Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoc'15

2015-03-04 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:21 PM, akash raj wrote: > I am Akash Raj. I am a Computer Science undergrad at BITS-Pilani (Hyderabad, > India).(currently in 4th year). I am interested in contributing to BRL-CAD. Hello Akash, > I am partiuclarly interested in the following two projects "Vector > D

Re: [brlcad-devel] Real-Time Ray Tracing

2015-03-04 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote: > I have been reading the 'librt' source code. Excellent! > There is some OpenCL prototype code in there for testing intersections with > ellipsoids. But this kind of architecture is not going to work performance > wise. It i

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015 Project Introduction

2015-03-04 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Welcome Benson, On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:57 PM, benson chepkwony wrote: > Hay, my name is Benson Chepkwony and I would like to take this opportunity > and to; express my interest in applying for GSoC 2015, to introduce myself to > BrlCad, and above all, I would like to join your team for GSoC Pro

Re: [brlcad-devel] Real-Time Ray Tracing

2015-03-04 Thread Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa
Hello, I have been reading the 'librt' source code. There is some OpenCL prototype code in there for testing intersections with ellipsoids. But this kind of architecture is not going to work performance wise. It is allocating buffers and sending geometry data to the device (GPU or whatever) on eve

[brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015 Project Introduction

2015-03-04 Thread benson chepkwony
Hay, my name is Benson Chepkwony and I would like to take this opportunity and to; express my interest in applying for GSoC 2015, to introduce myself to BrlCad, and above all, I would like to join your team for GSoC Project. After carefully browsing GSoC projects, I found multiple appealing proj

[brlcad-devel] GSoc'15

2015-03-04 Thread akash raj
Hi, I am Akash Raj. I am a Computer Science undergrad at BITS-Pilani (Hyderabad, India).(currently in 4th year). I am interested in contributing to BRL-CAD. I am partiuclarly interested in the following two projects "Vector Drawings from NURBS" and "Plate mode NURBS raytracing". I have alread

[brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015

2015-03-04 Thread Aman Agarwal
Hi, I am Aman Agarwal, a CS undergraduate at IIIT-Hyderabad and I'd like to contribute to BRL-CAD as a part of GSoC 2015. I was going through the list of Web Development projects and it'd be great if someone could guide me as to which project shall I start working on and what specific task can I

[brlcad-devel] GSOC2015 Online Geometry Viewer Back-end

2015-03-04 Thread Сергей Солонец
Dear Christopher Sean Morrison. I am very intrested in Online Geometry Viewer Back-end project( http://brlcad.org/wiki/Online_Geometry_Viewer_Back-end) to participate in gsoc 2015. Since it implies completion of another project, i would like to take a look on it to consider possible improvements an

Re: [brlcad-devel] [gsoc] Benchmark logs

2015-03-04 Thread Bán Viktor
Hi Sean, Sadly I don't think I can countinue that, because I'm not familiar with Python, I would have taken the PHP road if it were a new project. I'm also thinking of doing the materials database. I see that last year a MediaWiki extension was made. Could you elaborate me on why it is a MW extens