Dear Friends, You will be glad to know that the next TSM is on "Virtual Reality, OpenGL and SDL based 3D programming"
scheduled to be held on Sat, 8th September at 5pm at 5th Floor, Conf Room, CommVault. (Please see complete details below). An eminent speaker, Mr. A. P. Rajshekhar, will be delivering this interesting and informative talk. Virtual Reality is a technology which allows a user to interact in a computer simulated environment, be it real or imagined one. To realize the rich graphics environment for the user, it is necessary to have toolkits and libraries. Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia, OpenSource library written in C that creates an abstraction over various platforms' graphics, sound and input APIs, allowing a developer to write a computer game or multimedia application. Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) is a standard specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The speaker, Mr. A.P.Rajshekhar is currently a Project Engineer (Tech Lead for Web development team) with C-DAC, Hyderabad. Mr. Rajshekhar holds Bachelors Degree in Computer Science(Honors) and Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing(PGDC) from C-DAC. While pursuing Bachelors Degree, he worked as a Developer with Arushi, a NGO in Bhopal for 2 years. Here he was involved in development of PC based Synthesizer using Windows API. Presently, he is working in multi-lingual interface enabled Learning Management System based on J2EE. His other endeavors at C-DAC include low-cost SCM solution for SME and development of Quality Assurance Framework for e-learning Systems. He is a regular contributor to DevShed portals on topics ranging from Game programming to web based application development. His areas of interest are 3D programming and Virtual Reality systems. Mr. A. P. Rajshekhar will talk in detail about the following: . Virtual Reality . 3D Programming concepts . Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) . Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) . Programming Illustrations & Scenarios Date: Sat, 8th September, 2007. Time: 5pm - 7:30pm. Venue 5th Floor Conf Room, CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. Ashoka Janardhan Chambers S.P. Road, Begumpet Hyderabad 500 016. To help locate the venue, a photo of the building is available here. http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on informative session and benefit from it. This is a FREE event. You are requested to kindly reach the venue 10 min in advance to handle the security check. All the attendees are requested to kindly cooperate in this matter since the security has to handle large number of visitors. For assistance, please call the Society helpline : +91 - 98482 37656 +91 - 99492 53753 Please feel free to forward this link to your colleagues and friends. regards TSNET.
