Monday meeting with Luke

Todays meeting was mainly about where we are at and what we have done or looked at in the past week.

We informed Luke that as a group Phil had shown us the Beepo physics library and some examples with it. This is a possible solution we can use to monitor the collisions when a know it formed. Discussion then began about possible ways to use this within our program. If this is possible it can make some of the program slighlty easier to do. Phil said he will look further into it and let the group know about his findings for the next meeting.

From here Jun informed Luke on a possible algorithm he had thought of to make several lines in our program behave more like string. This algorithm involves give parts of the string different weights so when a joining part is moved the movement of that part is affect by its weight. This will then give the illusion that the lines or more like one piece of string.

Allen put forward the idea of having the program run as client server. Allowing users to login and then upload knots they have created and the possibility of comparing knots they have created with other users. Question were raised as to where the computation of the comparing of knots would take places, client or server side. This is something we will look at in more detail latter if there is time. For now we will aim at having knots stored on the clients computer and computer the knots locally.

Tim was more focussed on the user manual as its the firs thing due for the project. He had been looking at possible templates and appropriate headings to have things under. Luke also showed him some previous user manuals from past projects which he has borrowed and will look at in more detail.