"Lee, Edmund" <[email protected]> writes: >That sounds very exciting - I think Arches would make an ideal Summer >of Code project. Our experience in the U.K. is that heritage problems, >and the associated software, are simply more interesting to >programmers than yet another accountancy software package or similar >(with all respect to accountants :-)). > >One idea for the list: At Strasbourg last Summer someone asked if >Arches 'works in 3D'. I don't know enough about the coding side to >know if that is a big challenge or a simple one, but the idea that >Arches should be capable of incorporating and working with 3D >information (which I take to mean 3D landscape sources such as digital >terrain models, and Lidar surveys, plus 3D building or site models and >reconstructions) is an exciting one. Many of the presentations at >Strasbourg related to 3D survey techniques, and how these are becoming >routine in the sector. 3D is of course an idea that Google are >committed to via Google Earth, and projects they have sponsored such >as Google Model Your Town.
Dennis and the Farallon folks are the final word on viable Summer of Code ideas (or at least, more final than me), but for what it's worth, this sounds exciting but probably too big for a student to do in a summer. SoC projects tend to be successful when they involve well-bounded changes that won't have complicated implications for the rest of the code. "Make Arches work in 3D" would inevitably have implications throughout the code -- in internal data representation, in user interface, in input formats, etc. (Not that this is necessarily obvious from the outside, so I certainly understand why you'd suggest it.) But keep 'em coming! I completely agree with you that heritage problems are going to be more interesting to programmers than many other possible projects, even within the domain of available SoC projects. We should get some good applicants. Best, -Karl -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
