Ben Aksoy Ray Navarette Daniel Tashjian Geoffrey Wong 1

 Conway’s Game of Life ◦ 2D Cellular Automaton  Bring into 3D  Find a useful application 2

 3D Universe  Aging  Customizable Rules 3

 Community: 4 members  Model: Utility-Oriented, Small group of developers  Face-to-face meetings  4

 VTK  Visual Studio  Google Code  Subversion  7-Zip  Mailing List 5

 Mailing list  Read the Wiki  Learn VTK  Talk to the contributors 6

 Simple Console Application ◦ Printed number of living cells  Spherical Cell Representation ◦ ~ 1 frame / 20 seconds 7

 Small cells  Fast  Colorful  Limited Depth Perception 8

 Cellular Automata Applications ◦ Biological Simulations ◦ Cryptography ◦ Image Processing 9

From this noisy image…to this clean one! 10

 Project up and running  Achieved our main goal  Making progress on image filter  Gained great experience with VTK 11

 Lack of communication ◦ Roles ◦ Expectations  No governing structure ◦ Leadership ◦ Submission guidelines ◦ Quality assurance 12