Clustering Reader

As part of my PhD research I needed to cluster the the shape segments according to its spherical harmonics signature. After accomplishing this step I want to easily "see" the results and create a directory tree filled according to a given partition (I compute four different ones). To that end, I developed "Clustering Reader" a simple Windows applications that reads the XML file produced by the clustrering algorithm, shows the computed partitions and distributes the corresponding segments (VRML files) by the corresponding directories.

Screenshot of Clustering Reader

QiQA idea overview

While preparing the Quick Quotation Assistant (QiQA) final report, within my collaboration on Eurotooling21 project, I redesign from scratch the diagram that represents the idea behind this tool. Below you can find the new diagram, depicting the basic principles of the quotation assistance environment.

Ammersee

In the day after the Sketch Tools for Diagramming workshop in Herrsching (Germany) and before return home, I went for a boat trip in the Ammersee lake plus a walk around the town. In the picture below you can see me in the boat deck after leaving Riederau, on the oposite side of the lake.

EditION presented in Sketch Workshop

Last Monday I presented the paper titled "EditION: A Collaborative Calligraphic Tool to Manage Virtual Environments" at the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing workshop Sketch Tools for Diagramming held on Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. An electronic version of the paper can be downloaded from the on line proceedings.

Disjoint component identification

Within my PhD work I developed a small prototype that identifies disjoint components on 3D meshes. The "Disjoint Component Detector" takes as input an OFF file and can produce three distinct outputs. It can create a VRML file with the model colorized according to the detected disjoint components. It can create a set of OFF files, containing each one of them a single component. Or it can write a text file describing the disjoint components detection results. If interested in try it, you can download the current stable version of the prototype [ZIP 143KB].

Ant model from PSB with disjoint components identified.

This simple prototype provides a straightfoward method to identify segments in some models from the PSB collection, since they are already coded with disjoint segments.

Identifying segments using disjoint components in a model from PSB.