Meeting, Eval proposal, ACCS

Great meeting with Hilmi and Moorthy yesterday; will place my notes below.

NSF has asked us to send in a supplemental eval proposal--problem is RPI wanted us to classify teachers as consultants, which would greatly increase overhead costs. Finally got them to agree using following from NSF:

Chapter II – Section C.2.g(v), Participant Support Costs, has been revised to show that for some educational projects conducted at local school districts, the participants are being trained as employees. If that is the case, the costs should be classified as participant support if a stipend or training allowance method is used.

Got some great dances from Linda's students, posted Melissa's rhythm wheels materials in the websites at http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/latino/rhythm/classroom/megna/overview.html
Jay is setting up a media wiki to allow students to upload their own dances, bead work etc. Trevor Gray is working on a php system for that as well. Will be working with undergrad Christina Weigers on merging design tools with the 3D printer (but will need to figure out access to sol files). Also looking at simulations for hexastrip baskets with a student. And here are the meeting notes:

Meeting with Moorthy and Hilmi 1/18/2008

A. Completion of breakdancer:
1. Description of current state is at http://bpc-rpi.blogspot.com/2007/11/state-of-pcsdt.html
2. Deadline we have set ourselves for completion is April 15 (after that will be time for documentation, revisions, training next programmer, etc.)
3. Can create new methods by saving a move with the old dancer.
4. Right now only one class: humanoid. Eventually we hope to have several body shapes to choose from. Other “modes” would also have multiple classes. For example the bead loom: might want to import some other shape rather than beads. One issue is determining the “anchor” for the new shape (eg when you apply a rotation it would rotate around the anchor). Perhaps the anchor location can be given in Cartesian coordinates as a parameter of the class.
5. “Setrighthip” method example: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg-X9_q-x7f-WEw1vnLHbCyS7ITJNe1dsmxZ6arfawkFiqFf80wtWrFd4F4LM6OCY0GgpA62JXHQkxjrjbbe1l05ZpOh8lv-bVxPS9vb0gQTPK5OnCNlFB6ZfX01HgwiOy8hp7Uercqs4k/s1600-h/snapshot3.png So here one of the parameters would be the frame number. This will solve the problem of distinguishing sequential from parallel moves.

B. Improvements to old (non-programmable) BD:
1. Load music files from desktop
2. Increase size of applet
3. Remove .ani option from save dance

C. Future meetings
1. meet every two weeks (thurs 2pm)
2. Blog every friday
3. Hilmi will come up with milestones