On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Florestan BRUNCK <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm studying Mathematics and Computer Science at McGill University, Montreal > and I'm very interested in participating in Blender development. I've been > using your software for seven years as a user so I'm really excited to be > able to contribute now. > > I'm really interested in the 'Higher Quality Solidify modifier" project, and > also the "Cycle denoiser" project but due to my current skill set I think my > contribution would be more valuable working on the Solidify Modifier. > > I have a very strong background in Mathematics and although I'm rather new to > coding I am comfortable in C, java, python, bash and assembly. > > I got Blender compiled on my computer and had a quick look at some of the > documentation. I've located the file MOD_solidify.c and started having a look > at it. > > I've read the documentation and it is my understanding that the main issue > with the modifier is that the wall thickness is an approximation and might be > uneven depending on the base model's topology. To rectify that we'd need to > create additional geometry on the outer shell built by the modifier. > > Can any of the mentors in charge of the project confirm that and maybe give > me more details as to what the project would consist in and what > (mini)-milestones they're expecting the student to reach ?
Hi Florestan, a higher quality solidify modifier involves creating an offset surface that resolves self intersections and may have very different topology to the original surface. An interesting paper on this topic http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2766955 Searching this list for solidify has some discussions on this topic: http://blender.markmail.org/search/?q=solidify#query:solidify%20list%3Aorg.blender.bf-committers+page:1+state:facets > I started drafting a proposal but obviously so far it's rather empty except > for the bio section : > https://www.dropbox.com/s/x76wcfj6hb21gje/gsoc-2016.pdf?dl=0. > > Thank you for your time, > > Florestan > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
