Attendees

TomF, TomG, Greg, Elaine, Conrad, Eric

Agenda

• Updates on March 2 goals
• Blob interface discussion
  • Do we keep using blobs for Adco?
  • What is the long-term solution?

March 2 goals

• Full atomspecs [Conrad]
  • Need to add blob masking, intersection and union [Eric]
  • Extended cli API to accommodate better error reporting by atomspec parser. [Greg]
• Colors in cli [Greg]
  • Use CSS4 color names.
  • Use 'grako' (same as atomspec) for parsing ColorArg.
• Volume series tool. HTML vs wx GUI? [TomG]
  • 'vseries' command is implemented and can open and display map series. GUI on the way.
• Performance with large molecule (opening, rotating).
  • Memory footprint [Eric]
    • Save space by using different C++ data types
    • Converting 'std::string' members to custom class with fixed length array - expect 5-10% savings
    • Converting 'std::unordered_map' to plain 'std::map' - 10% savings.
  • Graphics performance [TomG]
    • No longer display bonds in sphere mode. Saves both space and time.
    • Faster computation for center of rotation and bounding box.
    • Will investigate why radii blob is so slow. Possibly switch to element-based radii for now. [Eric]
  • Level of detail [TomG]
    • Fewer triangles for spheres for large structures.
  • Reading mmcif file [postpone assignment until analysis of the other performance issues]
• Web services. [Conrad]
  • Threaded task manager implemented. nogui is now threaded.
  • BLAST PDB
• 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]​HTML in progress
  • High priority
  • Features: high performance, new lighting, new user interface, MMCIF, toolshed, new surface algorithm
• Side view. [Greg]
• Oculus Rift [TomG]
• Space Navigator, for use with Oculus. [TomG]
• Sequences in one form or another. [Eric]
• Remote databases. [Conrad]
• Command documentation. [Elaine]
• "help" command. [Greg]
  • Implemented.
• Model panel. [Eric]
• GUI for existing lighting and effects functionality. [TomG]
• Picking? What resolution? [TomG]
• Tubes [TomG]
• File history (like rapid access) [Conrad]
• Scenes and sessions. Low priority?
  • Molecular data only?
  • Maybe just implement a command history rather than a full session
• Ribbons
  • Lots of discussion needs to happen

Next Meeting

• Next meeting is on Thursday. No meeting Monday.
• Update on progress of bolded items