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Title: OpenTissue - An Open Source Toolkit for Physics-Based Animation
Author(s): Erleben, KennySporring, JonDohlmann, Henrik
Review title: OpenTissue: An open source software useful for surgical simulation
Reviewer: Miguel angel Rodriguez-florido
Review:
 <b>Summary:</b>
Authors present an open source programming toolkit for physics-based simulation, collision detection, deformation, etc. First, they describe the origin of the
toolkit. Later, they comment the basic features, and finally they discuss the pros and cons of the toolkit.
                   
<b>Hypothesis:</b>
Non Applicable

<b>Evidence:</b>
Authors don\\\'t provide any \\\"speculation\\\", but they assume that the third-party dependences ensure a common framework.

<b>Open Science:</b>
This work is the result of a great workgroup (PhD and Master Thesis students, researchers, etc.), and they provide a web site for code, data, etc, and their work is a contribution to Open Science.

<b>Reproducibility:</b>
I have downloaded the code and data, but in my opinion it\\\'s difficult to compile it correctly. I have tried some demos but I got some errors like \\\"/usr/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so.6, needed by /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../libGLU.so, may conflict with libstdc++.so.5\\\". These kind of errors are the result of the strong third-party dependences. How the say in their ToDo.txt
fie: \\\"Automize cross-compilation (windows vs. linux) so compatibility can be easily tested with a minimum of human interaction\\\" is needed.
Perhaps, it would be useful a small quick-start guide in the paper (annexes or similar).

<b>Use of Open Source Software:</b>
They comment something about the utility of OpenSource for accessing to the implementations details, and their developments are done under OpenSource.

<b>Open Source Contributions:</b>
They provide all the code, but I have had some problems to compile and use it. This is due to the strongly dependence with third-parties.

<b>Code Quality:</b>
I have compiled under linux and it works. We hope to try it under windows. I haven\\\'t checked the source code style, but they say in their paper that  they have used template programming
and metaprogramming.

<b>Applicability to other problems:</b>
I think that this work is very useful in surgical simulation. Our group is working in this discipline, and thanks to the Open Source philosophy, we are installing/running/testing the toolkit to study the viability of including some of their work in our applications.

<b>Suggestions for future work:</b>
Avoid the strong third-parties dependences. However, they say in their paper that one of their aim is to complete the transition of all code into a completely generic programming
framework.

<b>Requests for additional information from authors:</b>
A quick-start guide for running demos.

<b>Additional Comments:</b>
It is a great and interesting work. Congratulations.
My rating is based on the IJ reviewer guidelines.



Date:
 06-27-2006
Rating:
 3
Expertise:
 3

Download the paper at: http://hdl.handle.net/1926/34
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