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Contents

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:

  • GLIF conference on 9/17+18, Jurgen out of town Sept 5-23.

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