[brlcad-devel] Bug Tracker and Research

2015-03-05 Thread Tawhid Hannan
Hi, I did the one thing I for some reason hadn't done up to this point. I googled BRL-CAD bug tracker. D'oh. I guess in terms of coding experience, it's very much been quite practical stuff for me up to now; take a system of molecules, abstract their properties as matrixes and simulate some condi

Re: [brlcad-devel] Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

2015-03-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 5, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Jacob Burroughs wrote: > The way I see it, editing in Mediawiki syntax will necessarily result in the > loss of docbook semanticity. Therefore, if the goal is to preserve this > syntax, something other than simple conversion between docbook and Mediawiki > is nece

Re: [brlcad-devel] Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

2015-03-05 Thread Jacob Burroughs
The way I see it, editing in Mediawiki syntax will necessarily result in the loss of docbook semanticity. Therefore, if the goal is to preserve this syntax, something other than simple conversion between docbook and Mediawiki is necessary. However, if flattened semantics are acceptable, mediawiki

Re: [brlcad-devel] Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

2015-03-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 5, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > My two cents - visitor changes should *definitely* be moderated before > commit. Spam in the wiki is annoying - spam in the SVN history is a > non-starter. I could see it all being contained on a branch or even in a separate repo path if we d

Re: [brlcad-devel] Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

2015-03-05 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Hitesh Sofat wrote: > >> Hello Sean, >> >> I want to know about docbook project. I have checked your gsoc ideas >> page. I am interested in docbook project so according to this your >> requirement is

[brlcad-devel] Previous GSoC participants

2015-03-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Hi All, If you previously participated in GSoC with BRL-CAD and are a student interested in applying for GSoC 2015, I recommend you branch out your interests to other organizations such as one of our four associates (LibreCAD, OpenSCAD, STEPcode, and LinuxCNC) or another organization altogethe

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSOC 2015

2015-03-05 Thread ANKIT SINGH
hello sir, i also want to propose project for gsoc 2015 and i would like to work on web development i have a prior knowledge of html , css , java-script . i would like to know more about it , like what will i have to do. i want to discus the project details On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Chr

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSOC 2015

2015-03-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 5, 2015, at 3:41 PM, Shivoam Malhotra wrote: > Hello > > I want to submit a proposal for gsoc 2015 and wanted some guidance in > choosing the project idea. I am proficient in C, C++. Excellent > I have never used Tcl before. No problem. > I have used bullet physics before and am fam

Re: [brlcad-devel] Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

2015-03-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 5, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Hitesh Sofat wrote: > Hello Sean, > > I want to know about docbook project. I have checked your gsoc ideas > page. I am interested in docbook project so according to this your > requirement is, integrate the docbook docs with your > website(mediawiki). So my questio

[brlcad-devel] GSOC 2015

2015-03-05 Thread Shivoam Malhotra
Hello I want to submit a proposal for gsoc 2015 and wanted some guidance in choosing the project idea. I am proficient in C, C++. I have never used Tcl before. I have used bullet physics before and am familiar with its basic functionality. I am interested in working on physics/geometry related pro

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

2015-03-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 5, 2015, at 9:27 AM, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote: > I see. But double precision floating point math is a lot slower than single > precision on certain architectures like the lower end NVIDIA cards. e.g. the > GeForce GTX 780 Ti has 5048 SP GFLOPS but only 210 DP GFLOPS. Even o

[brlcad-devel] Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

2015-03-05 Thread Hitesh Sofat
Hello Sean, I want to know about docbook project. I have checked your gsoc ideas page. I am interested in docbook project so according to this your requirement is, integrate the docbook docs with your website(mediawiki). So my question is, currently brlcad running two websites one is on mediawiki

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015

2015-03-05 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 5, 2015, at 5:07 AM, Tawhid Hannan wrote: > I'm Tawhid, a final year Chemistry student. I've been developing little > things for about a two years now, and have a decent understanding of C++ and > Java. GSoC seems like a good opportunity to get involved with something > bigger than a l

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

2015-03-05 Thread Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 6:24 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > Astute observations. The OpenCL code was intentionally structured that > way, not at all for performance obviously, but so we could perform a 1-1 > comparison to validate that the implementation behavior was correct. Our > lib

[brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015

2015-03-05 Thread Tawhid Hannan
Hi, I'm Tawhid, a final year Chemistry student. I've been developing little things for about a two years now, and have a decent understanding of C++ and Java. GSoC seems like a good opportunity to get involved with something bigger than a little molecule simulation, and a few of the starting point