Role of the IAC

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Role of the IAC

• Repository for AVS5 and AVS/Express modules
• Porting of AVS5 modules to AVS/Express
• Development of new modules for AVS/Express as
  required

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Role of the IAC

• Network News newsletter
• User Group Support
• Training Materials
• User Support
• Gallery
• WWW Pages

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Funding

• AVS cut funding after Kubota dropped their
  contribution
• Only one person employed for IAC
• Role has changed

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Who?

• Paul Lever
• Helen Morphet
• Currently on maternity leave
• Will not be resuming IAC position
• Andrew Dodd
• New member of staff at MVC
• Will be helping with IAC module porting

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Network News

• Funding dropped for this activity
• Currently in negotiation with AVS
• Still popular with users
• 200 copies shipped at IEEE Viz98 conference

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User Groups

• No longer responsible for this activity on an
  international scale
• AVS has taken on this role

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Training Materials

• IAC not to directly develop any more materials
• Development continues at MVC which provides
  courses to IAC
• Intro/Advanced Module Writing course just updated
• Student Workbook now available
• Links to NCSC courses added

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User Support

• General support not provided by IAC
• Must use local AVS office
• IAC does provide support for IAC repository and
  related problems

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Gallery

• Continues to grow with submissions of MPEGs from
  users

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AVS/Express Repository

• Main role is to extend the repository
• Approximately 25 projects, comprising over 50
  macros
• Currently 15-20 projects almost ready for release

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Related Work

• MAVIS
• Work is continuing on the port to AVS/Express
• VISUAL
• Medical visualization modules being developed
  which are placed into IAC repository

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Related Work

• Project with The Met.Office
• Developing AVS/Express applications
• Visualize 2D/3D climate model datasets
• ocean/atmospheric temperature/currents
• Produce animations/videos for media
• Development of modules for IAC
• Requires further development of modules