• Combine DensitySplatter^? and OctreeSplatter^?. The only reason they're separate is that the DensitySplatter^? has to have a level at which to splat.
• An image browser that lets you see the images that have been rendered and arrange them to create a movie. Areas can be highlighted or cut out and then rendered to a movie. This would supercede the current moviemaker software.
• An object pool of nodes for the octree classes to save on garbage collection and instantiation. This was attempted, to no success, using http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/pool/.
• GLContexts could be shared between multiple instances of JoglCameras^?. This might reduce the memory footprint on the GPU.
• Jogl needs a way to do stereo. It's available in the library, but the JoglCameraWindow^? doesn't currently take advantage of this.
• Store some metadata in the images and movies that are generated. QuickTime^? provides a very featureful metadata system and PNG has some functionality for it also. Classes in the javax.imageio.metadata package would probably be helpful for this.
• When a JoglCamera^? is deleted, Spiegel still attempts to update it on the next update, causing a benign NullPointerException^?.
• It might be useful to create a window that mimicks the console so the application could be run without access to the console while still seeing the debug and error messages. This might just be a stopgap solution until exceptions are handled better and don't crash the system as easily.
• The OctreeExtractor^? needs a way to read from the network. This might tie in with the filesystem stuff currently being worked on.
• It'd be nice to have a color chooser to choose colors for java.awt.Color inputs.
• A box that reads arguments from the command-line and turns them into outputs in the system would be a useful way to bridge the gap between the two.
• Pressing cancel on the file input dialog makes the file null, which it probably shouldn't do.
• The Skeletonizer should take a level at which it should skeletonize instead of requiring an octree of a certain level be extracted.
• The ImageFileWriter^? should handle the case where the output directory doesn't exist a little better instead of throwing exceptions.
• When running java -jar spiegel.jar -h, the options should be shown and then the program halted instead of continuing to execute. This might be a problem with RitOpt.
• The save script function might want to ask before saving over existing files.
• The Skeletonizer should output both an octree with skeletal voxels and a list of points for the skeleton tree instead of having that functionality split between the Skeletonizer, the SkeletonVisualizer^?, and the SkeletonTreeVisualizer^?.

-- EdwardDale - 28 Jun 2006