Telecon: 2025 03 11 - Alpine-DAV/ascent GitHub Wiki
2025/03/11 Meeting
Updates
- Attended JOWOG 34 at the end of February at LANL
- Cyrus presented on using Ascent as a data source for machine learning
- Justin presented on how great conduit is
- Nicole fell asleep a lot
Recent Developments:
- Cyrus: Added 'reflect' capability to the transform filter
- Cyrus: Added capability to provide multiple action files to a trigger
- Cyrus: Added ascent lib version details to the info() call
- Cyrus: Added external surface filter for compute reduction
- Eric: Fixed some umpire issues with ascent_config.mk.in and dray_config.mk.in
- Nicole: Bogged down in some paper reviews
- Nicole: Added case of a structured mesh with an explicit topology to the blueprint to vtkm data adapter
- Nicole: Looking at expanding grid sampling beyond a uniform mesh
- Emily: Updated Ascent's color table input to be more user friendly
- Eric: Working on image tiling for arbitrarily large images using VTK-m's raytracer
- Looks to be currently lacking the capability to select regions of the data without moving the camera
- VTK-m will look at this. ex: adding a viewport capability or access to the projection transform or something else
Discussion
- UOregon's PSAP application was denied. Sounds like previous PSAP projects are just getting renewed.
- VTKm has a PR in for contours of lines and polygons