Meeting Minutes


This page is an internal page to share information among the team members regarding discussions in the weekly meetings and consequent developments.


Sept 16

This meeting focussed on possible current enhancements that should be made to the existing TVR demo including addition of Living Worlds concepts in the form of "PROTO" nodes and if required in form of Java classes,replacement of existing cones by real-life human avatars built to meet the exact specifications of the Hum-Anim WG,addition of Database Connectivity concepts using JDBC,a better custom-made user interface written in Java and maybe the most important thing - the definite need for audio teleconferencing support in the very near future - Netmeeting seems to be a good option since it has an open API,hope we get something more concrete on NetMeeting/any other audioconferencing API from Usman/any body interested by Sept 19(Friday meeting).


Sept 24

Action items specified for this week

* Learn about Inverse Kinematics(Balaji)

* Test Binary VRML plugin(Balaji)

* Collect implementation details re. NetMeeting API with respect to audio teleconferencing(new students/Usman).

* Continue development of minimal avatar(Pawan/Balaji).


Oct 2

Action items for this week

* Get more info on inverse kinematics,estimate complexity of implementing an algorithm using it (Balaji/Siddharth)

* Start writing some collaborative applets in Java,get introduced to JSDA (Vivek,Abba,Sunil)

* More details on NetMeeting API(Usman)

* Start some practical work on CORBA (sachin)

* Start discussions with Shrideep re. porting of TVR to iiop-based collaborative API (Balaji)



Action items attended to during past week : Oct 2 - Oct 7

* Page on inverse kinematics put up with link to thesis works,sample Arm Animator Applet using Inv.Kinematics solutions - Balaji

* Discussed with Shrideep re. running current TVR over iiop-API - Shrideep is currently documenting his collaborative appln - once this is over, porting of TVR demo over this API will be done ASAP by me. - Balaji.

* Tested Binary VRML plugin - actually this plugin dowloads the compressed VRML file in binary format(.wrb), uses a binaryVRML-AsciiVRML converter on the fly to convert it back to ascii format,stores the ascii file(.wrl) in the TEMP directory and uses the current installed VRML plugin to view the .wrl file - Balaji.

* Page for current mini-avatar put up - Balaji.




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