Agenda

• Meeting Presentation Report
• Status of prior week's items
  • [ ] - Craig - Off writer
  • [ ] - Craig - Applet shape viewer software download distribution
  • [X] - Craig - final touch up to Software products handout.
  • [X] - Craig - Compile R for SGI (if possible).
  • [ ] - Craig - test pipeline wrapper for ShapeViewer
  • [X] - Craig - define a starter project for Bae Cheol.
  • [X] - Jeff - add ShapeViewer code to CVS if not already done.
  • [X] - Jeff - add VFSBrowser code to CVS if not already done.
  • [ ] - Jeff - respond to ShapeViewer bug reports.
  • [ ] - Jeff - Report on Java plug-in framework
• Next Development cycle goals
• Development Cycle review
• Next week's to do list.

Discussed

• CCB Meeting notes
  • ShapeViewer, the library and other tools were well received
  • D.Shattuck presented BrainSuite
  • Yalin Wang has viewer which shows his conformal mapping algorithm
  • Paul showed registration methods based on mutual information measures.
  • It ld be good to know which (wiki) web pages are viewed by others.
  • Users of ShapeViewer want to know the value of the data attribute(s) at a selected vertex.
  • Two groups were particularily interested in ShapeTools: Statistical Modelling, and Conformal Mapping.
  • Timeline for next meeting: by April have: Testimonials, global distribution -> focus on polishing tools & documentation.
  • David Shattuck - group has a plug-in architecture that supports synchonization between mulitple views (of an image vol.).
• Development cycle review
  • we completed one development cycle when we had expected two.
  • Feature creep delayed completion of prodcuts.
  • Feature creep added valuable features.
  • Mantis works well.
  • Testing would be improved by having a Macintosh available (to Jeff).
  • We did not have the planned developer release.
  • End user support could have been improved.
  • There is little communications between the various CCB groups.

Decisions

• Next Development cycle focus: Complete and polish existing tools and documentation , for Jan 1.
  • Code Review - to stabilize the library interface.
  • Examples of how to write a file parser.
  • Tools list (for Jan.due date).
    • ShapeViewer
    • ShapeViewer applet
    • ShapeTools
    • InterpolateContour
    • ShapeDistance
    • Mesh curvature tool.
    • VFSBrowser

To Do for Next Meeting

• [X] - Craig - Complete Off Reader (some variants - OFF, COFF, NCOFF).
• [ ] - Craig - Applet shape viewer software download distribution
• [X] - Craig - Notify M. Pan of that ShapeViewer may be used to view Ucf files.
• [X] - Craig - test pipeline wrapper for ShapeViewer
• [X] - Craig - ask Sys Admin's for a way to find which wiki web pages are viewed.
• [X] - Craig - get lists of frequently used surface formats from Yalin, Daniel.
• [X] - Craig - more Latis enhancements (partially done).
• [ ] - Jeff - respond to ShapeViewer bug reports.
• [ ] - Jeff - Report on Java plug-in framework