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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dear <font color=black><span style='color:black'>Squeak-dev
list members:</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am searching for someone who is qualified to be a
consultant on a 3D CAD software project that I will be developing in
collaboration with Dr. Leif Kobbelt during a six month residency at his lab at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">RWTH Aachen University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>. (<a
href="http://www-i8.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/"
title="http://www-i8.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/">http://www-i8.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/</a>)
I need someone who is has experience in 3D graphics and programming in Croquet.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This project is my initiative, however I am not a
programmer. I am a fine artist and my residency at RWTH is being organized with
the support of the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, and Adamski Gallery for
Contemporary Art.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I feel that Croquet would be the ideal environment in which
to develop SIL. My collaborators at RWTH are unfamiliar with Croquet, or
Squeak, or Smalltalk, and so may need some help in ramping up.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Therefore we are looking for someone who would be willing to
do an introductory seminar and workshop for my team and possibly other faculty
and staff at RWTH, as well as be available for occasional consultation over the
six months of the residency. We do not have a huge budget at this stage but we
could offer accommodation and living expenses for a week plus a small
honorarium. We need someone with a background in 3D graphics and experience in
programming for Croquet. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The residency is scheduled to begin in June 2005, and the
seminar would likely be in the third week of that month (though we are
flexible).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The project will exploit the properties of subdivision
surface geometry and a variety statistical methods to recognize and segment out
human-salient and natural-language-categorizable features within a database of
geometry so that new topologies can be synthesized from their recombination. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The proposed "Semantic Interface Layer" (SIL) will
allow users to create a rough sketch or template which will serve to aggregate
the relevant features from the geometry database, from which a hybrid geometry
could be synthesized, iteratively constraining and refining their model.
Through this process users will progressively channel their decisions towards
ever more precise design goals. I suspect it may be the case that a great deal
of precision can be gained through iteration of a very simple set of
procedures, through a combo of feature splicing and conventional modeling techniques.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We will release the source code under either the Croquet
License or some other Open source compliant license. I am developing this open
source software to use it to produce artwork for public exhibition, but I hope
it will also be of practical use to the Croquet community as well as expanding
its user base and public visibility. This is also an opportunity to introduce
Croquet/Squeak in a major center for computer graphics.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I need to find someone within the next week or so that I can
name as a consultant on a grant application that I am writing. Might you know
someone whom you could recommend to me, and/or would you be able to pass along
this email to someone whom you think might be appropriate? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Matthew Sloly<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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