| Feature |
Notes |
Current status (In Progress, Future Enhancement, Completed) |
| Flightpath control of velocity and acceleration |
|
Future Enhancement |
| Use quaternions for flightpath orientation interpolation |
|
Future Enhancement |
| Flighpath design as if in an airplane cockpit |
|
Future Enhancement |
| Postscript output of meshes for publication quality images |
See how Heckbert and Garland do it in scape. |
Future Enhancement |
| Turn on and off the flightpath in Look Mode. |
|
Future Enhancement |
| Sample program to show differences in the triangulation methods |
|
Future Enhancement |
| Distributed/Parallel ideas |
- Spread out the refinement/decimation calcuations across processors.
- Flyby server for distribution of data.
- Distributed rendering
|
Future Enhancement |
| Texture Roaming |
To save on memory have the textures only load
into memory on demand. Similar to clipfly demo
on Onyx2. This option may only be usable
on InfiniteReality machines.
|
Future Enhancement |
| Triangle Strip Generation |
Calculate Strips in a couple of different methods (Taubing, STRIPS, etc)
and compare their rendering performance. Possibly add
strip information to progressive mesh for efficient rendering??
|
Future Enhancement |
| Wireframe display |
Allow the user to specify color and density of the
wireframe overlay when doing wireframe on surface rendering
|
Future Enhancement |
| Change 2D triangles in flightpath mode to 3D cones |
|
Future Enhancement |
| Sphere Rendering |
Add an earthtile like module. It can use the topography.jpg
files as bumpmaps on a sphere.
- If only a subset of topo data should the rest of the
sphere be gray or transparent, or should it even exist??
- Sphere with image only
- Sphere with image and bump-map
- Add the appropriate tokens
- Add interface to New Header dialog
|
Future Enhancement |
| Add Flyby and Flightpath modes for solid meshes |
|
Future Enhancement |
| Textures and genus2 meshes |
Add the ability for the solid meshes loaded to
have textures on them |
Future Enhancement |
| Implement Progressive Meshes |
Use Hoppe's progressive mesh concept to
create continual level of detail simplified meshes.
Possibly do a highlevel TIN and then run the
progressive mesh imlementation on it.
|
Future Enhancment |
| Speed up TIN calculation |
Using a new data structure and ideas from Heckbert and
Garland's scape application, speed up the current
calculation of TINS by possibly up to 50 times. |
In Progress |
| Rework Users Guide, and Webpages for Flyby |
- Create a consitent look and feel across the pages.
- Separate Users Manual into sections instead of one big page.
- Add pages dealing with bugs, stereo, enhancements etc.
|
Completed: 24 May 1999 |
| MASSIVE rework of I/O |
Goal -- create a new sublayer for all the data to pass through
so the flyby application itself doesn't have to think about
where the file is located.
- Use URL's in tokens to access files (http://.... etc)
- incorporate compression (zlib)
- Extend file formats, PNM, etc, use ImageVision??
Currently the library providing the sublayer is complete.
Compresssion has not yet been added but that shouldn't take
too much work. The library has yet to be integrated into
flyby. In other words, the library is not being used at all.
|
In Progress (and on hold) |
| Output video modes when changing to/from stereo mode. |
added a few printf's in the stereEnable and stereoDisable functions
in sgi_windowStereo.c |
Completed: 30 Jan 1999 |
| Generate separat TIN's for each surface in multi-surfac
data |
In order to implement this feature View Dependant Culling
had to be completely broken. But, it this feature works
great. And when viewing the TIN's the multi-suface
keyboard controls work. Also added with this was to
make sure that the multiple textures used with multisurface
data were also used.
|
Completed: 30 Jan 1999 |
| Modify orthographic viewing window in flighpath mode |
- Add zooming to each ortho window.
Increase efficiency of rendering by only upating
the display when editing the flightpath points
or translating/zooming in the viewport. CANCELLED.
increase in mouse location calculations and viewpoint
determination was not worth the effort and didn't increase
the drawing efficiency.
|
Completed: 26 Jan 1999 |
| Add display of frame rate to all modes in flyby |
Using the = key toggles the display of the framerate
in the upper left hand corner of display |
Completed: 26 Jan 1999 |
| Add Delauny Triangulation Method to TIN Creation |
John sent us the code, added it, recompiled works fine |
Completed: 14 Jan 1999 |
| Remote File Access |
Rework of John's code to make remote file acces
no different from local file access. Include
directory/file browsing. Protocols included
so far are HTTP, FTP. Inclusino of other protocols
should be easy to do. |
Completed: 13 Jan 1999 |