On Mar 10, 2014, at 3:30 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Hello all, I am Gabriela Voll a junior at Hunter College in New York City, 
> that double majors in Computer Science and Studio Art. I have a very strong 
> knowledge of c++ and am learning python and java. Knowledge of advanced data 
> structures, and computer law.

Hello Gabriella!  What a fantastic combination of majors… I’m a little 
surprised you’d pick a data processing topic with that background, though — 
what drew you to that topic vs others?  Any others also of interest?

FYI, anyone who is serious about working with BRL-CAD is welcome to submit two 
proposals if there is more than one area that interests you greatly.  I wouldnt 
recommend working on a second before working on a patch, but two does help 
demonstrate the intensity of your interest and lets us evolve the project most 
mutually interesting.

> I realize that for the program we are supposed to expand on the project 
> ideas, but in this case the only way I could see expanding it would be to 
> include more formats onto of the already implemented AP203 and the suggested 
> additions AP203e2, AP214, AP242.

Not at all.  STEP import is quite complicated.  We have an importer, but only 
for some of the hundreds of possible entities one might encounter — so you 
could expand support for more entities.  Also, our support is not robust (just 
try converting some .step files) — so you could work on improving robustness, 
fixing bugs.  Also, it’s not as modular as we’d like it to be — so you could 
work on moving the code into a library and calling it more cleanly, 
restructuring and code cleanup.  Performance could be better.  We don’t import 
yet import mesh geometry.  Or some assembly/hierarchy/attribute information.  
And so much more…  pick your poison.  :)

Cheers!
Sean


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