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RE: BMG (fwd)



i thought this might be interesting.. his floor plan is far simpler than
what i might have imagined.

michael


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:13:14 -0400
From: David Holland <david.holland@cubic.com>
To: 'Michael Craig' <mic@graphics.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: RE: BMG

Hi Michael,

   Thanks for letting me hear from you.  Here is a sample building from
one of our scenarios.  It's from Osan Air Base, South Korea and is
unclassified.

Cheers,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Craig [mailto:mic@graphics.lcs.mit.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:18 PM
To: David Holland
Cc: bmg@graphics.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: BMG



hi,

thanks for your interest. i hope to have some initial code ready for
release in the next week or two. MIT's floor plans--and, we gather, most
all floor plans created--have their own strange and often annoying
problems. the current code is aimed at reading MIT's plans, but in as
general a way as possible. with a little modification it may work fine
on other plans.

room labels are currently used to identify spaces, but i am working on
other ways of finding verifying "correct" rooms.

if you are able to, some sample floor plans of yours might be helpful
for us to look at. let me know if that is possible. we are only taking
DXF files in, and manipulating plans as UniGrafix files the rest of the
way.

let us know if you have more questions.

thanks,
michael


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, David Holland wrote:

> Dear BMG Group@MIT:
>
>     Rapid prototyping of buildings is catching on.  We here at Cubic
> have been working with autocad drawings, bringing them into a format
> known as BRL-CAD (Ballistics Research Laboratory CAD).  Our drawings,
> like many things about the DoD, tend to be "in their own world" and,
> hence, idiosyncratic.  For example, many (but not all) of our drawings

> have no room labels, thus calling for other data extraction strategies

> such as the matching of subgraph isomorphisms.
>
>     You mentioned that the walls module is under heavy development.  I

> was wondering whether, perchance, that part of the pipeline will be
> available in the near future.
>
> regards,
>
> David Holland
> Software Engineer
> Cubic Defense Systems, Inc.
> East Coast Engineering Division
> 6927 Telegraph Road
> Alexandria, Virginia 22310
> (703) 924-3050 (Tel)
> (703) 924-3070 (Fax)
>

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