Hi, FYI: Google FAQ explicitly states that students should work individually on their own project.
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq -Ton- -------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > On 2 Mar, 2016, at 14:58, Sergey Sharybin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Answers are inlined. > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Matthias Fauconneau < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Sergey, >> >> I was thinking of participating to GSoC again this year. >> > > That's good! > > >> If we could allocate two slots on motion tracking, we could do an UI >> / backend cooperation like I did with you in 2011. >> > > Guess you're talking about collaborating with Tianwei Shen on this project? > Then it's a bit tricky to separate scopes too much at the current state. > Additionally, i don't see just working on interface for a new tools is a > sufficient GSoC project. It's not _that_ much work in UI to be done anyway. > > >> This would allow us to expand the scope of the project to make >> sure Blender meets users requirements for VFX. >> The other two smaller projects could be folded in since: >> - Variable camera lens focal length support should be a matter >> of integrating the additional parameter in the resolution. >> > > That is indeed a nice project. > > >> - Lens distortion estimation and grid calibration backend was done in 2011 >> and is mostly frontend work at this point. >> > > It's not just a frontend work. The project was just a hook to OpenCV, which > is not acceptable for Blender's upstream. Additionally, we now can do > much-much better job on estimation/calibration using Ceres. > > -- > With best regards, Sergey Sharybin > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
