A Virtual Computer Science Community, Meeting 6, 4/5/04, 3pm

Announcements

Grant: The NSF grant will start this Fall semester, September 1.

There will be

1 grad student campus liaison (NNMCC, 30 hrs./week), ~$30K
4 grad student RA positions 20 hrs./week, approx. ~$17K

This group will have first consideration; if you would like to be considered for one of these positions, please let me know and give me your resume. Selection will be based on performance on the project, as well as additional factors such as grades.

End-of-semester: if you are registered for credit, it is time to start planning your end-of-semester report. Write an abstract and an outline. If you are in the first semester of a master's project, you should think of this report as a "master's project proposal", and select (with my approval, and theirs) a 2nd CS faculty member for your committee.

Avatar Demo - Jose

Jose is commissioned to develop an "avatar editor" and a simple file format so the local client's selected appearance can be stored and reloaded each run.

Graphics Status: scaling to n rooms

Ray has produced some smaller textures. Between those and material (i.e. non-textured) surfaces, we should be able to scale up our demo some more.

Korrey reported today that I need to look into a problem with Clone(), which I had proposed we use for texture caching.

VRML and level editors - Wynn

Wynn produced a great looking demo using a commercial tool, but the VRML it generated was unwieldy and didn't look good.

Now Wynn has been commissioned to produce a simple handwritten VRML demo equivalent to our please lab, and to develop a "level editor" that edits (our simplified subset of) VRML.

Network status: Have we Integrated Some Chat Yet?

Audio status

I saw an over-the-network (Windows-to-Windows) demo last week. What's new?