This past week I spent some time over with the folks in the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames Research Center. One of their projects is called Viz, a project that "provides scientists, rover operators, and mission planners with an integrated 3-D display for planetary exploration." Viz's last incarnation was written in jME 1.0 (with several tweaks to get it working well in multi-canvas RCP.) This time it is being done in Ardor3D.It was a productive week I think, starting with a day where I spoke on the architecture of Ardor3D for almost five hours - and subsequently developed laryngitis. The rest of my stay was quieter, going over areas of the architecture specific to the project and even getting some bug fixes and coding done. I left there with a lot of respect for the team, a feeling of accomplishment for our API and some great plans for future development work on Ardor3D.
Oh yeah, and at the end of my visit I got to take a trip out to the Marscape and take a peek at some of the experimental rovers. :) Very cool.
1 comments:
This is all very interesting. What a great added bonus to be able to see the rovers and the Mars lay out!
You have a very impressive company, Josh. Keep up the grest work!
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