Category: Technical

GCF 1.0.573 released.

I just uploaded GCF 1.0.573, here is the link: http://vcreatelogic.com/oss/gcf/index.html. The uploaded GCF is updated from the version I had sent for the contest. I have also updated the documentation a bit. I hope the new documentation makes better sense…

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GCF won the 3rd Place in QtCentre Contest

“Generic Component Framework” the foundation on which VTK Designer 2 sits, won the 3rd place in the QtCentre Contest. When the finalists were put up I practically gave up because the other entries were mature projects while GCF had about…

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Haptic Transformations in VTK Designer

Enabling haptic transformations is so simple in VTK Designer now. All you have to do is to set some properties for haptic actors in your scene; and you are ready to go !. See how it works in this video….

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PHANToM Omni Haptic Device with VTK Designer

We have managed to get the PHANToM Omni working with VTK Designer (and VTK ofcourse) using SensAble Technology’s Open Haptics toolkit. They have some some pretty amazing work. Making VTK work with the haptic device was not all that complicated….

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Back to Windows XP Professional

Unfortunately the vendor of the hardware device I bought last week does not support Windows Vista. So I had to switch back to Windows XP Professional. It sucks, but then I really did not want to blow away all the…

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Menu Strip in VTK Designer

Highly inspired by Microsoft Office, I created a very simple menu widget for VTK Designer and called it “Menu Strip”. No, it is not similar to ribbon, although it is inspired by it. I am getting mixed feedback from friends,…

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Hardware Arrives !

Twenty three days and a couple of thousand dollars later, the hardware device arrives :). Anyways, I have to clear some more hurdles before which I can actually begin to use it. a) I need a 15A switch and not…

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Best penalty kick ever! :D

“Best penalty kick ever! 😀” on Google Video It’s funniest penalty kick i’ve ever seen!

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Marble in VTK Designer 2

Well, I have gotten a little somewhere with Marble 🙂 I must say Marble is written exceptionally well. Khudos to the guys that wrote it. Before I go further, here is a screenshot of Marble widget and navigator in VTK…

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KDE4: Marble.. wow.. Marble.. wow

I read about KDE 4 Beta 1 release yesterday and noticed the enticing Marble. A Google SOC project which I am sure will have a huge adoption in the open source world. I encourage you to download and use Marble,…

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Getting ready to import some hardware

We guys at our company decided to import a piece of hardware to understand, learn and generally play around with. The decision to import was made when all vendors in India told us that they dont have it with them….

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VTK Designer 2: Evaluating a Center Line in a Tunnel

I was reading a bunch of materials on center line algorithms. These algorithms essentially evaluate a line that passes through the center of a tunnel. Most of the algorithms that I was reading works on 3D Image data sets, I…

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Object and Signal/Slot Explorer for Qt

I was searching on the net for a Qt Object Explorer that would help me to understand large software and that would help others to understand software that I write. But I could not find one, also it turns out…

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Total Immersions Augmented Reality Demo

“Total Immersions Augmented Reality Demo” on Google Video A demostration of Augmented Reality…the seamless mixing of the real and the virtual. Quite simply, this is the future. AR has unlimited potential, the potential to give us virtualy anything anywhere.

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