pipeline enhancements

[Seth Teller <seth@graphics.lcs.mit.edu>]

michael,

good progress on the pipeline and status page.  here
are a couple of suggested enhancements:

   1) post or mirror the log to a named link under
               http::/city.lcs.mit.edu/bmg
      (ssh in to city, cd /citypub/www/city/bmg
       let me know if you have permissions problems.)
      if you can have some mechanism where your script
      automatically generates the links and stores the
      logs persistently, the group can click through
      the list and see older logs as well for comparison.

      please send the URL for the log you showed us
      yesterday as soon as it's posted.

   2) add an ivToVRML step to the pipeline to produce 2D
      and 3D vrml files at the back end.  (on irix this program
      is in /usr/sbin which should be in your path by
      default.)  ivToVRML is flaky, so should probably be
      run only on small inputs (individual floorplans at
      most) for now.

   3) make the logged inventor and vrml success notifications
      into clickable links to the generated .iv and .wrl
      files respectively.  this will make it very easy for
      us to share our results with physical plant/facilities
      and other users of the 3D models.

      note that this will require some thought about file
      naming conventions and locations; you may still want
      to do the bulk of the work in /scratch, but have your
      script deposit the built models in some canonical
      location under http://city.lcs.mit.edu/bmg/... so that
      it can be web-served.  i'll ask adel to make /citypub
      visible from all graphics machines.

      please put these links behind an MIT certificate so
      that they will only be served to members of the MIT
      community.

   4) report file sizes for all source and generated files
      report time required for fetching or generation

comments ?

prof. t.