CCB Shape meeting - 13 Jul 2005

Items Discussed

• CCB meeting in November
• JNI Interfaces to R
• Restricting which data attributes are read into a shape
• Checking that the size of a data attribute matches the size of the shape component with which it is associated.
• ShapeViewer - status of adding Minc OBJ support.
• Possibility of two releases between now and Nov.
• Effect of Loni move to new building (est. 1 wk. downtime).
• Need for better Ucf attribute usage documentation
• Need better organized CVS archive
• Jeff's ColorMap editor
• Current projects
  • ShapeTools library
  • ShapeViewer viewer
  • RShape interface to ShapeTools from within R statistics package.
• need for more people to use library
• Next release date for end of August (5 weeks = 3 weeks development, 1 week testing, 1 week Loni Move).

Decisions

• We'll do two releases before the November CCB meeting.
• First release (v1.1.0) focus on functions visible to users
• Following release may include programmer level utilities to use grid computing resources

To Do for Next Meeting

• [X] Craig - assist Jeff with completing (Craig's) start on addind Minc obj to ShapeViewer
• [X] Craig - Organize and improve CVS archive contents of ShapeTools.
• [X] Craig - Write Ucf Data Attribute programmers' reference.
• [ ] Craig - add checks to prevent unintentional mismatch between lengths of data attrbutes and their associated Shape compoonents
• [ ] Craig - Create first version of a generic read() method that determines how to read a file.
• [ ] Craig - add ucf data attribute annotations support.
• [ ] Jeff - Debug Craig's Minc Obj reading addenda to the ShapeViewer.
• [ ] Jeff - Begin adding ability for each displayed shape to have it's own color map.
• [ ] Jeff - add capcacity to set the vertex colors of a shape according to it's data attributes.
• [ ] Roger - More RShape interface development.