[brlcad-devel] GSoC application deadline approaching and Patches

2015-03-26 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
GSoC Applicants, As the deadline nears, I know many of you are still working furiously on your proposals or anxiously awaiting feedback. Some will get feedback, some will not — feedback at this point will have little-to-no impact on your chances of getting selected. Just make your proposal t

Re: [brlcad-devel] Plate Mode NURBS raytracing

2015-03-26 Thread Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa
I don't know if this will be of use to you, but this topic has remembered me of this paper: Ingo Wald, Hans-Peter Seidel, Interactive Ray Tracing of Point-based Models (2005) http://www.sci.utah.edu/~wald/Publications/2005/pointbased/pointbased.pdf On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Kalpit Thakkar

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

2015-03-26 Thread Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa < vasco.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok. The boolean weaving seems more interesting. Besides being possible to > store similarly to a kd-tree with ropes, like you said, it's also possible > that we can do some sort of static optimization

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

2015-03-26 Thread Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa
Ok. The boolean weaving seems more interesting. Besides being possible to store similarly to a kd-tree with ropes, like you said, it's also possible that we can do some sort of static optimization on the logic expressions here. For example if we have an intersection operation and we miss one of the

Re: [brlcad-devel] Python Geometry

2015-03-26 Thread Nathan McCorkle
I don't really know TCL, so I started using python to store and pipe TCL commands to the various brlcad programs. It doesn't crash on me, but I don't parse the stdout or stderr to check for bad syntax issues either... So it's probably not the best way to go about it, but it has been helpful since I

[brlcad-devel] Python Geometry

2015-03-26 Thread lesha suharevich
Hello, My name is Alexey Suharevich. *(Pardon for my English.)*I am a third year student in the Computer Science Program at Belarusian State University. I'm interesting in Python geometry task. I have experience in Python and C (besides of these, I know C++, C# and Java), and have basic knowle