Agenda for DTS Meeting, 31 May 05
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Schedule
	Leave today ~4:30PM.
	Otherwise normal week.
		
Admin
	McC 209: Judy's grad student
	Cabinet arrived
	Table out of stock -- will have to find another
	New admin-for-the-week:  Samri

Web pages
	Falling behind a bit ... ?

PROJECTS

3D Printing & Geometric Models
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	Sifter?  [Diana -- I'll give you $]
	Universal claw design -- progressing
	Borromean rings: Extrusion sweep not orthogonal to curve.
	Gillian exploring http://www.georghart.com 
	DaVinci-like wireframe Platonic solids [attached]
	Need to find out how much powder we have in stock at Z-corp...
	Inventory of models for next print?

D-Forms
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	Tennis-ball curve
		Defined directly
		From curvature and torsion [attached]
	Make 3D shape by "ruling" surface with segments connecting hull points
	Next: slightly asymmetric tennis-ball curve; 
		avoid curved-curved gluing.

Knight's Visor
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	Image of Knight's Visor
	
Pop-Up Books
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        http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/DTS/Sum05/PopUpDraft.html for latest 
	One figure needs correction (cut through back side)
	Next: Rotation
		Stills in Mma
		POV-ray?
		
Protein Folding
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	Give up on stick model -- probably would be fragile anyway
	Substitute:
		Sphere model of some protein for which we also have the
		stick model, so that we can make 2D pictures
	Thinking again about locked 45-deg chain... [attached]