{"id":149,"date":"2001-07-01T20:37:21","date_gmt":"2001-07-01T19:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-01-09T20:38:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:38:33","slug":"my-university-group-project-summer-term-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2001\/07\/my-university-group-project-summer-term-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"My University Group Project (Summer Term 2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Andipa Art Gallery Project<\/h4>\n<p>The project aimed to enable a virtual art gallery to be built, decorated and then browsed online. We built a floorplan designer than could be used to add rooms and doors to a virtual art gallery.<\/p>\n<p><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/gProject_designer.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We build a tool for putting pictures on the gallery walls and to provide information about each picture.<\/p>\n<p><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/gProject_wallDesigner.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We built a tool to publish the gallery onto the web and provided a web interface for visiters to navigate the gallery.<\/p>\n<p><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/gProject_webGUI.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We wrote tools to visulise the gallery in 3D.<\/p>\n<p><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/gProject_3D.png?w=620&#038;ssl=1\"\/><\/p>\n<h4>What I learnt from the project<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>I was a team leader for the first time and got a lot from it. I learnt that its time-consuming to co-ordinate people to produce an organised piece of software with the work-load evenly split.\n<li>I learnt how difficult a large piece of software becomes (in terms of bug fixing and maintaince).\n<li>I learnt how hard documentation is (but how neat Javadocs are).\n<li>I learnt Java programming including 2D programming using Swing, how to save and load in Java and how to update a database in Java.\n<li>I learnt how to put Java online including Java applets and how fidley they can be with securiy issues.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Andipa Art Gallery Project The project aimed to enable a virtual art gallery to be built, decorated and then browsed online. We built a floorplan designer than could be used to add rooms and doors to a virtual art gallery. We build a tool for putting pictures on the gallery walls and to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}