Meeting Purpose:

Agenda for 08 March 2006 Shape Tools meeting

Review prior weeks to do items

• [X] Craig - Complete OpenDX read/write (positions+connections surfaces)
• [ ] Craig - extend CGALFaceSet to polygons not triangular.
• [ ] Craig - test Matlab use: create Shape, display with ShapeViewer.
• [ ] Jeff - send Craig a copy of the ShapeViewer that supports calling with a Shape
• [ ] Jeff - test with multiple clients, on different machines.
• [ ] Jeff - make a list on the wiki showing a table of the viewer command language.
• [ ] BaeCheol - complete user guide for ShapeCurvature

New Business

• CCB grant review deadline is coming in May.
  • We will need to be done, including manuals,testing and distribution,

• • We should complete development of current projects in month to allow for bug fixes, documentation, and distribution.

Discussed

• need to have simple translation between Ucf and DX files (DX becuase it is candidate for general ShapeTools file format).
• Calling shape viewer from Matlab:
  • testing not done because Craig could not find a machine with both java3d and matlab.
  • Craig suggests changing call method to: ShapeViewer.display(shape)
• Pros and Cons of using RMI to communicate between ShapeViewer server and ShapeViweer client
• Use of 'iiop' interface to allow C programs to communicate via RMI with a ShapeViewer.
• testing results of current ShapeViewer (server) on Linux, Macintosh.
• need for a tool to convert ucf lines into an evenly triangulated surface
  • want to retain precsion of Ucf lines
  • Existing program (FKU) writes a data format not (yet) supported by ShapeTools^?
• Bae Cheol is working on a program to apply an AIR transform to a shape file's coordinates.
• Bae Cheol needs a routine to invert a matrix , Roger suggested sources for this.
• Craig thinks we should aim for testing the client/server ShapeViewer with 15 clients by a month from now.

Decisions

• Finalize current develoment efforts in 1 month (April 7).
  • This will culminate in :
    • Libraries
      • ShapeTools library v1.2
      • VFSBrowser v 1.0
      • OpenDX read/write library v 1.0
    • Applications
      • ShapeCurvature program v 1.0
      • ShapeViewer program v. 1.2
      • ShapeTransform program v. 1.1.
      • InterpolateContour v.1.0
      • Extract4DUcfAttributes v.1.0

To do for Next meeting

• [ ] Craig - fix errors in library coordinate transformations
• [ ] Craig - add matrix inversion methods to library.
• [ ] Craig - extend CGAL face set to non-triangular faces
• [ ] Craig - debug vertex normal calculation errors.
• [ ] Craig - write simple ucf-> open dx translation.
• [ ] Jeff - Change matlab call interface to shape viewer to ShapeViewer.display(shape);
• [ ] Jeff - change client/server communications to use only Strings (no other java objects).
• [ ] Jeff - test rmiregistry issues on a Macintosh
• [ ] BaeCheol - complete ShapeCurvature manual
• [ ] BaeCheol - review & complete test of ShapeCurvature appl.
• [ ] BaeCheol - complete ShapeTransformation appl.