April 23, 2012

Attendees: Eric, Conrad, TomG, Greg, Scooter, TomF, David, Graham

Action Items

• Greg will change lighting interface
• Eric will change lighting to one-point for publication presets
• Eric will change default silhouette width to 2
• Eric and TomG will make t-shirt image and send to Scooter

Items

1. Chimera T-shirts
   • By a 4-3 vote, the plague image is the winner
   • TomG suggested using three copies
   • Since Eric made the original image, he and TomG will collaborate on the final image
   • Scooter will set up the t-shirt order after he gets the image
2. Elaine previously suggested that we change the lighting mode for publication presets to one-light because there is better control over contrast
   • Question was raised whether two-light contrast behavior is a bug
   • Consensus is that although the current behavior of balancing intensity between key and fill light is useful, it is not what most people consider "contrast"
   • Rather than revamping the lighting modes, we will change the label for the two-light mode from "contrast" to "balance" and adopt Elaine's original suggestion to change the presets
3. Elaine's suggestion to change the default silhouette width from 1 to 2 passed with no dissenting opinion
4. Elaine's observation that "scene session bloat" makes scenes less attractive drew agreement from several people.
   • David will move scene session size analysis up in priority for release 1.7
5. TomG proposed that we split _chimera into _chimera and _molecule
   • TomG has completed preliminary work for both Mac and Linux
   • The benefits of the split are
     • removal of genlib dependency
     • migration of otf libraries into _chimera and _molecule
     • better modularity
     • faster compilation times
   • Consensus is to adopt these changes
   • TomG will send mail when he is ready to make massive commit
     • daily builds may fail for a few days due to sheer number of files that need to be changed
6. Meeting adjourned