace pnts
- make color and vectors on pnts work
* handling of geometry with names like "--_25" fails in archer
* drawing with origin, axes, and overall dimensions for rt/rtedge/etc.
* gather v&v docs on configuration management process, user manuals,
process documentation, software documentation, model descriptions.
* STIX 2.0 fonts are released, using OpenType - check to see whether
we can upgrade to these for our DocBook processing
* Fedora doesn't have the old fonts mged assumes: dm-X: Can't open font '9x15' or '-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1'
* lay out filesystem and URI models for database storage and access -
these design decisions are fundamental and have broad implications for many
other design decisions. Issues to consider include where and how versioning,
how to access attribute data from URIs, what the filesystem analogies are
(combs -> directories, objects -> hard links, etc...), where they break down
(comb boolean expressions don't map cleanly to the notion of directory
contents, for example) and how to handle the various cases, how to present
a "db_glob" API etc. Need a proper document laying all of this out.
Potentially relevant/useful links:
URI specification: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
Minimal URI parser: https://github.com/cloderic/curi
Larger URI parser: https://github.com/bnoordhuis/uriparser2
Fast parser, has deps: https://github.com/toffaletti/libguri
OpenBSD glob with function callbacks (rework/simplify
to be *only* a callback API to make this properly generic,
then have OS or .g specific functions...):
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/include/glob.h
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c
* look at components of the Screened Poisson code and figure out where/how
they would map into BRL-CAD components. (this is partially to see whether
we can (re)implement this logic in our framework and partially an exercise
in BRL-CAD library scoping)
* replace guts of bu_ptbl to see if we can improve performance -
implications for removal if an appropriate substitute is found,
needs to be deprecated if we remove all API but we can update guts.
Try moodycamel https://github.com/cameron314/concurrentqueue
* check state of adaptagrams work - turn on? if not, delete?
* brlman - need remote text display in MGED, maybe run non-graphical brlman
in MGED console mode? A last resort fallback could be console text output
via mandoc...
* add ability to capture any command's output to a file, ideally with
options for specifying stdout and/or stderr. of priority are the
attr and rtcheck/gqa commands. this should probably be handled by a
libged command wrapper so it's consistent and available to any
command.
* mater command does not validate its arguments - fix that. Also
properly document using "." to skip specifying something - not in
the man page currently.
* bullet integration - need to expose restitution as an
object parameter so we can configure behavior:
http://www.bulletphysics.org/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=&f=&t=3248
* afl on libged/mged/rt/...
* moodycamel as libbu queue/list/ptbl implementation
* define geometry URL and VFS behavior
* change _mged_ command prefix to a simple '.' prefix to hide/protect
the built-in commands.
* sync tgc/rec shot() behavior, sort results for proper normal.
inspect t62 grazing with r653,r735 (tgc on an arb8) looking at ae0,0
and z=1524 (was hit/overlap, now misses).
* havoc.g s.nos5g reliably exhibits the grazing edge bug where only
one hit point is being returned. to reproduce:
e s.nos5g ; ae 35 25 ; units mm ; center 26912.4 7089.08 7168.96 ; nirt
* obsd stack crashers
* closing the graphics window brings down X11 on Mac due to a bad
context. fix or revert recent close window behavior.
* evaluate OpenMesh (http://www.openmesh.org) and OpenFlipper
(http://www.openflipper.org) for smoothing, decimation, and
additional GCV conversion formats.
* GCT decimation assumes no edge is shared by two triangles except
once in the reversed order (AB, BA). Needs basic check to avoid
failures/crashing.
* V&V bwcrop, pixembed are behaving correctly, as documented
* implement unit tests for bu dirent / stat API
* convert src/util/terrain.c to src/shapes/terrain.c writing out the
datafile to a binunif along with a referencing dsp. perhaps add
command line option to skip .g to retain prior datafile capability.
need to review command line options to simplify complexity and
control randomization better.
* get_eyemodel returns an eye_pt entry, but feeding the results to
archer's eye_pt command results in get_eyemodel returning a different
eye_pt, even when the units are all in mm. is this expected?
intuitively, I would expected feeding the results of get_eyemodel to
eye_pt to result in no change, modulo unit conversions.
* make rt -b accept a pixel index in addition to x,y pixel coordinates
* teach pixdiff and other tools that can/should support the capability
to read/write (as appropriate) pixel index values or x,y coordinates
and reproduce the ray fired to create that pixel. currently does -l
index but not xy coordinates.
* make mged work without a batch script
* Need to rethink libbu hash API - ideally should be much simpler and
expose much less to the user.
* The current libbu mime API needs to be retired in favor of something
more powerful. It was a mistake to use enums generated from the
mime types - they are static, cannot be enriched at runtime (say,
by icv plugins) and the separation of the context from the type
itself (image/png -> BU_MIME_IMAGE and BU_MIME_IMAGE_PNG for example)
is both cumbersome and unnecessary. Instead, grab a subset of the
capabilities of libmagic (https://github.com/file/file) and define
a new libbu mime/data-typing subsystem that is runtime populated by
a default set of pseudo-libmagic style file definitions (may want
to adjust their format slightly, to require a mime type for each
entry, and we need an way to define entries where we don't (yet)
know how to inspect the file contents to identify them...)
This approach will let us define the types that are of interest to
BRL-CAD, while also letting plugins "educate" the system to support
processing of formats the base system (and the "standard" mime type
lists) know nothing about.
* investigate merging functionality from the sig tools into libicv
and removing the tools themselves. Also, need some documentation
for the sig functionality (currently none??)
* start making use of the CMakePushCheckState macros - we are doing
this manually in several places
* expand libbu parallelism with thread-level control, i.e., the
ability to start/stop/wait on individual threads in addition to the
existing bu_parallel() call. bu_parallel() gets updated to call the
new thread-level control under the hood, but allows for more
expressive threading structures (e.g., a function similar to
bu_parallel() that is non-blocking).
One consideration would be to implement something similar to Intel's
Cilk API:
+ bu_spawn() specifies that a function call to execute
asynchronously, without requiring the caller to wait for it to
return. This allows for parallelism but does not mandate it (so
code will function as expected if it does block).
+ bu_sync() specifies that all spawned calls must complete before
execution continues. This allows for synchronization of data at
different phases of a computation.
+ bu_for() specifies iterations of a loop body to be executed in
parallel. This would be a way to easily parallelize existing code
without needing to create wrapper functions for bu_parallel().
* convert usages of Tcl_InitHashTable() and friends to libbu
containers (see src/conv/enf-g.c for example usage)
* importer for LS-DYNA .k keyword files. they support a variety of
geometry constructs. their spec is freely available online. no
existing libs are known.
* implement gdiff support for reporting the amount of spatial
difference between two objects. primarily for calculating amount of
error introduced via bot, nmg, and brep nurbs format
conversion. also useful for knowing relative difference between two
versions (e.g., which is bigger).
* air regions (aircode > 0) are removed/skipped during prep, but there
is no message to the user that this has occurred. this can result
in unexpected behavior (bad usability) if/when air regions are the
only geometry being displayed (or are a substantial portion of the
current display. prep needs to return a catalog so summary
reporting can be facilitated (of all objects, successful or not).
* look into whether db_dirbuild should call db_update_nref
* evaluate replacing libfft with the KISS FFT library
(http://kissfft.sourceforge.net, BSD) or the OpenCL-based clFFT
(https://github.com/clMathLibraries/clFFT, Apache2). we need to
test correctness, precision, and performance via dfft.
May also be worth looking at https://github.com/anthonix/ffts (has a
CMakeified version at https://github.com/henrygouk/ffts)
Priit Laes converted our tools to FFTW (circa 2010, see
brlcad-devel), but FFTW is not license-compatible. there is an sf
patch containing this conversion, untested.
* import CTRI material information in fast4-g as per-face data.
* Integrate ADRT into Archer as a visualization mode.
* Document a GUI feature list (prioritized).
* Document a CLI feature list (prioritized).
* high-performance VOL for medical data visualization. consider
leveraging OpenVDB, PCL, Paraview/VTK, etc.
* establish the Basic Application Runtime (BAR), only consisting of
libbu and libbn, as a stand-alone self-contained project. provide
an API that supports most C/C++ application development and
documents our facilities that help simplify code portability,
performance, and maintainability. the scope is basic application
utility and numerics only. this scope is particularly tailored
towards 3D and scientific application development.
the basic utility routines encapsulate platform-specific constructs
portably. the basic numeric routines provide general math
facilities common to scientific application development with a
particular emphasis on being platform agnostic, high performance,
and validated.
the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and GIMP Toolkit (GTK) are similar
alternatives (particularly to BAR's basic utility routines) but have
different emphases, scope, and development philosophies.
BAR API design aims to be minimally intrusive on application
developers, not requiring them to be aware of or adapt types or
functions until it provides some clear advantage (e.g., portability,
performance, and/or maintainability).
* rename the "joint2" articulation command (possibly also rename the
"joint" command) worked on when joint objects were implemented.
joint2 interfaces with the old text-file based articulation
interface, but conceivably should get updated when joint objects can
describe everything in the old text files.
* create a joint articulation (manually is good, automatic is better)
for the tin woodsman so he can move his arms, legs, neck, and head.
* create a joint articulation (manually is good, automatic is probably
impossible) for ktank so the turret can spin and the gun barrel may
be raised up/down within a given range.
* need ability to report the smallest feature in a given hierarchy
(smallest edge?) and/or largest error in a given boundary model
(largest edge gap or distance between two points that should be
coincident).
* geometry compiler. provides different levels of "optimization"
(ways of reducing the geometry complexity with or without
introducing 3D changes. provides different stages of compilation
(e.g., similar to preprocessing, compilation, AST reduction,
optimization, encoding transformation, etc.). name ideas: bcg, cg
* geometry debugger. low-level geometry database tool with minimal/no
run-time dependencies on our own libraries. the idea is a tool that
can inspect/repair a potentially corrupted/invalid .g file or help
debug library robustness issues. using headers for identifiers and
codes in the implementation is okay (as are library functions, but
just don't rely on any). name ideas: gdbg, dbadmin, dbtool, dbmaint
* BU_SETJUMP/BU_UNSETJUMP into macros
* convert all calls to BU_SETJUMP/BU_UNSETJUMP into familiar try/catch
logic layout using if/else.
* re-do the sh/enumerate.sh script for CMake
* get bu_extern out of bu/parse.h into its own header file.
* geometry symbolic links (hard and soft links)
* investigate INFINITY spatial partitioning issue.
* kill material_head static global in src/librt/mater.c
* add an mk_extrude() routine to libwdb.
* Teach CMake to respect and use user-defined CMAKE_C_FLAGS and
other options supplied at the command line and in environment
variables. See whether we can pass a variable into CMAKE_C_FLAGS
that will allow specification of build flags at make time.
Relevant link: https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=12928
* investigate the possibility of allowing functions to define
their own custom filters for some version of the db_search API.
If we can figure out a programmatic approach of some kind, why
not allow code to define their own "filters" that don't have
a corresponding mapping to the MGED command string? As long
as the functions satisfy the API templates used by the db_plan
structures, wouldn't custom functions work?
* implement rt_volume() API for computing geometry volume (gqa style
for complex, direct for primitives)
* rework fbcolor, fbzoom, and fbpoint to not use termlib, instead just
using regular printing and input reading in a loop.
* See if it is possible to simplify btclsh/bwish code when it comes
to relying on libtermio - linenoise can do the basics, and for fancier
keybinding/word based navigation see if launching in Emacs can suffice:
;; per https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/18672
(defun btclsh ()
(interactive)
(require 'term)
(let* ((cmd "btclsh")
(termbuf (apply 'make-term "btclsh console" cmd nil nil)))
(set-buffer termbuf)
(term-mode)
(term-line-mode)
(switch-to-buffer termbuf)))
* decouple libwdb from librt, particularly the headers and relevant
structures that cross over to both such as the rtgeom.h types.
* Translate logic from clipper polygon clipping library
(http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php) into libbg and use it
as a pre-processing step for poly2tri's algorithm along the lines
of what bitfighter did: https://github.com/raptor/clip2tri
Some useful notes here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16115775
* Translate the poly2tri routines into libbg C code
* Implement Shamos-Hoey test for checking whether a polygon is simple
in libbg: http://geomalgorithms.com/a09-_intersect-3.html
* figure out what in f_matpick (or possibly some other related function)
is causing ipathpos to get incremented to a number larger than the
number of objects in the full path it's supposed to be referencing.
* refactor rt_mirror (src/librt/primitives/mirror.c) into the functab
* refactor rt_functab accessors to go through an api call or calls so
that the array is not accessed directly. either an rt_eval() style
interface with data-driven keys to tell it with function(s) to call,
or simply have an rt_*() for each function (e.g., rt_mirror(),
rt_shot(), rt_describe(), etc.).
* review proc-db for promotion to src/shapes
* provide a viable FindBRLCAD.cmake
* fix nurbs_ssi and nurbs_tester unit tests
* get rid of the -P#processors user option (except rt* tools) common
on utilities. call bu_avail_cpus() and provide an environment
variable override used by the library.
* In tree.c line 531, the initialization of the local storage of the
full path in stp->st_path is conditionalized on the specifics of
the tree structure. Why? Could we get away with always initializing
(or never initializing, if it is not used) the st_path? Current
behavior is odd - if a region has a solid unioned under it the st_path
is not set, but if it has a comb unioned in the path is set - is this
an optimization, and if so is it necessary?
* investigate integrating Blender's (OSL-based) Cycles engine:
http://code.blender.org/index.php/2013/08/cycles-render-engine-released-with-permissive-license/
* investigate integrating Pixar's OpenSubdiv for subdivision surfaces:
http://graphics.pixar.com/opensubdiv/
* investigate the possibility of using Appleseed (http://appleseedhq.net/)
to perform visual image rendering using librt shotline data for input.
* the scale structure in bn_cmd_noise_slice (bn_tcl.c) was never
initialized. it looks like somebody has planned to extend the
function but never carried out
* implement a null spatial partitioning method so we can determine
what other intersection hits are being masked (and what impact a
given method has on performance)
* [hn]to[hn]* conversion functions were usurped by windows 8 so we
need to either wrap them or undeprecate our xdr API or see if a
simple config header fix might work (ideal)
* The sph wireframe drawing routine doesn't seem to like drawing very
small spheres far from the origin:
in test_2.s sph 1, 2, 1 0.0007 (draws a sphere wireframe correctly)
in test_1.s sph 10000 -15000 3000 0.0007 (incorrect wireframe)
* use spatial partitioning during boolean processing of polygonal
meshes. good approach might be to generalize TIE's kd-tree to
polygons or even create a new scheme (e.g., an integer-indexed grid
layout). data coherence would be nice (but not essential). current
approach is at least O(N^2) with large constant time. New should be
O(N*log(N)).
* rework the database object hash to push the iteration up into librt
as API instead of expecting callers to use RT_DBNHASH and
RT_DBHASH() manually. consider using bu_hash or other container.
* temp colors and temp matrices during ray tracing, rt, rtwizard.
need a command-line and mged method to override parameters.
* fix 64b detection across platforms. Fix rhel 32/64 confusion
* merge conv-vg2g into dbupgrade
* add option to rtedge to also show back-facing hidden edges
* add option to push/xpush to stop at the region level, to stop before
primitives, to stop after N levels, to stop before N levels. (This
is at least partially accomplished in npush work - need to hammer
out any remaining issues with depth stoppage limits...)
* make rt_dirbuild()+rt_dirbuild() work without vomiting error
messages about duplicate geometry. should be able to open the same
database multiple times without running into rt_uniresource
directory duplication
* convert teapot to use nurbs surfaces instead of bspline
* create a FASTGEN sample geometry with all entities defined and a
corresponding regression test to make sure outputs don't change.
* investigate bu_vls_encode/decode failures on g-dot.c (see that
file for FIXME note); add tests for both functions (note only
g-dot.c wants to use the functions at the moment)
* eliminate dbi_filepath (perhaps replace with dbi_filedir) as we
shouldn't need to search. we were told where the database was.
* replace use of libbu red-black trees with C++ containers (current
remaining uses appear to be pixcount and glint)
* make libdm framebuffer parallel-safe. use bu memory management.
remove semaphore locks in src/rt/main.c and elsewhere.
* eliminate the need for bu_semaphore_init(). allocate up to the
index requested on demand (so we can retain O(1) lookups) and
reserve the first N semaphores for BRL-CAD library use. change
index to a uint8_t or uint16_t type.
* make libbn/plot3.c functions parallel-safe so callers do not have to
manually wrap with bu_semaphore_acquire().
* rendering of the 'part' primitive is wrong for cases where H is less
than r1 (i.e., smaller cap is partially or fully within the larger
cap's radius). It ends up rendering the larger sphere.
* update mged to not call wdb_init_obj and wdb_create_cmd, trace down
other vestiges of wdb_obj for removal
* add support to rt tools and gtools for specifying az/el in radians
or degrees, propagate throughout mged commands that take angles too.
probably best implemented as a general libbn string to val function.
perhaps an explicit 'rad' suffix and an implicit 'deg' suffix, e.g.
rt -a 0.3rad -e 0.5rad and aet 0.3rad 45deg 0
* change fbserv usage to require a flag for its non-daemon mode, make
the device type optional for both daemon and non-daemon mode
* work on vdeck/comgeom-g converters needed:
- primitives recognized by comgeom-g but not vdeck:
ehy, epa, eto, rhc, rpc
- primitives recognized by comgeom-g (but not vdeck) but
with possible equivalent versions in BRL-CAD:
haf (half), rvw (right vertical wedge), raw (arb8), wed (DoE name
for 'raw'), wir (pipe), arw (arbitrary wedge [ERIM?])
- generate new comgeom-g tests with tgms from old GIFT docs
* test tgf-g conversion with "ring-mode" geometry
* fix metaball/adjust.. wipes out all metaball values with:
adjust metaball 1 1 1
just gives usage with:
adjust metaball 1 1
* test for -msse3 requirement for __SSE.*__ definition
* improve sse run-time detection so illegal instruction crashes are
avoided. presently, adding -msse* to compilation will result in a
crash if that binary is run on non-sse hardware (e.g., Pentium M)
* add support for a zoom/viewsize and twist options to rt so you can
adjust the image without having to feed a view script.
* struct rt_bot_internal should be using "size_t *" instead of "int *"
for the faces and face_normals members
* pixdiff reports bytes, but reports incorrect (off-by-one) bytes for
.bw input files. cause is due to tool assuming input is rgb triplets
(even though output is bytes, wtf?). should probably report pixels
and/or have a -b option for handling byte/bw input.
* investigate why epa primitive is so sensitive to coarse absolute
value changes (run csgbrep, tol abs=1, facetize and get 321k poly)
* implement http network transfer tool for crash reports and benchmark
analyses (via libfetch)
* reimplement benchmark suite in C/C++
* include defaults about the compiler in the benchmark suite output
including the compiler name and version at a minimum, plus hopefully
describing the CFLAGS that were used too. ideally would include all
of the versioning details (such as described from "gcc -v" if we
compiled with gcc) too.
* make bu_dirname not allocation memory. have caller pass
buffer in as a parameter with size ala snprintf/memcpy.
* make mged not have a garbled display manager window if the
framebuffer is enabled and the window is resized. initialize and
refresh the new memory and zap the framebuffer.
* make the right-hand path to oed optional
* vls name wrapping (reversible argv-to-vls, vls-to-argv). look at
src/libged/glob.c code, very similar.
* update g-xxx_facets to use libgcv
* bu_cv_optimize() should be using bu_byteorder().
* render annotated images to the OpenDocument format. this is
particularly useful for rtedge-style renderings with object
annotations where we can leverage layout components and scalable
vector graphics.
* investigate OpenEXR (BSD licensed HDE image format)
* usage statistics. similar to the eclipse Usage Data Collector, keep
track of which BRL-CAD command-line commands and MGED/libged
commands are run. Give the user the option of uploading those
statistics (now, always, later, off). Provide terms of use
explaining the ways that their data will be used and shared.
aggregate, this can help us focus development resources towards
improving workflows, documentation, robustness, and new development
areas.
* automatic anti-aliasing as a second render pass on the edges
encountered (possibly using bilinear filtering scheme, improve upon
rtedge's current simple filter)