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= Monday, May 4, 2015 =

* considered some alternate plans for proposal
* fixed out-of-source builds issue for Eclipse IDE (need to build in sibling directory instead of sub-directory)
* after complete reinstall of Ubuntu / upgrade, system packages installed
* contacted GSoC mentor about weekly mtgs
* created place-holder pages on BRL-CAD wiki
* tested updating local repo copy and rebuild of BRL-CAD, etc.

= Tuesday, May 5, 2015 =

* further consideration of proposal updates
* editing / formatting of dissertation
* reviewed research paper for Visweek
* worked out weekly interactive mtg schedule with mentor (starseeker) on IRC

= Wednesday, May 6, 2015 =
* formatting / editing dissertation for June 11th defense

= Thursday, May 7, 2015 =

* formatting / editing dissertation 
* defense may be moved a week earlier to 6/1-6/5

= Friday, May 8, 2015 =

* sick day - caught flu of some kind
* handled administrative email stuff
* weekend TODO: update proposal per google-melange requests

= Saturday, May 9, 2015 =

* multi-day flu

= Sunday, May 10, 2015 =

* multi-day flu

= Monday, May 11, 2015 =

* still sick
* edits to dissertation
* re-read parts of NMG paper
* made sure svn update works with Eclipse
* will update proposal over the next few days after more recovery from illness

= Tuesday, May 12, 2015 =

* recovering from viral sinus infection, prognosis: ~1 week
* reading documents in downtime
* scheduling with committee

= Wednesday, May 13, 2015 =

* recovering from viral sinus infection, prognosis: ~1 week
* reading documents in downtime

= Thursday, May 14, 2015 =

* ditto

= Friday, May 15, 2015 =

* ditto

= Saturday, May 16, 2015 =

* ditto

= Sunday, May 17, 2015 =

* ditto

= Monday, May 18, 2015 =

* recovered mostly from flu
* adding needed changes to dissertation for defense on June 3rd
* plan to update proposal later tomorrow / Wednesday

= Tuesday, May 19, 2015 =

* dissertation edits / mtgs with visiting prof.

= Wednesday, May 20, 2015 =

* dissertation edits / mtgs with visiting prof.

= Thursday, May 21, 2015 =

* read thru Volume II - Intro to MGED
* determined how to convert primitives to nmg via facetize command
* investigated relevant source: librt/primitives/nmg/*; nmg_mk.c, nmg.c, etc.
* considering command design for direct edits of nmg data structure (to be added to proposal)
* todo: need to investigate how to add commands for mged / archer

= Friday, May 22, 2015 =

* received info from starseeker as to how to implement new command line functions
* updated proposal on google-melange
* will post updated prop on BRL-CAD Wiki and make a note in IRC

= Saturday, May 23, 2015 =

* covered some maths, i.e. orthogonal function expansions (not necessarily relevant to current work)

= Sunday, May 24, 2015 =

* covered some maths, i.e. orthogonal function expansions (not necessarily relevant to current work)

= Monday, May 25, 2015: '''''GSoC 2015 coding period starts''''' =

* 8 hours preparing slides for dissertation defense (with another day of work likely)
* perused NMG paper entitled, "Manifold Boundary Representation for Solid Modelling" by Gueorguieva, et al.
* todo: investigate patch for command addition (tomorrow)
* todo: work out how to manage local version control for brl-cad trunk

= Tuesday, May 26, 2015 =

* 8+ hours on dissertation + slides edits (more revisions requested by advisor)
* todo: command-line addition as stated (likely to be done late-thurs / fri / sat)

= Wednesday, May 27, 2015 =

* created github repo for local change revisions @ https://github.com/behollis/brlcad-svn-rev65072-gsoc2015 (temp until commit access with brlcad svn)
* will periodically integrate trunk revisions to git repo "branch"
* looking at revisions: The Mged simulate command is implemented here(as a libged function); The Mged simulate command is implemented here(as a libged function)
* todo: look at gci patch "mesh" command
* updating dissertation (4hrs+); need this done by evening tomorrow
* need dissertation slides by monday (applied ~1.5hrs)

= Thursday, May 28, 2015 =

* caught in a edit cycle with dissertation; ~8+ hours of edits

= Friday, May 29, 2015 =

= Saturday, May 30, 2015 =

= Sunday, May 31, 2015 =
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 = Thursday, May 28, 2015 =
-* caught in an edit cycle with dissertation; ~8+ hours of edits
+* caught in a edit cycle with dissertation; ~8+ hours of edits
 = Friday, May 29, 2015 =
-* started adding libged command stubs in src/libged for nmg construction routines
-* putting all common types of commands in single file for now
-* may be better to have individual files for each with new subdir
-* following examples for libged/nmg_simplify.c, libged/facetize.c, etc.
-* missed 10AM PDT mtg in IRC with starseeker. will try to mtg sat / sun instead.
 = Saturday, May 30, 2015 =
-* working on dissertation edits / slides
 = Sunday, May 31, 2015 =
-* working on dissertation edits / slides