Week 01 [05/10 to 11/10]

Work Of The Week

This week was the Project Proposal week. Eyad and I needs to agreed on the main theme of the project, 3D Surface Data Editor, and I must propose the project to the academical part of the RGU School Of Computing.

Total worked: 4 hours.

Quick researches
In order to propose a good quality project proposal I first of all search informations on obvious problems for 3D surfaces generated by 3D scanners devices. Therefore I found some interesting publications, and use one of them to create the document.	Time worked: 2 h
Writing the Project Proposal Document
This was the work of organising the few information and present them in order to be represents the project goals. It also includes the setting up of the project, as creating a basic Gantt diagram and few other small works (creating this blog for example).	Time worked: 2 h

Gantt State

The Gantt isn't complete at all, therefore I will just show here the milestones I created.

• [ML] Submit Initial Project Proposal 09/10/09
• [ML] Submit Detailed Project Specifications 30/10/09
• [ML] Projects Presentation's week 26/04/10
• [ML] Submit Report 30/04/10
• [ML] Demonstration 07/05/10

Information And References

The researches were focussed on 3D surfaces and how to correct defaults, especially noise problems. I also contact one of my French teacher, Thibaut MARZAIS, that publish a thesis on Surface Fitting as his PhD work. I would like to thanks him for the advices and researches advices he gave me, and especially the CGAL library recommendation.

• CGAL library (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library) is an Open Source tool that provides algorithms for plane and space geometry problems.
• Thibaut MARZAIS home page (in english, but the thesis is in French).
• The next links are raw researches on file format for 3D meshes, that I will certainly need to handle in my project:
  
  
  • Tutorial on loading 3DS Max files in OpenGl
  • Tutorial on loading Obj Files in OpenGl
  • Tutorial on loading Ase Files in OpenGl
  • Collada format (COLLAborative Design Activity) is a project for the creation of a standard in 3D image storage.

Next Week prevision

After publishing the project proposal document the researches can begins. First of all documentation about 3D scanners will be required to have an overview of such devices. Then listing some typical problems and existing solutions to solve them will be on focus.