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["Sara K. Nasr" <sara.k.nasr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

 

                I faced some problems with making the 3D text clickable in
OpenGL. Basically, the problem is because of the fact that texts have to be
constructed using 3D volumes in OpenGL. In fact, all letters of a simple
text has to be divided to several 3D volumes. This makes it very hard to
later make such a 3D meshed texts clickable. I tried several techniques but
even when the technique works, it takes so long that the animation becomes
fragmented. As a result of this, I tried the other animation technique in
Android which relies on extending the andoird.view class. The result was
much better than I expected and I was able to create a working 3D tag cloud.
It has several bugs that I need to fix but it is working. I have
restructured the TagCloud branch on Launchpad to include both implementation
1 (using OpenGL ES) and implementation 2 (using Android.View class). Recent
version for both implementations have already been uploaded to Launchpad. 

 

                Finally, since I am still not able to write to SCYP wiki, I
updated the design/progress reports and moved them to Google sites at
https://sites.google.com/site/tagindemo/TagCloud The link contains all my
previous design in addition to recent changes/updates and details of
problems faced in both implementations. 

 

Thanks,

Sara