Meeting Agenda - 2000.05.17

May 17th, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Chris O' Sullivan

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Jason Ang

Coffee hour this week:

Shalini Aggarwal

Coffee hour next week:

???

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, May 24th, 2000

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Jasmin Patry

Technical presentation:

Mike McCool

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Selina Siu (May 31st)
2. Mauro Steigleder (June 7th)
3. Daming Yao (June 14th)

Tech Presenters:

1. Kevin Moule (May 31st)
2. Chris O'Sullivan (June 7th)
3. Selina Siu (June 14th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Jasmin Patry

Title:

Progressive Meshes

Abstract:

A Progressive Mesh (PM) is a data structure that defines a continuous level-of-detail (LOD) representation of a triangle mesh of arbitrary topology. The PM representation of a geometric model can be used for mesh simplification, progressive transmission, mesh compression, and realtime LOD; extensions to the PM framework have been developed that allow view-dependent refinement (useful for large terrain meshes, for example). In this talk I will give an overview of the PM construction algorithm, and present some results from my implementation of the algorithm.

6. General Discussion Items

• One of mud's disks suffered a hardware failure!
• C.O.R.E. is interested in collaboration---see Tim Lahey
• Henri Tan is in class Wednesdays at 1:30pm. Can we change his status to "in class" on the member list.

7. Action List

• Grant applications to USENIX conference; see Robyn Landers rblanders@math, and http://www.math/~rblander/usenix.
• Graphics Interfaces Conference: May 15-17, Montreal => Now in progress!.
• SIGGRAPH early registration is June 16th
• CITO conference in Ottawa?

8. Director's Meeting

• Hartmut Schirmacher's talk
• Alias has jobs

9. Seminars

• Wednesday, 17 May 2000 at 1:00PM
  Combinatorics and Optimization: Seminar
  Title: "Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Directed strongly regular graphs"
  Speaker: Sylvia Hobart, University of Wyoming, Laramie
  Location: Math & Computer, Room 5136
  


• Wednesday, 17 May 2000 at 3:30PM
  Computer Science: Master's Thesis Presentation
  Title: "Time-lined TCP: a Transport Protocol for Delivery of Streaming Media over the Internet"
  Speaker: Biswaroop Mukherjee, Graduate student, Dept. Computer Science, University of Waterloo
  Location: DC 1331
  


• Wednesday May 24th 2000 at 10:30am
  Title: Rendering Lightfields with Warping
  Speaker: Hartmut Schirmacher
  Location: DC1304
  

10. Lab Cleanup