Telecon: 2025 01 14

Attending JOWOG 34 end of February at LANL *Presenting on using Ascent as a data source for machine learning
Offered Andres Sewell a summertime internship through DSTI to beef up Ascent's Devil Ray raytracer with X-Ray Image Query capabilities to be on par with VisIts

Cyrus: reworked Ascent's logging and merged in a unified logging infrastructure
Cyrus: Wrangling OASIS/Rapids office of science funding
- Office of Science has a visualization call out (labs only)
Emily: Working on controlling logging via the actions file
Nicole: Got ANARI + Ospray working with weird results
- Probably not using the proper settings
- The settings in the docs is a glimpse into the waking nightmare that is USD
- Pivoted to use Steffan Zellman's Visionaray, but hit errors
- Pivoted again to use Barney + Pynari on Lassen, but it being a PPC machine killed it -- Potentially get access to
  - Could pivot again to RZAdams
- Previous local build used Ascent's compositing, can instead use ANARI-PTC (pass through compositing) https://github.com/ingowald/ANARI-PTC

For both Ascent and VisIt implementing fancy/large resolution rendering via tiling

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