Attendees

TomF, TomG, Greg, Sam, Elaine, Conrad, Scooter, Eric

Agenda

• Demo
  • Simple bugs to fix
    • Fix graphics code to respect "hidden attribute"
  • Generally, we met all of the goals outlined in FebruaryDemo
• Select next deadline and goals
  • Feature freeze: March 2

Advisory Committee Meeting ideas from last meeting

• Full atomspecs, colors in cli [Conrad]
• Picking? What resolution? [TomG]
• Volume series tool. HTML vs wx GUI? [TomG]
• Side view. [Greg]
• Performance with large molecule (opening, rotating).
  • Memory footprint [Eric]
  • Graphics performance [TomG]
  • Level of detail [TomG]
  • Reading mmcif file [postpone assignment until analysis of the other performance issues]
• Sequences in one form or another. [Eric]
• Web services. [Conrad]
• Remote databases. [Conrad]
• Command documentation.
• "help" command.
• Model panel. [Eric]
• GUI for existing lighting and effects functionality. [TomG]
• Better logging. Reply log and status line. [Eric]
  • Nice feature would be to show an embedded thumbnail of your current scene
• Feature advertisement (present and future). [Elaine]
  • High priority
  • Features: high performance, new lighting, new user interface, MMCIF, toolshed
• Tubes [TomG]
• Scenes and sessions. Low priority?
  • Maybe just implement a command history rather than a full session
• Ribbons
  • Lots of discussion needs to happen

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