Hello Chris, I am a user of BRL-CAD, not a programmer, who recently posted a project idea via Sean Morrison to convert a facetted line geometry into a line that uses BRL-CAD's native pipe solid. We have developed a Tcl script as a plugin to Archer (which will eventually be BRL-CAD's new GUI) that finds the end point of the facetted line and then steps through it at a user specified interval. Currently, the code has no method for using the pipe's bend radius attribute, therefore each bend is made of several vertices. The goal is to have a line in BRL-CAD that is editable for re-routing. If the bends have a lot of vertices the resultant pipe still cannot be re-routed with any degree of efficiency. Since this project is fairly new on the ideas page, I thought you may not have seen it. I also believe that your math skills would be more applicable than programming.
Regards, Robert Anderson SURVICE Engineering - DAO 4141 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Ste 209 Dayton, OH 45431 (937)431-9914 bob.ander...@survice.com -----Original Message----- From: crdueck [mailto:crdu...@uwaterloo.ca] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:17 PM To: brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [SURV_SPAM (Header)] - [brlcad-devel] GSoC: Hello All Hello everyone, my name is Chris and I'm hoping to participate in the Summer of Code 2012 with BRL-CAD. I'm a mathematics major at the University of Waterloo (Canada), with an interest in computer science and programming. I have little dev experience at the moment, but hopefully that will change this summer. I have a decent amount of experience in C (as well as scheme and python), and am willing to learn C++ if required. I would greatly prefer my GSoC project to be related to mathematics, as I am hoping to increase my mathematical knowledge by participating in the program, as well as getting some real dev experience in the opensource community and sharpening my programming skills. here are some of the projects that caught my eye, and i believe are within my range of ability: from http://brlcad.org/wiki/Contributor_Quickies#EASY:_Implement_a_primitive_volume_function - Implement a primitive surface area function - Implement a primitive volume function I'd hope to tackle as many primitives as possible for either of the above projects. http://brlcad.org/wiki/Geometry_Selection_Functionality and finally, http://brlcad.org/wiki/Implicit_to_NURBS_conversion this looks like it is currently beyond my scope, but the concept seems interesting. I'm unsure if its a suitable project for me though. I'd love to hear your thoughts on any of these project ideas, as well as any advice you may have for the application or anything related to GSoC at all really. thanks, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
