added arbitrary boolean tree support for writing regions/combinations;

[ncsaba]

Hi Bryan,

Another fairly big patch - but it adds quite some news:

• combinations/regions are possible now to be created and saved as arbitrary trees;
• all mk_{shape} wrapper methods have now named parameters with default values, for easy creation of default primitive;
• the framework for primitive wrappers can now: load primitives from the DB file; create fresh new primitive from parameters; save the primitive to the DB (regardless if it was loaded/newly created);

For now only ARB8 and Combination are implemented, but that was enough for a proof of concept. The rest comes next; I'm also quite sure there bugs in there, so lots of more work is needed !

Again the biggest challenge was to figure out memory being freed by BRL-CAD for parameters given to the library functions - all that needs to be also allocated in BRL-CAD code, that's why some copying around is done.

I added also a unit test test_wdb.py, which will replace with time the one in test directory, and then I will delete that directory altogether. For now I still keep that one to quickly visually check that my changes didn't break anything which already worked (I fire up mged for that and display all.r).

Cheers, Csaba

[ncsaba]

I added an example (hilbert_2d/3d) which creates a hilbert curve out of a single pipe primitive.

The focus is not that much on exercising many BRL-CAD feature, but more on showing that complex things are possible with the combination of python and BRL-CAD !

Cheers, Csaba

[kanzure]

Thank you!