Milestones 1997

• 2/15/97: Proposal accepted by ONR in DURIP program for mirror, display, sound
• 3/1/97: Preliminary workbench design commissioned with design company
• 7/30/97: Preliminary Workbench display hardware and mirror arrived at Caltech
• 8/1/97: First images on Caltech Workbench! Currently using small SGI (Indigo 2). Calibration process begun. Preparing for research on methods for the workbench.
• 10/1/97: Purchase of small Onyx to drive 1-screen workbench

Milestones 1998

• 1/1/98: Interactions with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Collaboration under way with Dr. Martin Lo, on problems of trajectory planning and visualization for mission design, such as the upcoming Nasa Genesis mission (launching in 2001).
• 2/28/98: Purchase of materials for 2-screen workbench
• 6/8/98: Mono drivers for dual-screen activity on Onyx
• 7/1/98: Notification of NSF Major Research Instrumentation award for more powerful Onyx for 2-screen workbench

Using the Caltech Workbench:

Interactive Pooltable Demo on the Workbench Mpeg 4MB. L1 Manifold on the Workbench Visualization being used to plan trajectories for upcoming Discovery Genesis Mission, Mpeg 2MB. Toaster Demo on the Workbench Mpeg 1MB.

Real-time Volume-rendered Mouse on the Caltech Workbench Algorithm: Ruediger Westermann, Mouse data, David Laidlaw. Mpeg 1MB. Interactive Head Demo on the Workbench Multiresolution head, Peter Schröder, Denis Zorin Mpeg 9MB. Trajectory Visualization Method