Editing Google Summer of Code/Project Ideas

The list of possible projects below should serve as a good starting point for new developers that would like to get involved in working on BRL-CAD. The ideas below range from the very hard and math intense to the very easy, feel free to scale the scope of the project up or down as needed. The suggested project ideas below are merely starting points. In addition to those below, you may also want to consider some of these ideas.

A detailed articulate (i.e. excellent) proposal that has been discussed with us beforehand will generally trump any listed priority. Please do contact us (IRC or brlcad-devel mailing list) if you have any questions, corrections, comments, or ideas of your own that you'd like to suggest.

Be sure to read up on our application process for getting started with your proposal submission if you have not done so already. 

= Project Ideas =.

== <AN IDEA OF YOUR OWN> ==

Do you have an idea of your own? Let us know and maybe we'll like it too.  We're very open to new ideas, areas of academic research, industry applications, and any other ways that may help get you hooked on BRL-CAD development.  Just remember that BRL-CAD is a solid modeling CAD suite so keep that in mind when scoping your project.  The idea needs to fit in with our project goals, it needs to be specific, and it needs to be detailed.

Requirements:

*Passion for the task being suggested
*Buy-in from one of the existing developers

Difficulty: variable

== Display Managers ==

BRL-CAD uses a display manager to view geometry (wireframes, text, overlayed framebuffers) in graphical applications such as MGED.  Current display managers talk directly to low level graphical toolkits such as X and OpenGL.  

* [[OGRE]]
* [[Qt]]