Vinny:
– playing with maratis
– adding lua functions is easy
– their svn contains an iOS skeleton app
– has a scene editor, live reloading of lua scripts
– took an internet break this weekend, sketched out ideas for his game (in the “finger-racer” genre)

Chris:
– packaging a Mac app (needs .dylib for OpenCV/Qt)
– Vinny wrote a blog post in the past about how to do this!
– app amplifies details at multiple levels using image pyramids (video demo)

Shauvik:
– in his 4th year of the PhD program at Georgia Tech (his website)
– working on commercializing his multiple-browser-testing tool (in the TI:GER progam)

Mark:
– (before atlhack) made a parametric model of the floor plan of a high rise tower (video of interaction)
– segmenting/fitting a (noisy) piecewise parabolic curve:

Rob + Jordan
– looking at gui stuff for vomit tennis
– goofed in actionscript
– TODO: physics shaping, adding net, adding sprites

Chris
– editing photos in Lightroom

Mark
– that heart surgery program
– cleaning up messy code, fixed a ui bug

Erik: writing a replacement for Ruby’s ipaddr library
– for ip address comparison
– stores as bigint, c library for parsing
– subnets and equality testing
– ragel

David: leap motion
– point at pixels
– crazy weekend, claremont lounge
– job hunting

Mark: clustering hand-drawn curves
– using k-means
– based on size/aspect-ratio of oriented bounding box and curvature of curve

Topics of Discussion:
– thrust/arrayfire
– cycloramic app
– as it turns out, none of us are submitting to SIGGRAPH this year

* Since Last Week

** Graham
*** Fixed some bugs in mosaicing code, found others.
*** Mark helped compile unaudicle for Mac, it basically works.
*** Also helped me find some bugs, put them in my org-mode bugtracker.
*** Vinny showed me how to use org-mode’s time tracking C-x C-c [C-i, C-o]
*** C-c C-x C-j takes you to current clocked item.

** Rob
** Jordan
*** they are entering Killscreen and ouya CREATE competition
(24 Jan deadline!)
*** settled on the platform and have a plan of attack.

** David
*** went to Israel.

** Vinny
*** changing coworking spaces from Strongbox to Atl Tech Village.

** Karthik
*** isosurface extraction, and some nonlinear least squares, in python
using marching squares (for shape deformation, for a new project).
*** found multiprocessing python, probably better than threading.

** Mark
*** worked on upper body in Tango interface.
*** found a human population map for whoblinked.org

* This Week’s Plan

** Graham
*** Try to get supercollider accepting code over OSC.

** Rob
*** get controller input working.

** Jordan
*** Install Unity and play around with it.

** David
*** working on an iphone app.

** Vinny
*** working with collections in backbone-js (client side js)

** Karthik
*** create an animated sequence from slices.

** Mark
*** model your tango database and synthesize a dance.

* This Week’s Reality

** Graham
*** got a basic OSC shell that executes a working supercollider file.
*** looking for a way to safely compile bad code. looking into try/protect

** Rob
*** has a joystick-controlled vomit guy.

** Jordan
*** made a triangle move and read about metaball – a way to fake fluids.

** Vinny
*** has listItem rendering, but no appropriate data to render.

** David
*** switch statement.

** Karthik
*** extracted slices and wants to run some tests on them for patho cases.

** Mark
*** wrote a class that impl. histograms + main loop of synth +
drank a beer + talked to Hamza about genetic memory.

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* Members Present
** Kelly
** Graham
** Jordan
** Mark
** Rob

* Since Last Meeting
** Kelly
** posted new versions of aquarium
*** www.kellygallagherprojects.com/gamedev/aquarium/cambrian/
** started new Berzerk clone (new computer)

** Graham
*** First time visiting ATL since moving to Germany.
*** Livecoding editor in the tradition of audicle
**** https://github.com/ravelite/basicEditor

** Jordan
*** Got bachelors degree in CS. Not much else.

** Rob
*** Writing design docs for VomiTennis.

** Mark
*** Showed us fivecolor, animated drawings for drawing synthesis.
*** Showed us tango authoring interface.

* Today’s plan

** Mark
*** Fix bugs in both of the things.

** Kelly
*** Reading cloud atlas on Kindle.

** Rob and Jordan
*** Setting up dev log to track issues.
*** Translate design doc into action plans, milestones.

** Graham
*** Investigate custom renderer for table in Qt.

* Stuff done

** Graham
*** Didn’t find understandable way to change interestingly indent.
**** update: it’s simple, but in a privately composed class (QTreeViewPrivate)
*** Started on connecting to sclang; starting first with named pipes
and QProcess.

** Mark
*** Fixed both bugs.
*** Started added timeline to fivecolor recorder, added lots of timelines.

** Jordan and Rob
*** registered killpack.biz
*** made a git account on assembla.
*** put the explosion.gif on her awesome website.

** Diana
*** Took awesome nap.

Joe:
– was “hacking from home”
– added features to save your game and enter your name in roy-wip
Rob:
– got the ps controller talkin’ to processin’
– made aliases for all the buttons
Jordan:
– installed Mono then dicked around on the internet
– took two finals today: Abstract Vector Spaces, and Languages and Computation
Erik:
– reading fictional arpanet chat
Chris:
– documenting Arduino spectrogram project
– video and blog post coming soon
– experimenting with iMovie documentary template (looks like a cool interface for helping a novice user arrange their videos)
Mark:
– loading color palettes from ColourLovers into his Spotify app
– saving to AppEngine web service via JavaScript
– now just need to make the interface prettier, then it’s releasable

hiring programmers (it’s hard to gauge qualifications without meeting in person), svg (it’s great, David is using it for a map)
“how many people have never seen an iPhone?” (who knows man? somewhere between one and five billion)
“what does the ghost of a tractor look like?” (wispy tail, transparent, angular? smooth? abstract? who knows?)
dogpark finder app, instagram, zynga (“the only reason we’re talking about them is because they had lucky timing and a big exit”)
“they don’t want to advance, they want to have an aesthetic experience” (re: ultima online folks role-playing as “boring” characters)
i wanna be the guy, super meat boy, battle girl (indie games)
“mario [physics] is earth, everything else is too floaty or … whatever” (anchoring effect)

Present: Mark, Erik, David, Jordan, Rob, Vinny
Also, Karthik and Jon were at Octane talking about video game reverse engineering before Atlhack. I caught the end of their conversation.

(Thanks to Karthik for taking notes!)