[SnapPea-planning] priorities

[Nathaniel Thurston]

Dear All,

I've been in contact with Michael Douglas at the Simons Institute (is
that the right name?), and he's suggested that the institute would
have funding for at least a month's work and asked me to determine the
relative priority of the work to be done.  I examined the mailing list
history, and came up with the this outline:

1. finish tcl port (cross-platform graphics; test for mac osx & linux
compatibility)
2. sage interface
3. more robust Dirchlet domain algorithm
4. requests (grouped by estimated effort required, and ordered by time
of request)
	a. short-term
		identify dehn-drilling axes in viewer [Bill Thurston]
	b. medium-term
		good drillings view [Bill Thurston]
		integrated hyberbolic viewer [Bill Thurston]
		symbolic math for smith normal form [Marc Culler]
		direct computation of Chern-Simons invariant [Marc Culler]
		more robust generator of short geodesics [Dylan Thurston]
	c. long-term
		looking for supergroups of finite index [Bill Thurston]
		detriangulate command: manifold -> link complement [Bill Thurston]
		dealing with non-hyperbolic manifolds [Dylan Thurston]
		rewrite snap in sage [Nathan Dunfield]

Would anyone like to amend this list before I send it out to the
SnapPea-summary mailing list?

Best Regards,
	Nathaniel