By: Leon Gurin & Almog Ben Chen
Each month we will catalouge our progress on the project as a journal.
This was the first month of the project in which we needed to find our footing and think what our project wanted to be.
We knew we needed to approach an instructor to create a unique project and so we starting our journey seeking different mentors, some did not do mentoring jobs, some ignored us and a few had topics we were not equipped to work on.
After rigorous searching we approached Dr. Roi Poranne and he shared with us his different project ideas.
Although pretty much every project was interesting we had to pick only one to dedicate ourselves to and so we made decition table:
| Charactaristics | % | Project Zippables | Architectural room identification | Text to building | VR - Architecture modeling | VR - Controlling robots | Redirected walking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Cool final product | 15% | 90➡13.5 | 80➡12 | 90➡13.5 | 75➡11.25 | 65➡9.75 | 50➡7.5 |
| 2. Practical knowledge | 25% | 65➡16.25 | 85➡21.25 | 95➡24 | 70➡22.5 | 70➡17.5 | 70➡17.5 |
| 3. Project complexity | 20% | 85➡17 | 70➡14 | 70➡14 | 75➡15 | 80➡16 | 75➡15 |
| 4. Personal interest | 40% | 90➡36 | 85➡34 | 85➡34 | 75➡30 | 80➡32 | 70➡28 |
| Final Score | 100% | 82.75 |
81.25 | 85.5 |
78.75 | 75.25 | 68 |
After much consideration we decided against the Text to building project and we decided to pursue the Zippables project.
With our goals set we made a powerpoint, presented it and got the approval to continue.
We proceeded with our project plans and read our mentors original paper that the project is based on: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/poranner/papers/zippables/zippables.pdf
Our mentor got access to the project repository of a newly published work about singularity prescribed parametrization by Yuta Noma which was published in the newest SIGGRAPH Asia 2022.
After reading their paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UFDIff7Xa6qmWm69r03iYrnmCY7ztpdp/view?usp=sharing we spend some time compiling and running their Github project on our respective machines (although we somehow could not run the project on a laptop... still remains to be solved).
We started playing around and attempting to apply spiral parametrization algorithm as shown in paper, partially succeeding in setting vector field constraints, however we were not successful in creating a spiral.
ongoing...