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Weekly Group Meetings

April 20, 2007

Reports:

• alex/andrew: demoed xvid app w/1 camera
• andrew: porting to sage is next
• karen: osg shader example won't work on lab machines
• alex/karen: glsl sample code won't work on lab 620s, but on windows
• leo: getting 500mbit/s w/UDT; contact venkat at evl because he got 9 gbit out of 10gbit network: installed svn server
• philip: helped daniel w/calit2 loader plugin; worked w/sendhil on pdbseq display
• daniel: got calit2 plugin working; will set default to real size
• vinh: has put superbrowser URLs in config file; using gtkhtml
• michael: working on socket communication

Action items:

• need more chairs -- done
• send wiki instructions and request project summaries -- done
• osg and covise updated, stereo not working yet: fix -- done

Demos next week: alex, philip

April 27, 2007

Reports:

• karen: stereo query in osg doesn't work
• philip/chih: posters for siggraph due today
• leo: prism gets max 2gbit/s to jpeg server: work with qian to fix
• alex: demoed 2 video windows in sage; next is bayer conversion shader, then support for 3-4 streams
• andrew: working on changing bitrate for multiple cameras
• vinh: next week image map will be ready

Demos next week: daniel (complete 1st floor), michael: socket communication

Action items:

• buy 1-2 more pcs for the lab w/linux from Rincon funds -- not going to happen, no funds remaining
• put 4th camera in lab -- done

May 3, 2007

Action item:

• Send back siliconimaging, couldn't get video to show up - silicon imaging's demo software reported bad frames for every frame, were able to connect to it using SDK, but weren't able to pull frames from it -- no funds left, investigate warranty situation

Demos next week: daniel and michael

May 11, 2007

Reports:

• philip: simage not accessible in coin3d; added marker for pdbsequencedisplay
• leo: first work with bplayer
• vinh: fixed bug by rewriting rendering routine
• karen: creating two shaders for depth person looks at, and process other images; fixed problem with texture getting used in opencover
• alex: fixed bug in tile library: now rendering both hd images

Demos next week: vinh, andrew

Action items:

• check for gfx card in both boxes, one needs nvidia -- done
• daniel needs occlusion culling code -- done
• wiki pages missing for: philip -- done

May 18, 2007

• power outage saturday 7-10am, all systems get powered down by 7pm friday

Reports:

• Karen: one shader working; goal for next week: change focal depth by turning dial
• Philip: met w/Sendhil about PDBSequenceDisplay; needs to meet w/Sendhil again to move on; helped TungJu get Wanda ball to work; image plugin: add xray/visible light data set 2.5D
• Daniel: split building in layers: outside w/o bear, cleanroom area, new media arts wing; todo: coin/simage fix w/philip
• Vinh: fixed segfaults, problem: unsynchronized pages when clicking on links
• Alex: fixed tile rendering, showed demo w/andrew on tiled wall
• Leo: got UDT to stream into bplayer, hopes to have demo ready by wednesday night

Demos next week: karen, leo

Action items:

• move vista pc to camera table -- done
• install kvm on camera table -- done
• move two new dells to open spots on tables -- done
• wiki pages missing for: leo, vinh -- done

May 25, 2007

Projects:

• Vinh: webbrowser: testing on tiled display wall, working on multi-window browsing
• Michael: working on integrating time and date into protocol, writing test receiver
• Daniel: will work on culling, working on loading layers separately
• Andrew/Alex: added benchmarking to camera encoding: xvid encoding is bottleneck; next: documentation, meeting w/javier and raj
• Philip: meets w/sendhil about seq display fri noon; implementing zoom w/screwdriver function; generalize joystick implementation in covise

Action items:

• meet w/javier and alex/andrew to discuss Javier's camera access solution - done

Demos next week: jurgen (Geofusion)

June 1, 2007 (Quarter Week 9)

Projects:

• Leo: file corruption problem on jpeg2kserver has persisted w/Reiser FS; deadlock w/UDT in bplayer app
• Daniel: working on culling, simage has not been fixed yet
• Karen: has setNodeMask problem: can't make node invisible and intersectable
• Alex/Andrew: tried COM object method for Silicon Imaging cameras but need older driver; will install on one pc
• Philip: working on image plugin's new interaction
• Vinh: completed webbrowser plugin modifications for varrier, test successful

Action items:

• get simage to work in Coin3D
• talk to rincon/silicon imaging about warranty for broken HD camera
• order 3ds max and polytrans for the lab
• summer jobs for Michael and Daniel
• build rig for Rincon cameras

Demos next week: Philip (new image interaction)

June 8, 2007 (Quarter Week 10, last week of classes)

Projects:

• Leo: fixed deadlock problem with bplayer streaming, can now playback bplayer
• Michael: had busy week w/meetings with Swartz center, will try to have log file recording done by next friday
• Philip: PDBSequencedisplay works now with PDBPlugin, starting implementing UI changes
• Tung-Ju: started working on web browser based on activex
• Karen: moved temporary shader code into drawimplementation, works but needs to fix some bugs
• Alex, Andrew, Vinh: no update, were busy with final class projects

Action items:

• get simage to work in Coin3D
• talk to rincon/silicon imaging about warranty for broken HD camera
• order 3ds max and polytrans for the lab
• summer jobs for Michael and Daniel
• build rig for Rincon cameras

Demos next week: Vinh, Karen

June 15, 2007 (Quarter Week 11, finals week)

Not attending: Philip

News:

• project changes: Leo at Google, Andrew Calit2 scholar, Alex research intelligence project

Projects:

• Daniel: worked on culling, meet w/jurgen on monday at noon to look at culling problem
• Andrew, Alex: worked on documentation, meet w/jurgen on thu at 10:30am to wrap up Rincon project
• Vinh: got wget working, problem w/imagemaps, next week is last week, meet end of week
• Leo: wrote documentation, did some testing
• Karen:

Action items:

• get simage to work in Coin3D
• talk to rincon/silicon imaging about warranty for broken HD camera
• order 3ds max and polytrans for the lab
• summer jobs for Michael and Daniel
• build rig for Rincon cameras

June 22, 2007

Projects:

• Vinh: fixed imagemaps, links work now on varrier
• Alex: met to wrap up Rincon project; started on research information project; found open source library for treemaps
• Andrew: met to wrap up Rincon project; starts next week as Calit2 scholar
• Daniel: still working on culling; needs covise 3ds max exporter for version 9

Action items:

• create login for vinh on vellum -- done
• order 3ds max -- done

June 29, 2007

Projects:

• Karen: clicking on image responds in real time now, almost done
• Andrew: started on new scholarship project
• Iman: got 10k particles to render at 45fps on entire vellum, no scaling issues
• Philip: was out, remodeling kitchen
• Praveen: started on maurizio's
• Michael: worked on communication software for neuroscience project

Action items:

• 3ds Max: done - has arrived

Demos next week: none until cwall is back up

July 6, 2007

Projects:

• Praveen: worked on tracking, problem w/rotational offsets, configured auditorium tracker
• Philip: getting ready to sta

Action items:

• Jurgen: get add'l desk for Philip - done
• Jurgen: set up meeting w/Maurizio and Praveen - done
• Jurgen: talk to Michael about continuation of project - done

Demos next week: none until cwall is back up

July 13, 2007

News:

• cwall is back up and running
• first cwall demo

Projects:

• Karen: observed slowdown on coutsound; performance measurements work now; writing thesis
• Praveen: got tracking to work; image persistence works; next is tracker setup in auditorium
• Philip: started as staff this week; helped on Maurizio project; started working on LOOKING: ossimplanet vis
• Andrew: tiling HD video into 4x2 tiles and using mipmap levels
• Alex: treemaps now data base dependent, lighting correct, allows clicks on treemap to identify data; tag cloud viewer works with sorting, multi-layers
• Michael: moved configuration into covise/config.xml; looked into video plugin
• Daniel: culling works in osgViewer; demo

Demos next week: Alex Z

July 20, 2007

News:

• cwall has dual 7900 cards now

Projects:

• Karen: cwall sped up by factor of ~5
• Tung-Ju: installed pinch gloves, connected lab machine
• Daniel: got culling to work in opencover, works with calit2 building, now adding culling planes and testing at cwall
• Sara: display windows and functions done, legend window is done, next is user interaction
• Alex: will show demo
• Praveen: set up tracker in auditorium, persistent image placement done, next is 4k tracked test, and clipping planes for the image plugin
• Andrew:
• Philip:

Demos next week: cancelled

July 27, 2007

News:

• Dell XPS are going to replace visualtest02

Projects:

• Praveen: tested Cave ART tracker successfully, trying to get clip planes to work; next to test auditorium tracker
• Tung-Ju: installed covise on lab machine; next to fix window 0 error
• Philip: LOOKING has bathymetry; error in OssimPlanet; Jacop project needs progress, review aug 8
• Andrew: found solution to find positions of mipmap vertices on screen
• Sara: got tooltips to work; next is data sheet
• Alex: finished HUD code (list of researchers in tag cloud view), added scroll buttons, mouse-over names; working on arcball control for treemap

Demos next week: Praveen (auditorium, pending availability)

August 3, 2007

News:

• Cave has almost been completed; Siggraph art show Sat-Mon

Projects:

• Sara: got data sheet to work w/Alex's HUD code; next integrating new data
• Karen: was writing on thesis; waiting on XPS's to do performance measurements
• Tung-Ju: got faculty position in Taipeh/Taiwan (congratulations!), leaving late August; training other group members on Opencover
• Alex: integrated tag cloud viewer and tree maps
• Philip: found workaround for Mipmap resolution problem in Image plugin; progress on Ossimplanet/LOOKING; will install covise at Jacopo's on Sun
• Andrew: moved video code into node, allows rendering multiple video streams; next to use varrier
• Daniel: working on 2nd floor
• Michael: trying to reconstruct rotation matrix from up/forward/position; working on video, got screenshots to work
• Praveen: set up ART tracker in cave; helped set up Maurizio's piece; cut out 6 regions of Adoration for show

Demos next week (moved to Monday, 8/13): Karen

August 10, 2007

News:

• Siggraph@calit2 was a success

Projects:

• Alex: has problem with OSG clip node (only one can be active in scenegraph); next to install s/w on 2x2 tiled wall
• Sara: integrated EQVisDrawable to display planet instead of plain sphere; giving presentation today at 1pm
• Philip: worked on Maurizio's presentations, Jacopo's site visit; working on pictures for LOOKING project
• Tung Ju: computers for tiled wall about to be delivered, goal to run Covise for demo on Wed
• Andrew: added feature to maintain frame rate; tested on varrier but needs more time on it
• Daniel: created model for neuroscience project, working on 2nd floor of Calit2 building
• Michael: playback stuck at reconstruction of viewing matrix from direction and up vectors
• Praveen: worked on tracking system setup; Maurizio presentations; added clip box to gallery viewer
• Karen: finished first draft of master's thesis; established contact to JPL

Demos next week: Alex, Praveen

August 17, 2007

News:

• vrml plugin in covise works now

Projects:

• Philip: got covise to work in jacopo's lab; more LOOKING work
• Alex: RI vis project almost complete, but not running on 2x2 system yet
• Tung Ju: Hyperwall is complete
• Sara: completed statistics window: average, maximum, etc; created lab logo; dynamic data point scaling when zooming
• Praveen: clip node problem persists (only one object can be clipped)
• Daniel: modified calit2 model for neuroscience project
• Andrew: finished multi-viewport; osg supports dxt compression, then 15fps possible for HD movie

Demos next week: Andrew

August 24, 2007

News:

Projects:

• Philip: has been working on Jacopo's project towards site visit next Thursday
• Tung Ju: Hyperwall works with covise on 2/3 of screen; will use covise for performance comparison with cglx
• Michael: next step is screenshot writer to create tiff files from log file
• Daniel: worked on neuroscience 3D model and now working on 2nd floor of calit2 building; starting on RI vis on Monday
• Andrew: completed multi-video support; showed demo of 4k galaxy at 20fps on varrier full wall; next: try baraka clip >1 min to evaluate caching effects

Action items:

• get pinch gloves to work: meet w/Tung Ju and Philip after siggraph
• get simage to work in Coin3D
• Jurgen: order polytrans for the lab

Demos next week: Sara