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Weekly Group Meetings

Our weekly meetings are on Fridays from 11am-12:30pm in Atkinson Hall room 2004. Every week one group member demonstrates their latest results.

Demo Schedule

4/17/09	Andrew
4/24/09	Jordan
5/1/09	Han
5/8/09	Mabel
5/15/09	Sasha
5/22/09	no meeting
5/29/09	Philip
6/5/09	Jurgen
6/12/09	Lelin
6/19/09	Leo

Notes 5/15/09

• Fire demos on Thursday:
  • StarCAVE: HMI, LOOK, Blackbox, Panoview, Spatialized Sound
  • Varrier: HPWREN wildfire
• Daniel Acevedo/KAUST joined Calit2 until July 1st

• plugin policy:
  • no loading of any geometry in init()
  • no touching the object space in init()
  • no loading delay in init()

• google sketchup pro has been ordered

• andrew: saitek integrated, optitrack completed; optitrack cameras moved; alioscopy depth compression improved; thumb works again
• mabel: removed geometry in fans; started blue-gene project
• daniel tenedorio: covise installed
• han: force all cave nodes to load all geometry: setCullingActive(false), then in the next frame reset to true
• jordan: implemented lookup table
• lelin: openvrui icons are in covise/icons/UI
• sasha: problem with contexts: need to load textures once per OpenGL context; cut SunGod images in half

TODO:

• get tripods for optitrack cameras, or mount some on ceiling
• schedule covise vtc
• jurgen: ask steve for blue-gene data

Notes 5/8/09

• larry reviewing demos on Monday 1pm – email has been sent
• run cave in 10gig
• move optitrack to jvc once alioscopy tested
• jordan: problems multiplying values from two textures
• han: padding
• jurgen: get google sketchup pro
• trish: contingency plan for cave failures
• john Ratcliffe: move cell phone repeater?
• covise vtc: does covise support multiple buttons? can view all be done more centrally by head node to avoid sync issues?
• harris fire: put on wiki
• daniel: add more buttons to covise
• mabel: reu