| If you're absolutely, positive dying for some excuse to do this (i.e. I don't currently have the budget to pay you anything to do it), I work in a manufacturing environment where we are using a postgresql database to store bills of materials for parts. One of the things we also have to do is to figure out is what combination parts cut out of a piece of sheet metal will waste the least amount of material--your standard nesting problem. It would be useful to have the ability to use a single computer to store all the part dimensions in the database using the various postgres geometry stuff (which we're not currently doing) and then be able to flingin brute force fashion zillions of shapes at the GPU in all different orientations to get the best combination of bills of materials that would use the least amount of metal. Aren't you sorry you asked? ;) -- Ilan On Jun 8, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Billings, John wrote:
Ilan Volow "Implicit code is inherently evil, and here's the reason why:" |
