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Latest Developments

March 17

Logistics

• The never-ending LDAP problems

– Dave, got your e-mail

• (Can’t change in mycourses)

– Jon, your mail bounced – Let’s settle things after class…

Enter stage left

• Breakout Room 2

– Access now available – See Joanne in CS Office to get set up.

• Swipe card / Enter code
• Door will relock

– Need Samba account if you wish to use CS UNIX file system

• BOR2 machines will not be cleaned
• Email me if you wish an account on BOR2 Machines
• Get Samba accounts from CS sysadmin office

Space…the final frontier

• Upping you CS quota

– Checking on the possibilities – rm-junk

Samba on MUPPETS

• Perhaps we can set up

for all after class?

• Install docs now on

discussion board.

CAVE dwelling

• Still missing 1 projector

– Ordered 2, got 1, but we did get two sound consoles! – Expected real soon. – When it arrives

• Appointment with Team CAVE for physical setup.

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Just another manic monday

• For Monday…

– Each team

• List of

– Tasks (talk more about today) – Responsibilities – Schedule – Plans for checkpoint demonstrations

• Plan on a 1-2 slide presentation on Monday

– Can e-mail me so I can assemble / post as a single presentation

• n Web
• Web site up and running

– E-mail me the URL so I can update the main page

– Grad students

• Topic for Grad report

The meeting of the artistic minds

• Tuesday, March 16

– Marla Schweppe, Walter Wolf, myself – Each flower will be a pre-rehersed vignette

• We’ll need a human actor

– More complex “flower” cues – Music follows emotion of flower not flock? – Story

• Setup?
• Failure in getting nectar
• Flock gets consumed at end

Maya madness

• Latest on getting data from Maya?

– Marla to send a variety of formats – See which one works best – Animation / models – Will post link to their Web site in TEAM section (Team DESIGN) – Exported animations == StageAction

• Note: I will be writing Cue Framework Objects

– Unless someone REALLY wants to volenteer!

• Assumed that Exported Animations is operational.

– Marla might be here today.

• If not…send questions to me…

List additional issues here

• List of FLOCK emotions
• List of ORCHESTRA emotions
• How many bees in FLOCK
• Music: MOOD of scene + Emotion of

FLOCK

• Headphones for ICL6
• Speakers for BOR2 Machines

Technical Issues for Today

• Team tasks

– Critical for performance – Tip: leave networking between physical components to later

• Simulate event sending / receiving
• Except, of course Team INFRASTRUCTURE
• Performance class

Tasks: Team MUPPETS

• Import MAYA Objects
• Import / playback MAYA Animations
• Mechanism for Audience Participation

– Keyboard? / GUI? / Swing? – Audience member avitar? – Definition of Audience interface

• Audio issues:

– Orchestra implementation… – Spatialized sound

• Networking Issues

– Link with Performance object – Later…Hopefully straight forward

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Task: Team UT-CAVE or …

• Hardware / Room setup
• Mechanism for Stage Manager Participation

– Keyboard? / GUI? / Swing?

• Import MAYA Objects
• Import / playback MAYA Animations
• Music interface
• Networking Issues

– Link with Performance object – Probably not as straight forward

• UT object control

Task: Team MUPPETS-CAVE

• Hardware / Room setup
• Mechanism for Stage Manager Participation

– Keyboard? / GUI? / Swing? – View changer

• Projector setting / synchronization

Task: Team FLOCK

• Emotive Model

– Define emotion set – input to model – “Boid” object

• Change position/orientation of “Boid” object

– Definition of Flock interface

• MUPPETS implementation

– Making emotive model work in MUPPETS – MUPPETS implementation of “Boid”

Task: Team MERRY MELODIES

• Emotive Music Model

– Define emotion set – input to model – Must agree upon common “play note” interface (JFugue?) – Definition of Orchestra interface

• MUPPETS implementation

– Make it work in MUPPETS – Integrating common interface with MUPPETS

Tasks: Team VR

• Glove / FOB (6 DOF Motion Tracker)

– Integrate with MUPPETS – Gesture emotion translation – Get positional parameters

• HMD / head tracker

– Set up MUPPETS to be displayed on HMD – Get head tracker to track (with no docs!)

• Library for serial port / USB serial connection I have
• Mouse emulation

– Sync HMD view with data glove

• Enable the actor to view the bees.

Tasks: Team INFRASTRUCTURE

• Implement Performance interface using

M2MI

• Implement event recorder

– Event Recorder Renderman

• If interest or time…Dennis? CGII Project?
• Simulate events of a performance to test

network traffic

– Using event recorder.

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Tasks

• More requirements may be forthcoming as

performance details take shape.

• Questions?

The Performance Object

• Object used to coordinate messages

between Physical Components.

• Thin wrapper over M2MI

– …and getting thinner!

The Performance Object

• Sending messages

– “Borrows” the notion of the M2MI handle. – Interfaces

• Flock
• Orchestra
• CueManager
• Audience

– Implementations

• MUPPETSFlock
• MUPPETSOrchestra
• MUPPETSCueManager, etc.

The Performance Object

• Sending messages

Flock theFlock = Performance.getFlock(); theFlock.setEmotion (FLOCK.HAPPY);

• Will send setEmotion message to all

instances of implemented Flocks.

The Performance Object

• Receiving messages

– Simply appropriately implement the interfaces:

• Flock, Orchestra, CueManager, and Audience

The Performance Object

• Audience members

– The Performance Object will maintain a registry of audience members

Audience joe = Performance.getAudienceMember(“joe”); joe.clap ();

– Sets up Multihandle to all instances of a given audience member in all Physical Components. – Must have methods to add or remove an audience member

• Identify by “seat number”.

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The Performance Object

• Starting the performance

– Responsibility of the Stage Manager. – This will be cue 1. – Note:

• All MAYA objects and prescripted animations will

be preloaded and ready to go before cue 1.

The Performance Object

• Complete javadoc of Performance

Object available Monday.

– At this point, only of interest to Team INFRASTRUCTURE – Will be looking for feedback from TI in case I left something out.

• Questions

For Monday

• Teams

– Web site – Responsibilities / Schedules – 1-2 Slide presentation

• Grad Students

– Grad Report topics

• Instructor

– More status – Performance javadocs – More on Cue Objects.