Current events

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25 Sep 2006 - Back from Europe after attending the OSGeo meetings at the FOSS4 conference in Lausanne Switzerland. A lot of good discussions there with QGis and the DM Solutions group. Garrett has been busy, he has restructured the tesselation away from a dual hemisphere model to a cube base. This removes many problems when viewing in polar areas and provides much better performance and level of detail tesselation of textures. He also mentioned that he successfully loaded one of the urban models from Precision Lightworks using OpenSceneGraph 1.2. There was a glitch in that the shared library for OpenFlight models has been renamed and wasn't immediately reflected in the Mac OSX distro. This is being worked by Eric Wing.

One of the areas that we are looking for help on is how to link two different clients together to share events. We would like to demonstrate remote collaboration on the planet where two linked ossimPlanet applications could be looking at the same view and both instances could control at least the navigation. At first we were talking about remote x windows, but really need some sort of shared event passing that allows both machines to render the same views locally. If anyone has any thoughts or ideas we would sure like to hear them.

Both Garrett and I will be getting some high end MacPros. That will allow us to run and build on several operating systems - OSX, Linux (probably SUSE), Windows NT for a start. We will be running the Parallels Virtualization software and have plenty of disk to set up multiple environments. Hopefully those will arrive within the next couple of weeks and we can do a better job at automating the packaging for various platforms.

Thanks for all of the people helping to test and develop the software. We'll see you on #ossimPlanet.

Mark and Garrett