VITAL Updates

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This page is intended for VITAL Lab members to keep each other updated on recent activities and accomplishments. Keep the most recent updates on top.

Date	Name	Activities	Status	Link to deliverables
11/09/2008	Neiman	SecondWATCH tool	I have gotten CVS actions such as added or removed files/packages to reflect correctly in the visualizations. A few bugs remain however. Also I have gotten each revision to show up as a small box. I did not get it to color according to author yet. Also local changes made to files make them glow in visualization now. here are a few screenshots. the first one is visualization of a big project with large number of revisions for each file. second screenshot is of small project, with one source file being changed locally. Third screenshot is result of commiting local change made in screenshot 2, and new revision box adding to that file.	[[1]] [[2]] [[3]]
11/07/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Continued work on interior (floors, 90%; textured all standing prims; started work on Food Court objects)
11/06/2008	Neiman	Smithsonian Elevator Script	modified Andy's elevator script.	http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=privatevital:elevatorscript
11/05/2008	Neiman	Smithsonian DB CMS	I created php script to put the data entered in html form made by Ying into MySQL DB. I also made editing feature, and browse through all assets feature.	http://giga2.cs.ohiou.edu/~neiman/vital/smithsonian/db/search.php
11/02/2008	Neiman	Second Life Chat bot	I have begun working on menu type chat bot in Second Life. I have started thinking about the type of chat bot like Unype. Perhaps we could pick out keyword questions like What, Where, When and then relate them to specific nouns or subjects that we have in Museum? Like what is Salsa dance? What is Latino culture, Where is Mr. Alejandro some_last_name? We are making the database for artifacts for LVM right now, perhaps I could use that to make chat bot provide information about different artifacts.
11/02/2008	Neiman	SecondWATCH	Coordinates and sizes are sent through IPC channel now, and there is simple buffer mechanism to hold off certain IPC messages until Quantum Strip map algo is done.
10/31/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Mall exterior reworked, interior 40% complete (layout finished, placing stores, railings, etc.)
10/29/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Added to and temp textured 3rd building, looked for final textures
10/27/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Temp texturing on hotel, 50% of store
10/27/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Mall work: Exterior Texturing complete
10/24/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Mall work: Reworked and finished 95% of external architecture, 25% textured
10/24/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Store complete, 3rd building 95%
10/23/2008	Neiman	Quantum Strip map algorithm	I have fixed size issues. Here is a screenshot. Compare it with the previous one i posted on this page, as they both visualize same project.	[[4]]
10/22/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Worked on Mall, External 70% complete
10/21/2008	Neiman	LVM Audio Streaming	complete. Only mp4 format seems to play, but it works well with streaming audio from second life. I hosted bunch of files converted to mp4 in http://bobcat5.cs.ohiou.edu/Music/mp4 Many thanks to Sertac for his help on this.
10/20/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Store 95% complete
10/19/2008	Neiman	SecondWATCH Quantum Strip Map	I got the spacing between packages working, as well as making deeper packages lighter color. It is a lot easier to read structure now using this. I have to fix the sizes though, sometimes the strip's height is too big, and a lot of space goes unused.	[[5]]
10/17/2008	Sukys	AccelerateU/Credit Union	Courtroom completed, Apartments remodeled [6 bottom, 4 middle, 2 top](texturing and furnishing upcoming)
10/17/2008	Neiman	Smithsonian ChatBot	I found a nice light-weight text-only SL client. It doesnt do any 3d, but it is possible to log into second life using it and teleport around and chat with people. Making a chat-bot using it would be optimal, since we can have the program running all the time without much resource hogging.	http://www.metabolt.net/
10/15/2008	Neiman	SecondWATCH CityView	Quantized Strip TreeMap algorithm is implemented now, however few bugs remain. In some cases children package artifacts are outside of the parent's artifact. That is the blue rectangle on top steps outside its parent blue rectangle on bottom. Despite this, all of the files, which are represented by red, tall rectangles are always inside its parent blue package rectangle. I need to fix this bug, and also make this more visually appealing by creating controllable gaps between children packages, and making parent packages larger than children ones, even if they contain same amount of files. This is to make it look more like what En proposed in his presentation a couple of weeks ago. After this I will change the way coordinates are sent to LSL script inside artifacts so it will be a lot faster and robust than now.	[[6]]
10/14/2008	Sukys	AccelerateU Island (3)	Courtroom Construction 100%, Texturing 30%
10/14/2008	Neiman	SecondWATCH CityView	Getting close to having this done. I am in process of implementing Quantitized Strip TreeMap. After this I will change the way coordinates and scale is sent to SL to make it much faster than it is now.
10/14/2008	Knittel	VITAL Movies	placed all the audio files for the LVM on the steam server	~VITALLab/public_html/Latino_Museum_Audio
10/14/2008	Knittel	VITAL Movies	fixed the broken links, added the new file sizes and placed a few more of the files on the Steam server.	VITAL Videos
10/13/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Resized Mexican hotel, looked for reference photos, Store 40% complete
10/13/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Shopping Mall, Exterior 40%
10/12/2008	Ozercan	Credit Union Island	Updated storyline diagram to include Nurse profession and more random events/changes.	[[7]]
10/12/2008	Ozercan	Credit Union Island	Implemented multiplayer feature for buying a house from another player.
10/10/2008	Zhong	HUD in LVM Main Lobby	Updated the appearance of the HUD and gave the HUD to client for evaluation.
10/10/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Mexican hotel complete
10/8/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Mexican hotel 5%
10/8/2008	Sukys	AccelerateU Island (3)	Courtroom 30% complete
10/6/2008	Mapes	STEAM Magazine	All edits 100% done, ready to print
10/6/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Built & placed newbie orientation screens.
10/6/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Apartments complete
10/6/2008	Zhong	Dissertation Topic Selection	Overview of Software Product Line (SPL)	[working_area]
10/5/2008	Neiman	SecondWATCH TreeMap implementation	I added few extra classes that fill the artifact information as Repository change event is detected. After all artifacts are in, tree is constructed. I did not implement actual treemap yet, but have a tree data structure to work with now. I have also compiled Javadocs for this project, and hosted them on giga2.	[[8]]
10/3/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Roof landscaping done, looked at screens for orientation area.
10/3/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Ramp complete, Apartment texturing 70%, furnishing 80%, some road landscaping done
10/2/2008	Neiman	SecondWATCH Design Document	It is about 80% done now. Many thanks to Hiep and Joshua for their contributions and help.	[[9]]
10/2/2008	Neiman	Smithsonian LVM project	created map HUD with 2 teleportable locations. Also a button that brings up, or removes the hud.
10/2/2008	Knittel	VITAL Movies	88% completed	VITAL Videos
10/1/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Ramp base architecture completed and connected to freeway, railing started
10/1/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Roof Landscaping 70%
9/30/2008	Neiman	SecondWATCH	copied the old design document into a wiki page, and started adding on to it. It is perhaps 60% done. It is hard to estimate.	[SecondWATCH DesignDoc]
9/30/2008	Knittel	VITAL Movies	85% completed	VITAL Videos
9/29/2008	Neiman	SecondWATCH	Presented Java RMI idea for 3D IDE.	[[10]]
9/29/2008	Neiman	LVM	Coded simple video player, after Andy's help. It can switch between videos whose URLs are stored in a list.	SimpleMediaPlayer |
9/29/2008	Goodnite	STEAM	Created Research Area on wiki
9/29/2008	Goodnite	General	worked on some budget issues
9/29/2008	Goodnite	EduTech	updated more president signs
9/29/2008	Goodnite	Smithsonian	Fixed video screen and figured out webpage on a prim problem
9/26/2008	Mapes	STEAM Magazine	99% completed -- will finish over weekend	link title
9/26/2008	Knittel	Created VITAL Videos Page	75% completed	VITAL Videos
9/26/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Placed railing on entirety of freeway (100%), built apartment complex concept and placed multiples, altered freeway architecture
9/26/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Roof Landscaping 40%
9/26/2008	Goodnite	EduTech	I updated three more building signs with president information	-
9/26/2008	Goodnite	Virtual Worlds	I researched and downloaded a new virtual world called RealXtend. It's a more developed version of Open Sim that includes "plugins" that allow this version of Open Sim to edit the avatars and create outfits. It also has a skype plugin, we may want to use their source code as a starting point if we get the CATS project	www.realxtend.org
9/26/2008	Neiman	LVM, SecondWATCH	I made some simple scripts that offer 3 different ways of teleportation in Second Life. They are in the scripts page of this wiki. I am studying the source code right now for 3D IDE, and trying to figure out how to modify/add to it so it will rez CVS view using treemap algorithm. I have moved some stuff around in modified SL client source code and recompiled it, and it ran the same. What I did exactly is put some classes into their own .h/.cpp files. This concerns llviewerwindow.cpp which had those class definitions that are now stand-alone.
9/23/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Roof Landscaping 5%
9/23/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Roads 85% (Highway, 70%, Ground, 90%), Lagoon Sculpted, Hub 15%
9/22/2008	Knittel	Created VITAL Videos Page	60% completed	VITAL Videos
9/22/2008	Armstrong	LVM Main	Landscaping, 95%
9/22/2008	Sukys	Credit Union Island	Roads, 70%
9/22/2008	Mapes	STEAM Magazine	90% completed	link title
9/18/2008	Goodnite	Reserved STEAM Demo Location	Walter 145
9/18/2008	Goodnite	Created SL Scripts Page	Done	SL Scripts