[brlcad-devel] Submitted a proposal (Vector Drawings from NURBS)

2015-03-23 Thread Tawhid Hannan
Hi, So I've just submitted a proposal, and I'm super nervous about it haha. I hate to do this, but I would really really appreciate feedback. I want to try and get this thing perfect. It's Thanks Tawhid -- Dive into the

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015 Introduction

2015-03-23 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Ilinca Andrei wrote: > Hello, > > I have been reading, documenting, doing research and speaking with OpenSCAD > mentors a lot these days and I've managed to come up with following > solutions and conclusions regarding the OpenSCAD Importer project : > > 2) OpenSCAD

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015 Introduction

2015-03-23 Thread Ilinca Andrei
Hello, I have been reading, documenting, doing research and speaking with OpenSCAD mentors a lot these days and I've managed to come up with following solutions and conclusions regarding the OpenSCAD Importer project : 1) The idea of using the FreeCAD LGPL python parser and implementing it into B

Re: [brlcad-devel] Plate Mode NURBS raytracing

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:05 PM, Kalpit Thakkar wrote: > Hello Sean! > I was thinking of proposing another project and I would like to work on this > project. I checked past 3-4 years' projects, but there hasn't been any > efforts in this direction. Indeed. It’s not a hard project, algorithmical

[brlcad-devel] Plate Mode NURBS raytracing

2015-03-23 Thread Kalpit Thakkar
Hello Sean! I was thinking of proposing another project and I would like to work on this project. I checked past 3-4 years' projects, but there hasn't been any efforts in this direction. So, according to the description there, BoT has a raytracing routine that, when finds an "in" point for a ray,

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSOC'15: NURBS Editing Support

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Nihar, this is a lot of highly involved technical questions and not really much time to get into detail. I suggest you just research as much as possible to understand approaches and make a proposal to the best of your understanding. That said, I’m not sure any of this is answerable without kn

Re: [brlcad-devel] [GSOC 2015] Participant - Materials DatabaseProject

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 23, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Chinmaya Patanaik wrote: > • User signup/login using their social media accounts(Google, Facebook, > Twitter). Use OAuth for user authentication. There are a lot of excellent > django libraries available such as django-allauth, django-social-auth etc. If t

Re: [brlcad-devel] My GSOC proposal for "Synchronize Wiki with Docbook"

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Hitesh, It’s clear that taking the initiative to get involved months ago has helped you research and understand the requirements of what you’re proposing. Well done. The overall structure is fine. As to your technical approach, I’d personally prefer to not involve MySQL at all for change man

Re: [brlcad-devel] Mediawiki 3D Geometry Extension

2015-03-23 Thread Aarti K. Dwivedi
Hi! The GSoC 2014 project was like a standalone project and I am currently working on extending VisualEditor to Wikisource. Is there any basic expectation from the extension that the community has? Cheers, Aarti ᐧ On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > Welcome Aar

[brlcad-devel] GSOC'15: NURBS Editing Support

2015-03-23 Thread Nihar Mehta
1.Can we apply the following algo for trimming surfaces? In the case of NURBS a trimming operation does not change the domain of a patch, but rather identifies a region within the domain whose evaluation is skipped, creating the associated “hole.” I will use Combined loop subdivision for Surface Re

Re: [brlcad-devel] [GSOC 2015] Participant - Materials DatabaseProject

2015-03-23 Thread Chinmaya Patanaik
Hi Sean, Currently I am setting up the project on my local system. I went through last year's proposal and I have some new ideas that I would like to mention. Some of the major features that I want to work on are listed below. 1. User signup/login using their social media accounts(Google, Face

[brlcad-devel] My GSOC proposal for "Synchronize Wiki with Docbook"

2015-03-23 Thread Hitesh Sofat
@Sean, Cliff I have written my gsoc proposal. I needed your help regarding my gsoc proposal please tell me about new update regarding my work which are not mention in proposal as well as structure of proposal. Please tell me about any other module (if any ) which I need to add in my proposal. The

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

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 21, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote: > I looked some more at the code and yeah the weave booleans step is branch > heavy and has gotos in it. So this is most likely a bad candidate for GPU > acceleration since a GPU will have like a quarter of the clockspeed and

Re: [brlcad-devel] Mediawiki 3D Geometry Extension

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Welcome Aarti! On Mar 22, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Aarti K. Dwivedi wrote: >I completed GSoC 2013 with Wikimedia and GSoC 2014 with Portland State > University. Any reason you haven’t continued to work with either/both of them? >Can someone please guide me to a page detailing the project "Me

Re: [brlcad-devel] [GSOC 2015] Participant - Materials Database Project

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:18 AM, Chinmaya Patanaik wrote: > I am a first year masters student from Prague, Czech Republic. I am > interested in contributing to 'Materials Database' project under BRL-CAD. Welcome Chinmaya! > I went through the github repository. It seems an initial version has b