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You have dug really deep for this rusty thread

Well, for me it's still working, but I have no access to modern LV version and I'm stick to 2009. Maybe some of the nodes are obsolete now.

Have you modified anything? Show your code.

10 minutes ago, hooovahh said:

Where have you been all my life? 

Sorry, I'm not very often here for last few years. Even less on the dark side...

Check out Channel Operations.vi example then

57 minutes ago, Antoine Chalons said:

just thinking out loud, have you tried to use BitMan toolkit to merge the 2 images in one and then display it?

Wow, I'm surprised anyone here remembers this rusty tool

Yes, it should do the job. It is available here: http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/pl/nid/209830

Check out clock.vi example

Sorry to miss your post, I'm not very often here recently.

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When I rotate the view, the chain appears to rotate independently of the axes..... am I required to make a transformation myself?

In my opinion the chain swings like it should. What could mislead you:

1. You modified anchor position offset, so chain won't swing in YZ plane if this is what you expected.
2. This chain is connected with ball joints. Due to cummulating numerical errors the chain may go off the plane after some time (however I'm not observing such behavior). To avoid it use hinge joint if your goal is to have bicycle-like chain.
3. Proportions of the chain in 3D picture will be different (and more natural) than in 2D Graph, because apparently I left non-uniform scales there for x and y axes.

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Also, the mesh reference is not available (closed?) if I do not keep the drawable reference.... is this normal?

The mesh reference becomes invalid once assigned to the object. Instead you should get the object's drawable reference and use "To More Specific Class" primitive to be able to use SetMeshParams method again (picture attached).

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Also, how can I reference the mesh by name instead of by reference ?

You may use "Find Object" block to find an object by name and then get its Drawable property.

For the record - my reply to the same question I received via PM:

Waptia works as generic optimization algorithm - you have to provide a function on a number of parameters and algorithm tries to find such set of parameters values for which the function value is the highest. So you'd have to describe any face with a set of variables and write a function in LabVIEW which evaluates how well given set of their values describe face in the given picture. Personally I doubt Waptia is the right direction for such application and even if it is, it's only one of many blocks needed.

I've created such example some time ago:
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-13861

I think it is somehow related...

From the vomiting point of view it was nothing when compared to:

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/02/Polish_human_centrifuge

which I was also riding in during this project.

Fortunatelly I wasn't sick in both vehicles

I haven't invested too much time in that. All I got was 3ds model loaded into separate window and mouse controller. It was old .NET wrapper to VTK (http://vtkdotnet.sourceforge.net/ as I remember).

Some time ago KitWare relased their wrappers called ActiViz as open source (http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/CSharp/ActiViz.NET). I also tried it but I got only a buch .Net exceptions (also during wiring).

In both cases it was a painful process of converting simple C# examples to LV (long, long, looooong horizontal diagrams)

test vtk activiz.vi

test vtk.vi

Their lawyers think so and it hasn't been challenged in a court of law. And until you've been to court, saying something is legal or illegal is impossible. It is just what your lawyer says is likely to be legal. Yeesh.

It sounds like quantum mechanics

Here it is (lv2009)

3dex.vi

I can't turn anti-aliasing off. Everything is anti-aliased all the time and I'm just not seeing any influence of anti-aliasing property.

Some time ago I performed some benchmarks of Formula Node and the conclusion was that the difference from native code is neglectable (until you don't use arrays in the node). But it was on single core machine. I think that difference you observe comes from execution parallelism.

Isn't this what you are searching for?

Beside it, there is http://ipbwi.com/products

It is in PHP, but it may be usable to see how the things are done.

Lots of Eastern Europe uses 12-XII-2012 or XII-12-2012, where the months are Roman numerals, which has the nice property of being language independent AND distinguishing the day from the month so order isn't ambiguous. I really like this one.

I'm from Europe (And have been to eastern europe) and I would have to say that I've never seen this formatting before. Can NI output this with standard formatters?

As a citizen of country frequently considered as Eastern Europe (being in fact Central Europe), I can say that we very often use this format in handwriting, but I have never seen it in any application...

well, judging by the language of this poster it is rather Śródziemie...

Note: Shipping to Canada and the USA only. Sorry world.

Sorry Sparkfun, you won't get my $50...

... Since Randomize() produces values between 0 and 1 with the ends inclusive, you still can end up with a few potential values outside the range every now and then.

To be precise:

0 <= "Random Number (0-1)" < 1

So rounding towards -Inf is a valid approach

Oh yes, that makes sense....

But even then it is not a correct solution for choosing a random array element. At least when you want uniform distribution. Look at the histogram made for 20-element array and 1e6 choices:

Make a conclusion yourself.

BTW, who said it:

When you think that something is simple, it means that you don't understand the problem

?

Good catch, I'll try arrange palletes better soon

Try to install newest Visual C Redistributable. In my case crashes were appearing for File Dialog in the browser. I suppose that I installed something which had overwritten DLLs of this package with older versions. Installing whole the newest version of it helped.

I see that you generate your texts letter by letter. I'm not sure if it solves your problem, but if you put a space after at the end of each text generated with "Draw Text at Point", clipping disappears. Complete walkaround could be that you calculate size of text without the space, but draw it with one.

1. Install any number of useful tools in one go: right click framework, quick drop short cuts

2. Add useful OpenG tools

3. Update the configuration file to set settings different from the defaults that LV offers

4. Change the default custom probes

5. Fix bugs that the community has prioritized

+ customized splashscreen

(I still use 2009 through choice).

How good I'm not alone...

2. Isn't most of what you are proposing exactly what the JKI thingy is for? (and I still argue that NI should have their own)

Maybe JKI should think of something like meta-package? As collection (but not physical) of packages to be installed together. A set of customized collections for different needs (possibly with auto choosing newer versions of updated packages) would be much easier to create and maintain than "one big patch".