Oops, little bit of a curious mail fail there in the middle. It was never expected that the project would be 'finished' within just that summer as it's a multi-year effort to bring up a new GUI. As far as his project was concerned, he was quite successful and excellent progress was made. There is also a separate... [continue rest here] ... :-)
The other projects did pretty great too with the addition of two new primitives and the working foundations for a parametric equation and constraint solving system that is still being worked on today. Even the struggling global illumination renderer ended up with the ability to render images. Some nice eye candy: http://brlcad.org/gallery/s/renderings/primitives/hyp.png.html http://brlcad.org/tmp/revolve.png You can read more about them on the wiki. http://brlcad.org/wiki/Developer_Documents Cheers! Sean On Apr 2, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > Absolutely, there was quite a bit accomplished (the sources are > available in the "brlcad" and "rt^3" module in our SVN repository)! > For the GUI specifically, Manuel continued to work on it so far as > his studies and personal family matters allowed. The progress he was > able to make is part of the reason why we are still interested in > having someone work on that task again this year. It was never > expected that the project woluThere is also a separate MGED+Archer > refactoring effort going on for the interim while the new GUI is > worked on (given it's expected to take multiple years to bring to a > production-quality state). > > The lack of a follow-up is more just me being overwhelmed with other > tasks to write up a detailed report for the summer's activities. > It's been started, just not finished yet. You're welcome to help > instead of gripe. ;-) > > Cheers! > Sean > > > > On Mar 22, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Laurin d'Volts wrote: > >> Did you guys even accomplish anything during the 2008 GSoC? >> I don't remember reading a follow-up on that. >> I thought a additional GUI was being worked on or something. >> >> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 08:09 -0400, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: >>> >>> Basically, say the final decision came down to two "perfect" >>> applications from two "perfect" students, but one applied to a high- >>> priority and the other for one of the additional projects. All >>> things being equal, we'd pick the high-priority applicant. >>> Fortunately, though, they never are equal. A very strong and >>> passionate application has a great change no matter what is >>> proposed. >>> >>> So please do propose working on boundary representation support! If >>> you have any questions, please do speak up. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Sean >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> -------- >> _______________________________________________ >> BRL-CAD Developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
