2007 Canine Medical Acupuncture

Trainer and Simulator

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  Preliminary Test Program  
     
 

This program has been developed to illustrate the direction in which the SimPooch project is going. We plan to present this demonstration in real time during E-days.

It is a simple program with source code in a variety of languages. Upon execution, the program promts the user for a username so it can save a user's point data.

  
   
  The program then launches the 3D-Haptic testing environment. The current implementation's 3D object is a fish that came with the H3D API. It has a considerably smaller number of verticies than the Orange or Dog's Head. Thus, is much easier to develop test features on the fish rather than on the larger models.  
   
  Once the above window is closed, the program calculates all the necessary information concerning the point data that was generated by the stylus touching the fish. It finds the distance between the point that the user touched and the actual location of the X. It then saves the output to a file and launches that file for the user.  
   
  Finally, The program logs all of the output information into a mySQL database. This database is hosted on the testing machine. In the future, this database can be modified to hold more data (like multiple points, poke depth, etc). The first table is the database before the above test was executed. In the second table, the user: dogPoke has been inserted with its corresponding information.