[brlcad-devel] BRL-CAD Benchmark Performance Database : GSoc 2014

2014-03-01 Thread Ankesh Anand
Hi, Although I gave my introduction on IRC before, but here it goes again. I am Ankesh Anand, an undergrad from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and love hacking on Python and Javascript. So the benchmark performance database seemed particularly interesting to me, moreover the BRL-CAD benc

[brlcad-devel] Possible GSoC Project

2014-03-01 Thread Tom Browder
I wonder if this might be a suitable GSoC project: + provide a simple, C++ interface to a limited set of BRL-CAD functions for ray tracing, e.g., as typically used in vulnerability analysis I know we have rt^3, but that's a giant project in itself, although I guess work on that would be more effi

[brlcad-devel] Sketches and Extrude/Revolve

2014-03-01 Thread Csaba Nagy
Hi all, It seems that the sketch support in BRL-CAD is very buggy or perhaps not fully implemented... I would like to get an informed opinion on the status quo. While wrapping the Sketch/Extrude/Revolve primitives in python-brlcad, I did some tests to understand how it works. The net result is th

Re: [brlcad-devel] Updated VM

2014-03-01 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Feb 28, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > I just deleted the two VM-associated files and have started transfer > of the updated ~1.87 Gb VM. Transfer rate at the moment is approx. 90 > kB/s with an estimated transfer time of approx. 6 hours. > > I'll put up the new README.txt after a go

[brlcad-devel] Server migration

2014-03-01 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
All, Our server is being physically migrated from a datacenter in Florida to one in Georgia later today. As such, the server will be taken offline. This obviously affects dozens of sites and many projects. The migration was originally scheduled during our GSoC application review, so it was

Re: [brlcad-devel] BSP in CSG

2014-03-01 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 1, 2014, at 7:59 AM, H.S.Rai wrote: > Following paper reported use of binary space partitioning tree (BSP) > in CSG, and claimed efficiency by use of it. > > http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jackiey/resources/CSG/CSG_report.pdf > > Can it be of any benefit to BRL-CAD? Short answer: yes,

[brlcad-devel] BSP in CSG

2014-03-01 Thread H.S.Rai
Following paper reported use of binary space partitioning tree (BSP) in CSG, and claimed efficiency by use of it. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jackiey/resources/CSG/CSG_report.pdf Can it be of any benefit to BRL-CAD? -- H.S.Rai --

Re: [brlcad-devel] Python Bindings.

2014-03-01 Thread Csaba Nagy
Hi Raj, I'm really glad you're interested ! I have one more suggestion to make quick progress: you should fork the python-brlcad project on github, and clone your own fork. That will allow you to publicly push changes right from the start, improving collaboration :-) Let me know if you do/not ha

Re: [brlcad-devel] Student bio - GSoC 2014

2014-03-01 Thread Daniel Roßberg
> >> In terms of GSoC 2014 I'd like to work on code reduction/refactoring or > >> maybe help with creating object-oriented interface for BRLCAD's core. > > How about this one: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Object-oriented_interfaces > > That's exactly what I was thinking about. But you tell me if it's > f