Week 7

Week 7

1/12
The tile display was down so we could not do anything until it is fixed. Kevin suggested that we do some research on the different data format supported for scientific 3D model. Found out some common data format in 3D model such as .3ds, .x , .msh and many other more. We also read up on Fluent which is a software used to create the 3D models. At the end of the day, the tile disp

2/12
The tile display was up so we did our testing without the hold detection. Found out that there was a problem with the frame rate. When we implement the hold detection the frame rate was 6-8 fps but after removing the hold detection the fps increase to 20-23fps. Kevin came and see the testing, we told him the problem and we discussed on some possible solutions and issues that lead to the frame rate problem.

3/12
We tested the tile display again using the RGB lightdraw code that Ming Hong rewrote. Ming Hong suggested that we should combine the remote calibration and receiver together so we do not need to run seperate program. I combine the 2 program codes together but it did not compile properly because of the makefile problem. Did some simple research on Keycode as we needed the keycode value to do some actions for VMD such as rotation, scaling , transform.

4/12
Went for NS medical checkup, took me the whole day so did not went to work. I will do a compilation of our testing, results and findings for the tile display project up till now on the next post.

5/12
Went back to work and hock manage to compile the combination of remote calibration and receiver. I missed out quite a bit because Kevin gave them a short lecture of presentation skills. We were told to give a presentation on the application that we have done which is Puzzle for me and hock, Pong for ryan and wilson. Continue some research on Keycode and Hock found a keycode value chart. Help Ming Hong to test VMD lightdraw with functions such as rotate,scale and transform.

Reflection :
Learned alot on the different data format of 3D model and some simple information on Fluent. I also learned about the keycode value which is a number value for the keyboard. There are different values for different OS such as Mac, Windows and Linux. I also learned how to run VMD and paraview and also some functions avaliable in the 2 3d model viewer.