Pat Marion
Pat Marion
VTK ----- Starting today, `director/master` targets vtk6+. Previously the required version was vtk5. The recommended version is vtk 7.1.1. VTK 8 will be released soon and may become the recommended...
VTK has an exporter for povray. It actually works. With a little TLC this might be useful for making flashier movies. 
On some machines, such as Ubuntu 14.04, importing python modules can trigger an error that looks like: ``` import pydrake.solvers.ik as pydrakeik File "/home/ubuntu/workspace/linux-clang-experimental-debug/build/install/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pydrake/solvers/ik.py", line 5, in from ._pydrake_ik import...
This class has been collecting a lot of code over the years and I'm thinking about splitting out some of the functions and cleaning up the design. Just a heads...
I thought that Director had a mode to listen for PARAM_UPDATE channel, but I'm not sure how to make that work. I only know how to pass -c on the...
There's a bug that causes the panel to resize itself to an unnecessarily large width for an instant, this breaks the main window sizing which is very annoying if you...
A common problem is that planning code calls single shot IK to plan an end pose, then plans a posture goal to the end pose. The end pose may be...
Task execution, failures, and status messages should be logged in LCM so that we can later extract statistics about task execution performance. We could log the start/stop times of each...
Some mac osx users have been having trouble with their build because they have conflicting versions of dependencies installed in their PATH (qt, vtk, or python). We could help them...