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2015-03-20 Thread Nihar Mehta
I have attached a first unedited version of my proposal. Please suggest whatever changes you feel I should make. Or whatever infeasible I have included? 1.Is tessellation,surface trimming and contour refinement a provision in current NURBS software? 2.I want to know whether we can use this algo fo

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSOC'15:NURBS EDITING SUPPORT

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 21, 2015, at 1:39 AM, Nihar Mehta wrote: > I have following doubts in this subproject: > 1. Do we have support for converting trimmed to untrimmed curves with > T-splines? > http://www.tsplines.com/technology/WTN.pdf We do not. That is a patented technique, so we cannot even consider

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC Proposal (X3D importer)

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 20, 2015, at 10:15 PM, Djimeli Konrad wrote: > Your response has given me some light on what path to follow. I have > been revisiting some options and I think white dune would be great for X3D > parsing. It has great support for vrml and x3d including support for nurbs. > Some

[brlcad-devel] GSOC'15:NURBS EDITING SUPPORT

2015-03-20 Thread Nihar Mehta
I have following doubts in this subproject: 1. Do we have support for converting trimmed to untrimmed curves with T-splines? http://www.tsplines.com/technology/WTN.pdf 2. Can we use Dual loop algorithm for smoothening curves? http://www.scientific.net/AMR.97-101.2477 3. Does detaching curve mean

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

2015-03-20 Thread Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: ... > This may be a large task, possibly the bulk of your timeframe, as boolean > weaving is one of the most complex aspects in BRL-CAD. Understanding it is > almost certainly going to take you some time. However, you’ll probabl

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC Proposal (X3D importer)

2015-03-20 Thread Djimeli Konrad
Hello Sean, On 20 March 2015 at 05:02, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > Really the only valid reason for implementing a library that is already > readily available would be because they are license incompatible or yours > will be substantially and non-subjectively better in some way. That >

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

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 20, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote: > I came up with this tentative work plan for improving the OpenCL (CL) RT code > on BRL-CAD: Excellent! > - Hook into shot and db load routines (hooks disabled by default) in order to > capture ellipsoid primitives and shot

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

2015-03-20 Thread Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa
Hello, I came up with this tentative work plan for improving the OpenCL (CL) RT code on BRL-CAD: - Hook into shot and db load routines (hooks disabled by default) in order to capture ellipsoid primitives and shots into the CL side. Get familiar with these top level interfaces of the code. (2 week

Re: [brlcad-devel] Combination in LIBRT

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 20, 2015, at 5:35 PM, Kalpit Thakkar wrote: > I'm sorry I'm rushing this too much. I am trying to develop my proposal for > the Object-Oriented C++ Geometry API project and I want to include adding > features like Centroid, Volume and Surface Area of the primitive in the > interface. I

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015 Introduction

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 19, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Ilinca Andrei wrote: > Kintel advised me to aim towards creating a common parser for both openscad > and brl-cad and relicense that as LGPL or BSD/MIT. He said we could either > refactor existing openscad code into a clean component, or rewrite the parser > and re

Re: [brlcad-devel] Combination in LIBRT

2015-03-20 Thread Kalpit Thakkar
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Kalpit Thakkar wrote: > > Now, if I import some model into MGED, which is an external model, will it > also be broken down into a hierarchy by MGED, such that leaf nodes consist > of basic primitiv

Re: [brlcad-devel] Combination in LIBRT

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 20, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Kalpit Thakkar wrote: > Now, if I import some model into MGED, which is an external model, will it > also be broken down into a hierarchy by MGED, such that leaf nodes consist of > basic primitives and the parent nodes are obtained by applying union, > intersectio

Re: [brlcad-devel] Combination in LIBRT

2015-03-20 Thread Kalpit Thakkar
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Kalpit Thakkar wrote: > > > Hello! > > I have been trying to figure out for sometime now, what exactly is a > combination in LIBRT. > > A combination is a collection of objects. Semantic meaning

Re: [brlcad-devel] Interest in GSoC 2015

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 20, 2015, at 8:19 AM, leger foposse wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am Leger Foposse, a Computer Science postgraduate major from the University > of Yaounde, Cameroon. I am interested in the STEP AP242 project and would > like to know the specific features which pertain to AP242 that need

Re: [brlcad-devel] Combination in LIBRT

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 20, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Kalpit Thakkar wrote: > Hello! > I have been trying to figure out for sometime now, what exactly is a > combination in LIBRT. A combination is a collection of objects. Semantic meaning is given to a combination based on where it exists hierarchically and what it

[brlcad-devel] Combination in LIBRT

2015-03-20 Thread Kalpit Thakkar
Hello! I have been trying to figure out for sometime now, what exactly is a combination in LIBRT. Is it a non-leaf node in the tree made out of the different primitives in the scene (I guess this tree would then be used for raytracing?) OR Is it a combination of different primitives explicitly asse

Re: [brlcad-devel] [GOSC 2015 Introduction][Mesh Library Clean up][STEP Viewer Program]

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
n Mar 20, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Milinda Fernando wrote: > I am Milinda and I am a final year undergraduate student from Department of > Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. Welcome Milinda! > I am specifically interested in the projects “Mesh library Cleanup” and “S

Re: [brlcad-devel] [GOSC 2015 Introduction][Mesh Library Clean up][STEP Viewer Program]

2015-03-20 Thread Milinda Fernando
Hello, If you have trouble finding the attached document here is the online link to view them. Internship Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0lbgk9iEcLqalJwVlRkZVZlc0hlQW4tcS12TGJyc2JNNkJJ/view?usp=sharing Mesh optimization module code documentation (GSOC 2014): https://drive.google.com/f

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015 participation

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 20, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Vicky wrote: > Hi all! > > I joined to this mailing list because I am a CAD user and I like FOSS, I > would > like to contribute to BRL-CAD by participating to GSoC 2015. Welcome Vicky! >> From the ideas list I liked more Benchmark Performance Database and Mater

[brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015 participation

2015-03-20 Thread Vicky
Hi all! I joined to this mailing list because I am a CAD user and I like FOSS, I would like to contribute to BRL-CAD by participating to GSoC 2015. >From the ideas list I liked more Benchmark Performance Database and Material Database, I like web development but I usually don't have much time t

Re: [brlcad-devel] Object-oriented C++ Geometry API : Project for GSoC '15

2015-03-20 Thread Kalpit Thakkar
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Andrei - Constantin Popescu < popescu.andrei1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-03-16 9:07 GMT+02:00 Kalpit Thakkar : > > Kalpit, > > First of all, what I'm telling you is much more informal and probably a > lot less accurate than what Daniel can, so it's best to stic

Re: [brlcad-devel] Object-oriented C++ Geometry API : Project for GSoC '15

2015-03-20 Thread Kalpit Thakkar
> 2015-03-16 6:16 GMT+01:00 Kalpit Thakkar : > > Hello Daniel, > > I have been looking at Andrei Popescu's patches and I tried to understand > > the class design in core interface. > > > > According to my understanding, every primitive object class has several > > constructors : for it's special ca

[brlcad-devel] Interest in GSoC 2015

2015-03-20 Thread leger foposse
Hi everyone, I am Leger Foposse, a Computer Science postgraduate major from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon. I am interested in the STEP AP242 project and would like to know the specific features which pertain to AP242 that need to be added to the step-g importer. Regards. Leger Foposse.

Re: [brlcad-devel] About GSOC 2015

2015-03-20 Thread Zhaotian Wang
Hi Morrison Thanks for the reply. Actually, the project ideas( Bending light and Celestial mechanics particle system) are not the only two that attract me. I think maybe I can provide some of my background and let you guys suggest a project for me? Currently I am a master candidate in China, and my