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