On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa <
vasco.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I added two tasks to write the code to port the missing OpenCL
> ray-quadric intersection routines. I'm not asking the students to write the
> C/OpenCL glue code because I think this will make things harder for
> highschoolers. It is probably also best not to require them to compile and
> verify their code as well. We can just plain desk check it.
>
> I added the Heart (HRT), and Hyperboloid (HYP) primitives as separate
> tasks. I put 3 days as the time to do it. I'm not sure if this is enough.
> Could use some feedback on how digestible these tasks are.
>
PS: I considered adding a separate task for someone to write the glue code
but that would require compiling the source code and knowing both C and
OpenCL. Not to mention that it will be kind of dry and possibly
uninteresting work. So I'm kind of unsure if I should add a task like that.
> Regards,
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> With a surge of mentors stepping up at the last minute, BRL-CAD applied
>> and was once again accepted into the Google Code-In (GCI) competition!
>> Thank you to all that are willing to help.
>>
>> We have a little over two weeks to define initial tasks and get ready.
>> I’ll reach out to those willing to mentor separately with details. Help
>> from everyone getting set up is appreciated. We especially need some
>> brainstorming help defining “sets” of useful tasks that result in a useful
>> feature..
>>
>> There are two types of GCI tasks: beginner and regular tasks. For
>> beginner, we assume absolutely nothing about their experience or
>> background. Downloading and installing BRL-CAD is a good example. Regular
>> tasks have to have any requirements written down and still keep the work in
>> the 2-4 hour timeframe.
>>
>> Feel free to brainstorm task ideas on IRC or here on the list. The
>> doc/STRATEGY file in our repo ( http://svn.code.sf.net/p/brlca
>> d/code/brlcad/trunk/doc/STRATEGY ) lists a lot of areas of interest and
>> priority projects that might be a good starting point.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Sean
>>
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> Instituto Superior Técnico/University of Lisbon, Portugal
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