Ben AksoyRay Navarette

Daniel TashjianGeoffrey Wong

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Conway’s Game of Life◦ 2D Cellular Automaton

Bring into 3D Find a useful application

http://code.google.com/p/3dgameoflife/wiki/Background

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3D Universe Input Image Aging Inheritance Customizable Rules

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Community: 4 members Model: Utility-Oriented, Small group of

developers Face-to-face meetings E-mail

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VTK Visual Studio Google Code Subversion 7-Zip Mailing List

http://code.google.com/p/3dgameoflife/wiki/Tools

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Mailing list Read the Wiki Learn VTK Talk to the contributors

http://code.google.com/p/3dgameoflife/wiki/HowToGetInvolved

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Simple Console Application◦ Printed number of living cells

Spherical Cell Representation◦ ~ 1 frame / 20 seconds

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Small cells Fast Colorful Limited Depth Perception

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Random Initial Grid or Import an Image File Grid Takes Dimensions of Image RGB -> HSV HSV Used to Map Image to Grid Inheritance Mode: Colors Are Passed Down

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Cellular Automata Applications◦ Biological Simulations◦ Cryptography◦ Image Processing

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From this noisy image… to this clean one!

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Project up and running Achieved our main goal Making progress on image filter Gained great experience with VTK

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Lack of communication◦ Roles◦ Expectations

No governing structure◦ Leadership◦ Submission guidelines◦ Quality assurance

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