21:32 <@matches> Minutes now have less "~*" in them
21:32 <@matches> Wrong channel
21:32 <@matches> Very wrong channel
+--- Day changed Mon Apr 21 2014
+12:32 <@matches> Literature Review O'Clock
+12:36 < sulix> I have just returned from my Easter holiday and have some horrible code for you to scream at while I have lunch. :P
+12:43 <@matches> Uh oh
+12:44 <@matches> stb_truetype ?
+12:44 <@matches> DejaVuSansMono.ttf ?!
+12:44 <@matches> Is this going to render a font...
+12:45 <@matches> Woah
+12:47 <@matches> Looks good
+12:48 <@matches> I think I will avoid looking at stb_truetype too closely...
+12:48 <@matches> Too late
+12:48 <@matches> Why are all the implementations in the .h file
+12:48 <@matches> And the .cpp file just has some defines...
+12:48 <@matches> shudder
+12:53 <@matches> I particularly like #define STBTT_assert(...) do {} while(0)
+12:53 < sulix> That's a standard way of doing that. SDL_assert does the same thing.
+12:54 < sulix> It lets you put a semicolon after it or use it in an if() statement without braces, etc, without things breaking horribly.
+12:56 <@matches> But... your assert doesn't actually assert anything?
+12:56 < sulix> That's because you generally only want it enabled in debug builds.
+12:56 <@matches> I guess
+12:57 < sulix> So typically you'd have it as do {} while(0) in release builds, and something like a function call in debug builds.
+12:57 <@matches> So what is this "more code" going to do :P
+12:57 < sulix> Slightly more modern opengl.
+12:58 <@matches> Yeah, that would be a good idea
+12:58 < sulix> In particular, uploading the content of a document to a VBO, and just re-rendering from that when needed.
+12:58 <@matches> Cool
+12:58 < sulix> Jumps from 9 fps -> 37 fps with 1024^2 objects.
+12:59 < sulix> I've been without internet, though, so it's pretty broken in many ways, still.
+12:59 < sulix> Like outline rects don't work.
+12:59 < sulix> And it still uses a bunch of OpenGL 1.0 stuff.
+12:59 < sulix> And for some reason the glPrimitiveRestartIndex() function isn't working.
+13:00 < sulix> Also I need to write shaders at some point, which will be work.
+13:00 <@matches> I just found the best comment in an IEEE email list
+13:00 <@matches> We should totally use it
+13:01 <@matches> "It is too late now to repair the mistakes of the past that are present in millions of installed systems, but it is good to know that careful research before designing hardware can be helpful"
+13:01 < sulix> Oh man, that's basically the thesis in one sentance.
+13:02 <@matches> Dibs!
+13:02 <@matches> Although I doubt anyone will care if we both quote it
+13:03 < sulix> One thing I did discover reading my OpenGL book is that I think we can get OpenGL to use doubles with some shader hackery.
+13:03 <@matches> :O
+13:03 < sulix> Then again, the book was (partly) written by (one of) the authors of fglrx, so take it with the requisite salt.
+13:04 <@matches> Ah, so how many goats were required?
+13:05 < sulix> Just the two, I think.
+13:06 <@matches> This email message seems sort of vaguely relevant? It's the "infamous double rounding problem"
+13:06 < sulix> I take it that you worked out how to swap between CPU and GPU transforms with right-click.
+13:07 <@matches> I read it in the commit message
+13:08 < sulix> I was quite happy with how much nicer things ran with CPU transforms and doubles.
+13:08 <@matches> I think I can see a difference zooming in far enough
+13:08 <@matches> Yeah that's a huge difference
+13:08 <@matches> I had a tester that was going to automatically make images of the difference when you zoomed in really far
+13:09 <@matches> But there were issues with the screen shot / bmp rendering
+13:09 <@matches> Probably the bmp rendering
+13:09 < sulix> .bmp files suck.
+13:10 <@matches> They are nice and simple though?
+13:10 <@matches> At least, the SDL API is nice and simple
+13:10 < sulix> That's more a triumph of SDL than of the .bmp file format.
+13:10 <@matches> After looking through gm6 files with a hex editor to try and extract sprites...
+13:11 <@matches> Well we could always just fwrite the pixel buffer and fread it back
+13:11 <@matches> If you want no one to be able to use our files without compiling our program :P
+13:12 < sulix> I'm personally a fan of LodePNG, but I'm too lazy to hack it in at the moment: http://lodev.org/lodepng/
+13:13 < sulix> I'm probably going to get around to fixing all of the warnings in stb_truetype one day.
+13:13 <@matches> Haha
+13:13 <@matches> What about implementing an Oct-tree?
+13:14 <@matches> So .bmp is just a header and then the raw pixel data? What's disgusting about that? No compression?
+13:16 <@matches> Wait png is also just a header and then an IDAT section
+13:17 <@matches> Oh well you can put lodepng in if you want I guess
+13:17 <@matches> As long as I can open the images in eom
+13:18 <@matches> Ah so PNG is compressed. I missed that
+13:19 <@matches> Meh
+13:19 <@matches> Oh and alpha channel
+13:19 <@matches> Yeah
+13:19 <@matches> I remember that now
+13:20 <@matches> xpaint is the least shitty of the shitty sprite editors in debian, but it only stores RGB because it was designed around bmp and I guess they just hacked on exporting to other formats later
+13:21 <@matches> If you open things with alpha it gets really confused
+13:23 < sulix> You can put alpha in .bmp files, but then they sometimes crash KDE.
+13:26 <@matches> We can just run all our bmp files through image magick
+13:26 <@matches> convert a.bmp a.png
+13:26 <@matches> Done
+13:27 <@matches> Hmm, maybe if I opened the data from the gm6 files as png they would work, I was assuming they were bmps -_-
+13:27 <@matches> Actually gif
+13:27 <@matches> Probably
+13:28 <@matches> Since it has "Save as gif"
+13:28 <@matches> But that is not relevant to this project
+13:33 < sulix> Damn, just discovered that the opengl feature I was using for rectangle outlines is not supported by my laptop's hardware.
+13:34 < sulix> (This explains one of the bugs I've been seeing, but sadly only one)
+13:47 < sulix> Okay, remaining code pushed.
+13:47 < sulix> I am sorry.
+13:53 <@matches> I'm messing around trying to do something evil so I'll merge later
+13:53 <@matches> But you don't seem to call ToggleGPUTransform when there is a right click
+13:54 <@matches> Oh wait, I need to make clean
+13:54 <@matches> Cool
+13:54 <@matches> (So much for our Makefile magically tracking the header files :S)
+13:58 < sulix> It does it for every header file except ones included by main.cpp because of the weird main.cpp swapping stuff.
+13:59 <@matches> That main swapping stuff is amazing
+13:59 <@matches> It is worth it
+13:59 <@matches> Except main.cpp ends up eventually including all the header files
+14:00 <@matches> I think there is an alternative Makefile that just has every single header file in the current directory as a dependency for each .o file
+14:01 <@matches> But I'm normally used to running make clean anyway
+14:22 <@matches> Eh I was going to make a video of the difference between GPU and CPU coord transforms but it's not that great
+14:23 <@matches> Whatever you have done does not look happy
+14:24 < sulix> It takes like 5 minutes to DebugDumpObjects with a million objects, but it works okay* after that.
+14:24 <@matches> Yeah ok
+14:24 < sulix> *well, sort-of.
+14:25 < sulix> If you just want to show off the precision, getting rid of most of those objects is probably the right thing to do.
+14:25 <@matches> Interesting things happen when you zoom out really far
+14:25 <@matches> Do we care about that
+14:25 < sulix> I'm going to go with "no".
+14:26 <@matches> Ah, but the rectangles are not all the same size
+14:26 < sulix> This is a product of rounding to the nearest pixel. They'd be fine with antialiasing.
+14:29 <@matches> I have pushed a single line contribution
+14:29 <@matches> I decided not to bother with all the changes I made to make the video prettier
+14:29 <@matches> Since I can't actually capture my desktop properly anyway
+14:30 <@matches> I suppose I could make it render bmps and ffmpeg them all but that is way too much effort
+14:31 <@matches> So
+14:31 <@matches> Literature Reviews
+14:31 <@matches> They are a thing
+14:38 <@matches> I probably should not reference an email thread
+14:53 <@matches> In other news, I think this jvm FPU doesn't actually implement sqrt
+14:57 <@matches> It always gives 0x0 on sqrt ops
+14:57 <@matches> I certainly hope there isn't a jvm somewhere that just doesn't do square roots
+14:58 <@matches> They probably hacked it into some other part of their project instead of putting it in the FPU
+16:08 <@matches> So fprintf style formatting isn't very clever when it comes to floats vs doubles vs long doubles
+16:11 <@matches> Eg: %lf will work for either floats or doubles and %f will work for either floats or doubles (by truncating) but %llf is the only thing that works for long doubles and it only works for long doubles
+16:12 <@matches> s/truncating/casting whatever
+16:52 <@matches> We can compile with long double
+16:52 <@matches> I suspect this may break things but whatever
+16:52 <@matches> Running calculatepi on motsugo to see how much difference it actually makes...
+17:08 <@matches> Charles Babbage seems like an interesting fellow
+17:09 <@matches> "e sought to prove the
+17:09 <@matches> reality of the devil by drawing with his blood a
+17:09 <@matches> circle on the floor and repeating the Lord’s prayer
+17:09 <@matches> backward"
+17:09 <@matches> The things one does for science
+17:44 <@matches> Reading about Charles Babbage counts as Literature Review...
+17:44 <@matches> Actually I'm trying to find a paper written *by* him
+17:44 <@matches> Since apparently he came up with Floating Point representations
+22:11 <@matches> Found an actual paper talking about floating points on GPUs
+22:12 <@matches> It says they don't conform to IEEE and also the manufacturers don't like to tell people what they do do
+22:12 <@matches> So they wrote a version of Paranoia, which was a test program for computers in the 1980s before IEEE, to work out the characteristics of flops on various GPUs
+22:13 <@matches> This is probably of interest
+22:14 <@matches> So far one of the best papers I have on algorithms in software is actually one talking about implementing those algorithms in hardware instead
+22:15 <@matches> I also have a random obituary to Charles Babbage just because
+22:16 <@matches> Unfortunately UWA directs me to some useless website that just tells me the citation details and doesn't give me a download for any of Babbage's papers
+22:17 <@matches> He has some books but they are mostly about economics
+22:18 <@matches> Would have been nice if he'd written something that says "I have invented floating point" but I guess not
+22:18 <@matches> That's only really of historical interest but it'd be nice
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