> I'm Siddharth Kothiyal and I'm a CSE junior at MIT, Manipal. Hi Siddharth, thanks for the intro!
> I'm very interested in working on topics under 'Research and Scientific > Analysis' like 'Analysis Library', 'Celestial Mechanism particle system', > 'Non-vacuum gravity simulation', 'Density Function' and 'Bending Light' with > BRL-CAD under Google Summer of Code 2017. A bunch of progress has been made in the past two years on a gravity simulation system, so that would require a fair bit of research on your part to figure out what bits are missing, to propose something solid that extends current capability. Working on our analysis library would probably be the most impactful, but requires gaining an in-depth understanding of BRL-CAD’s librt-based applications. Basically, there’s a lot of logic spread across a bunch of tools that performs ray tracing. Ray dispatch needs to be parameterized so shooting different patterns is much easier than is currently required, and so we can support more advanced patterns (like spherical statistical sampling) > I am well experienced in Python and C and started using OpenGL to render 3D > objects only a couple of months ago. I love physics, specially > electromagnetism, sometimes in my free time I wonder how this field is yet to > be explored to it's full potential and what day to day application we can > have with it. Your challenge will be learning and working with lots of existing code. Any project proposal should be presented as an extension of existing capability (and demonstrably showing your understanding of the current capability). > I would like to know if I can combine multiple projects ideas into one, and > please let me know where the existing code for the related project ideas is > present. > Please let me know how do I proceed with it. You absolutely can customize your proposal. There are references for all of the project ideas you mentioned — just follow the title to their descriptions. The code references obviously require a checkout of BRL-CAD. Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
