OpenSceneGraph training in Washington DC

Event Dates: January 22, 23, 24 2008
Event Location: MicroTek Washington, DC Facility, 1101 Vermont Avenue NW (at "L" St.), Suite 300 Washington DC, USA [ Driving Directions ]

This training event is co-instructed by Bob Kuehne (Blue Newt Software) and Paul Martz (Skew Matrix Software). The training will be held in the heart of Washington DC—easy train, metro, and parking, all near the location. Two courses are available over three days.

Overview

January 22 & 23: OSG Intermediate course

We'll teach you everything you need to know to move from basic OSG usage, to pretty detailed and comprehensive library features. Here's what you'll learn:

• Memory management
• Nodes, various node types, custom nodes and NodeKits
• Traversals, NodeVisitors, Callbacks
• Data manipulation tools
• Drawables, Geometry, and state
• Using plugins
• Threads
• Viewing and camera manipulation
• Window system integration
• Optimization techniques
  

Finally, if you choose to stay for day 3, we're focusing on terrain:

January 24: Terrain Databases in OSG

This 1-day course covers creation and rendering of large terrain/urban databases in OSG. Topics covered include:

• Large data set construction, display, and optimization
• Paged data sets
• Network served data
• VirtualPlanetBuilder data generation
• Shading
• Tools & Workflow
  

Please register for one or both courses. We're looking forward to seeing you in January.