Agenda for DTS Meeting, 17 May 05
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Schedule
	Normal schedule today

Mechanics
	Keys
		Bldg?
	CS machines local password: turing (after Alan Turing)

Administrative chores
	Any Mac users?  Need to spec Mac Powerbook G4
		o Options
		o Pricing
	

NSF Computing Research Infrastructure grant
	o 3D Printer
	o Laser cutter
	o Etc.
	=> Investigate metallic Z-printer


PROJECTS


3D Printing
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	Alias Sketch -- Eric Jensen
	Design ball-and-socket universal joint
	Design fixed-angle joint, i.e., 90-deg
	... Protein backbone? [attached]

D-Forms
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	Mathematica tour, testing
	
Pop-Up Books
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	Digital photographs of models
	Cabinet in Rm. 209, key on cylindrical bboard
	1. Parallel Folds
		Simple parallel folds
		Progression from simple to more complex
		3D letters
		Parallelograms, vector addition
		Path of points in space, wrt back plane of card
	2. Pantograph connection
	3. Angle Folds -> Rotary motion
	4. Knight's visor shape 
		Compute curve in medial plane

Protein Folding
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	Locked 45-degree unit chain?
		Some basic geometry [attached]
	Seems like 90-degree unit chain cannot lock -- but why?
	Movie of flat-to-flat algorithm for 90-deg chains [attached]