Re: [brlcad-devel] [GSOC 2015] Participant - Materials Database Project

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:18 AM, Chinmaya Patanaik patanaikchinm...@gmail.com wrote: I am a first year masters student from Prague, Czech Republic. I am interested in contributing to 'Materials Database' project under BRL-CAD. Welcome Chinmaya! I went through the github repository. It seems

Re: [brlcad-devel] Mediawiki 3D Geometry Extension

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Welcome Aarti! On Mar 22, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Aarti K. Dwivedi ellydwivedi2...@gmail.com wrote: I completed GSoC 2013 with Wikimedia and GSoC 2014 with Portland State University. Any reason you haven’t continued to work with either/both of them? Can someone please guide me to a page

Re: [brlcad-devel] Real-Time Ray Tracing

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 21, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa vasco.co...@gmail.com wrote: I looked some more at the code and yeah the weave booleans step is branch heavy and has gotos in it. So this is most likely a bad candidate for GPU acceleration since a GPU will have like a quarter of

[brlcad-devel] My GSOC proposal for Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

2015-03-23 Thread Hitesh Sofat
@Sean, Cliff I have written my gsoc proposal. I needed your help regarding my gsoc proposal please tell me about new update regarding my work which are not mention in proposal as well as structure of proposal. Please tell me about any other module (if any ) which I need to add in my proposal.

Re: [brlcad-devel] [GSOC 2015] Participant - Materials DatabaseProject

2015-03-23 Thread Chinmaya Patanaik
Hi Sean, Currently I am setting up the project on my local system. I went through last year's proposal and I have some new ideas that I would like to mention. Some of the major features that I want to work on are listed below. 1. User signup/login using their social media accounts(Google,

[brlcad-devel] [GSOC 2015] Participant - Materials Database Project

2015-03-23 Thread Chinmaya Patanaik
Hi, I am a first year masters student from Prague, Czech Republic. I am interested in contributing to 'Materials Database' project under BRL-CAD. I am comfortable with Python and various web development technologies. I also have decent experience in building apps using Django framework. I have

Re: [brlcad-devel] Combination in LIBRT

2015-03-23 Thread Kalpit Thakkar
Hello! I have submitted my proposal on Melange. Do take a look whenever possible. I have not yet understood how exactly am I going to code this thing while the idea is pretty clear to me. I'm not able to visualize how the code would look like. I'm working on it and will get back to you about it

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015 Introduction

2015-03-23 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Ilinca Andrei andrei.ilinc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been reading, documenting, doing research and speaking with OpenSCAD mentors a lot these days and I've managed to come up with following solutions and conclusions regarding the OpenSCAD Importer

Re: [brlcad-devel] My GSOC proposal for Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Hitesh, It’s clear that taking the initiative to get involved months ago has helped you research and understand the requirements of what you’re proposing. Well done. The overall structure is fine. As to your technical approach, I’d personally prefer to not involve MySQL at all for change

Re: [brlcad-devel] [GSOC 2015] Participant - Materials DatabaseProject

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 23, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Chinmaya Patanaik patanaikchinm...@gmail.com wrote: • User signup/login using their social media accounts(Google, Facebook, Twitter). Use OAuth for user authentication. There are a lot of excellent django libraries available such as django-allauth,

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2015 Introduction

2015-03-23 Thread Ilinca Andrei
Hello, I have been reading, documenting, doing research and speaking with OpenSCAD mentors a lot these days and I've managed to come up with following solutions and conclusions regarding the OpenSCAD Importer project : 1) The idea of using the FreeCAD LGPL python parser and implementing it into

Re: [brlcad-devel] Mediawiki 3D Geometry Extension

2015-03-23 Thread Aarti K. Dwivedi
Hi! The GSoC 2014 project was like a standalone project and I am currently working on extending VisualEditor to Wikisource. Is there any basic expectation from the extension that the community has? Cheers, Aarti ᐧ On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison brl...@mac.com wrote:

[brlcad-devel] Plate Mode NURBS raytracing

2015-03-23 Thread Kalpit Thakkar
Hello Sean! I was thinking of proposing another project and I would like to work on this project. I checked past 3-4 years' projects, but there hasn't been any efforts in this direction. So, according to the description there, BoT has a raytracing routine that, when finds an in point for a ray,

Re: [brlcad-devel] GSOC'15: NURBS Editing Support

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Nihar, this is a lot of highly involved technical questions and not really much time to get into detail. I suggest you just research as much as possible to understand approaches and make a proposal to the best of your understanding. That said, I’m not sure any of this is answerable without

Re: [brlcad-devel] Plate Mode NURBS raytracing

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:05 PM, Kalpit Thakkar ceasy...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sean! I was thinking of proposing another project and I would like to work on this project. I checked past 3-4 years' projects, but there hasn't been any efforts in this direction. Indeed. It’s not a hard