This email has been written with intention to extend discussion about BRL-CAD Online Geometry Viewer (OGV) to further steps.
If we talk about present state of OGV, efforts were made to make it functional and no doubt it is working, but as pointed out in recent discussions, it lacks robust infrastructure. As mentioned by Sean at project ideas page, we have three projects under OGV: the basic infrastructure, GUI and MediaWiki geometry extension. Following is little more detail about these. The basic infrastructure includes rebuilding the whole project at current state using a framework and adding more new features. Rebuilding includes .g to .obj conversion, visualization of .obj on browser, sign-in sign-up module etc. Read more about current project at: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Online_Geometry New features primarily includes user dashboard, file management, file sharing with other users, conversion to other CAD formats etc. Read more about desired features: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Online_Geometry/TODO. These were mainly written in context with current state of OGV. Talking about the framework, adopting a single framework to eliminate the need of using different languages at server side (e.g. PHP) and client side (e.g. JavaScript), would be more favorable. Please give your comments. Another possible project is designing of user interface for OGV while keeping user experience in mind. Again, talking about current state OGV, its GUI is OK type and not so friendly to user. User interface & experience in today's web industry have major role in driving more users and probably can help to compete with other similar services. Making an influential user interface for OGV needs great deal of efforts, creativity and understanding of certain principles. Since OGV infrastructure is not yet ready, but we have certain plans and discussions are going on to finalize the goals and once finalized, I think we can run separate UI & UX project side by side with basic infrastructure development. Comments are appreciated. Third project under OGV is Mediawiki geometry extension. As I checked from old emails, it is also mentioned in Mediawiki's GSoC projects list. The major idea is same as that of OGV i.e. uploading a geometry file (e.g., .g file) like uploading a file into mediawiki, and causing our plugin to read the g file, parse the data to visualize it in embedded interface in Wikipedia. Currently I am running out of details for this project. Interested ones can add more. Please give your suggestions / comments / feedback to improve and / or fill out the gaps if any so as to make this information more useful. -- Harmanpreet Singh Blog: http://singhharman.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
