You can make an ideas section for the main website; when James ran the
project he used Jira and had issues marked as "Wish" for this role.

Jody

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Michael Bedward
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Every so often I come across a code-snippet or paper and think "ah,
> this algorithm / analysis / example / idea could be used in GeoTools".
>  The Google SoC page had me musing about this too... in terms of
> having that uncomfortable feeling that I know I'd come across
> something that would make a nice SoC project a while ago, but I can't
> remember what it was :-(
>
> What do you think about setting up a simple page on the wiki for these
> gems ?  It could then be a resource for students, enthusiastic
> contributors or just people seeking a bit of displacement activity.
>
> Here's an example of the sort of thing I mean...
>
> Representing / rendering point cloud data with linear features
>
> Paper published in Visual Computer (2007)
>
> Abstract Point clouds are usually represented either globally, as
> surfaces, or locally, as sets of points with small neighbourhoods. We
> propose an intermediate representation, called ribbons, which is
> obtained by partitioning a point cloud into one-dimensional strips.
> This representation is well suited to the placement of strokes in
> non-photorealistic rendering, and can be visualized efficiently using
> quad strips. Methods for performing hatching, cross hatching, and
> silhouette renderings are presented. Ribbons also allow for the
> application of curve-based operations to the point cloud.
>
> Manuscript available here:
> http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/ribbons.cgi2007.pdf
>
> cheers
> Michael
>
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