Events:Slicer4-Review-07-2011

What

Slicer 4 review and programming sprint

When

July 19, 10 am -21, 4pm 2011

Who

Slicer 4 core programmers

Where

Demo room, 2nd floor, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA

Why

• Identify roadmap for a Slicer 4 product release for the RSNA conference demos

Work on

Main Topics

• Critical Features
• Bug fixes
• Download setup and integration with the existing Slicer website

Priority TBD

UI

• Reformat capabilities: We need a widget and possibly a slider based interface.
• Main GUI
  • face lift for the Slice viewers: reduce permanent non-image components. Reduce the number and depth of submenus.
  • 3D viewer should have similar appearance to slice viewers
• Update tutorials
  • After main gui
  • Using GUI Testing
• Volume rendering transfer function
  • Jittery, and banding
  • Threshold
  • Better appearance of the elements of the transfer function. They look ugly and are not antialiased. Check the graph in Ohloh and mouse over it. Looks much nicer!
  • Group selection and shifting

Under the hood

• GPU Volume Rendering
  • Support for ATI and MAC
  • How many GPU render engines to support/provide?
    • Ron says: I just need a single one that works for flythroughs and can handle the combination of volume rendering, cross-sections, surface models, annotations
• hierarchies
  • display: the current display is confusing.
  • drag and drop capability
• Annotations
  • vtkWidgets
  • GUI layout
  • compositing with volume rendering does not work properly
  • Working group (?)

Infrastructure

• Move to git/gerrit
• GUI Testing
  • Instrumenting CTK widgets
  • Conversion of tutorials to tests
• Tk/Tcl
  • Removing the last dependencies
• Performance optimization
  • Module for profiling events
• Extensions
  • Support for superbuild
  • Requirements for testing, documentation, tutorials, and continued support from developers
    • How to name different levels of compliance
• Downloads
  • Statistics on packages and on individual extensions
  • Web pages
  • Technologies
• Charts
  • Reference Implementation (Marcus)
• MIDAS
  • sceneviews support
• Interactive CLI modules

Attending

1. Ron Kikinis
2. Steve Pieper
3. Nicole Aucoin
4. Julien Finet
5. Daniel Haehn (only 07/19)
6. Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
7. Stephen Aylward
8. Will Schroeder