1. Ben Aksoy Ray Navarette Daniel Tashjian Geoffrey Wong 1

2.  Conway’s Game of Life ◦ 2D Cellular Automaton  Bring into 3D  Find a useful application http://code.google.com/p/3dgameoflife/wiki/Background 2

3.  3D Universe  Input Image  Aging  Inheritance  Customizable Rules 3

4.  Community: 4 members  Model: Utility-Oriented, Small group of developers  Face-to-face meetings  E-mail 4

5.  VTK  Visual Studio  Google Code  Subversion  7-Zip  Mailing List http://code.google.com/p/3dgameoflife/wiki/Tools 5

6.  Mailing list  Read the Wiki  Learn VTK  Talk to the contributors http://code.google.com/p/3dgameoflife/wiki/HowToGetInvolved 6

7.  Simple Console Application ◦ Printed number of living cells  Spherical Cell Representation ◦ ~ 1 frame / 20 seconds 7

8.  Small cells  Fast  Colorful  Limited Depth Perception 8

9.  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 9

10.  Cellular Automata Applications ◦ Biological Simulations ◦ Cryptography ◦ Image Processing 10

11. From this noisy image…to this clean one! 11

12.  Project up and running  Achieved our main goal  Making progress on image filter  Gained great experience with VTK 12

13.  Lack of communication ◦ Roles ◦ Expectations  No governing structure ◦ Leadership ◦ Submission guidelines ◦ Quality assurance 13