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Programmer’s block. I have absolutely no idea where to start on this project, so I’m going to make some buttons. Urrh. I tried that. Pseudocode? What’s wrong with real code? Ahhh. It’s real cold. Maybe firewood will help. Yeah. Let’s try that, then.

In Search of a More Suitable _vimrc [ windows 7,blender 2.5/2.6 ,gvim7.3]

Here’s my current _vimrc:

---

set gfn=consolas:h12:cANSI
set ruler
syntax on
set bs=indent,eol,start
set mousef
set expandtab
set sts=4
let g:activeb = 'Win7.x64-42256'
function! BlenderBG ()
  exec '!C:\Users\dust\blender\'.g:activeb.'\blender.exe -b -P %'
endfunction
function! Blender ()
  exec '!C:\Users\dust\blender\'.g:activeb.'\blender.exe -P %'
endfunction

map <F8> :w<CR>:call Blender ()<CR>
imap <F8> <ESC>:w<CR>:call Blender ()<CR>

map <F9> :w<CR>:call BlenderBG ()<CR>
imap <F9> <ESC>:w<CR>:call BlenderBG ()<CR>

imap <F19> <ESC>:w<CR>:!c:\Users\dust\desktop\test.bat<CR>
map <F19> :w<CR>:!c:\Users\dust\desktop\test.bat<CR>

---

Also, I keep a text file named edset.bat on the desktop with this line in it:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim73\gvim.exe" "c:\Users\userblahnameblah\_vimrc"

That way, editing the _vimrc is all set up to happen whenever necessary.

The thing that ties it all together is the windows 7 feature called ‘Libraries’.

Here is how:

• I make a folder called ‘blenders’, obviously for keeping blenders inside of. I put it in my home folder, so that there are no spaces in the path.
• Then I make a library, call it Blenders, and add said ‘blenders’ folder as the default save location.

Having it set up this way makes it easy to group together any additional folders (or Libraries) that pertain to the usage of blender, such as \Users\blahname\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.60\.

Other possibilities include:

• blender’s temp folder
• the Render output folder
• blender’s save directory ( blender scenes)
• Texture Libraries ( yet another ‘Library’)
• py, ( the Library for all the python snippets and random python crap)

Onto the py library, I add the folder with local pdf reference materials, so those two are grouped together.

This is just to give hopefully a few inspirations to people using blender on the windows 7 platform.

meta-topokit

a meta operation consists of:
which objects to operate on
scanning the mesh topological data
loading transient states like selection
performing an operation which alters the state
putting the altered state back to the mesh
performing optional post-selection operations such as:
caching the topological data for reuse
preserving the current state for reuse
creating or assigning vertex groups to selection
duplicating selection at offset
duplicating selection to new mesh at offset
assigning material to face selection
changing vertex colors
altering edge sharpness
marking seams
logging,catalogueing,hashing,indexing state data (by generation,base object,history sequence of meta-ops)
repeating and checking states vs previous (all) in order to detect cyclical repition
combination/permutation layout of finite set of subgenerations
e.g., all children of base-mesh X and set of operations f1 and f2:
(X,f1)
(X,f2)
grandchildren:
(X,f1,f1)
(X,f1,f2)
(X,f2,f2)
(X,f2,f1)
or all children of base meshes X and Y with operation f1:
(X,f1)
(Y,f1)

topokit almost done except for the conway’s life part

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