Learnings & Experiences

Well, I have gotten a little somewhere with Marble 🙂 I must say Marble is written exceptionally well. Khudos to the guys that wrote it. Before I go further, here is a screenshot of Marble widget and navigator in VTK Designer 2. And I want to go from here to a more fancy avatar than…

I read about KDE 4 Beta 1 release yesterday and noticed the enticing Marble. A Google SOC project which I am sure will have a huge adoption in the open source world. I encourage you to download and use Marble, It compiles with Qt 4.3, you dont necessarily have to have KDE 4 running on…

We guys at our company decided to import a piece of hardware to understand, learn and generally play around with. The decision to import was made when all vendors in India told us that they dont have it with them. Anyways, once the decision was made we were made to understand the procedure in making…

I was reading a bunch of materials on center line algorithms. These algorithms essentially evaluate a line that passes through the center of a tunnel. Most of the algorithms that I was reading works on 3D Image data sets, I was searching for something that works on a polygonal model of a 3D Tunnel. So…

I was searching on the net for a Qt Object Explorer that would help me to understand large software and that would help others to understand software that I write. But I could not find one, also it turns out that quite a few people are searching for one. A brief search in Qt’s mailing…

“Total Immersions Augmented Reality Demo” on Google Video A demostration of Augmented Reality…the seamless mixing of the real and the virtual. Quite simply, this is the future. AR has unlimited potential, the potential to give us virtualy anything anywhere.

“I am India” on Google Video Nice video 🙂 This film is a journey through emerging India,” the fastest growing free market democracy in the world”. It celebrates the relentless spirit of the people of India, who through their karma give it a place amongst the leading economic nations of the world. Conceived and produced…

I uploaded some “VTK Designer 2” videos to Google Videos today. I have aggregated them in this blog entry. I am quite happy about the way VTK Designer 2 has turned out. Hopefully the users will like it better and adopt it more when we release it in October 2007. (Fingers Crossed) [Clicking on the…

That was the month of October 2006. That was when the last major update to VTK Designer was provided to the world. Since then I received a lot of email about VTK Designer for VTK 5.x and VTK Designer for Windows. Since my company purchased a copy of Qt 4.2 for Windows, we also got…

Bought a copy of Windows Vista Business yesterday. Why Windows Vista Business? Because it costs less than Home Premium, the only other edition that comes with Aero (apart from Ultimate ofcourse). It costed something like 8000 bucks !!! but I believe its worth luxury/premium price (atleast so far I believe that 😉 ) Some of…

Starting and growing your own business is probably the best way to learn about realities and life. I have probably learned the best of the lessons in life over the last two years. Lesson #1: Most people do not have what it takes to make and keep promises. I have interacted with people that have…

About two weeks ago I met with Prabhu Ramachandran at his office in IIT Bombay. I can safely say now that I have never met a person with the right mix of technology, enthusiasm, extreme simplicity, humility and brains that he has. We spoke for a couple of hours on our passions for Open Source…

A photo of the page with an image of vtk designer on the top right corner.

After about two years of development (29th October 2004 was when the first version was released), VTK Designer has managed to get into the KDE SVN. After giving a demo of VTK Designer at FOSS.IN 2006, Aaron Seigo suggested that I try getting an SVN account and importing VTK Designer into the SVN. And I…