DCC 2010 Conference and Shape Grammar Workshop

On Sunday 11th of July I have attended a workshop dedicated to Shape Grammar Implementation: From Theory to Useable Software. This workshop was part of the DCC 2010 conference.  I was given a possibility to present our Shape Grammar Interpreter that we have been working on past few moths and finally get some feedback directly from the shape grammar community. In general our software was very well accepted and we have also raised an interest in our current line of research where we use shape grammars in generating 3D virtual worlds. We plan on contacting Scott Chase as he in undergoing similar research. Later, we have agreed with Iestyn Jowers from University of Leeds to join efforts and create a full version of the Shape Grammar Interpreter that will be able to process rectilinear shapes as well as curves. For this purpose we plan on hiring some master student that would be willing to devote himself in this project. All along, this conference was a great success and hopefully we will reach the general shape grammar interpreter soon.

Second phase of the project begins today!

Thanks to Ingo Seidel from the University of Viena we have received their solution for connection between 3D virtual worlds and AMELI server. We will study this solution and try to adapt it to our needs. We will also need to study more the current Virtual World Grammar to see how we need to modify it so the interaction routines will be generated in currently static models. Another news is that team from Valencia has decided to use our solution in their project, where Virtual Institutions are used during norm enforcement in MORPG. In such games, MORPG layer is executed in AMELI server and it's specification will be used to generate the 3D world. Also, we have decided to prepare a prototype visualization for the mWater project, which will be presented in the upcoming Industry Day in Valencia.