Editing User:Gurwinder Singh/GSoc15/log development

=== Project Details ===

Name: Gurwinder Singh Bains

IRC Name: Gurwinder

e-mail: gswithbains@gmail.com



=== Community Bonding Period work ===

* Working on Glade and follow some tutorial to get my hand on it.
* Understand some primitives and find a way to export them.
* Start studying about POV-Ray macros.

=== Coding Period ===

=Week 1( Export [http://brlcad.org/tmp/primitives/part.png Part] )=

25 May 
* Understand particale and take reference from other converters
I understood how the coordinates of vertices of particale are stored. Now I'm working on exporting the vertices and then move on to export into POV-Ray format.

26 May 
* Pushed one commit to github.
* Export coordinates of Particale successfully.
My ubuntu got crashed so I have to reinstall it. I will be compiling BRL-CAD after that I am on track again.

27 May 
* Export particale but requires to fix errors.
Today I was busy in my exam. But in evening I got time to export particale.

28 May 
* Done exporting of Particale primitive.
* Testing it with POV-Ray.
I am now working on linuxcnc. Starts from backslash task for it.

29 May 
* Working on linuxCNC. Search related to backslash.
* Taking other softwares as refrence. 

30 May 
* Fix some error in POV-Ray export.
* Working on LinuxCNC, taking help from Youtube videos. Discuss with Morley
about backslash.

31 May 
* Just search about other possible primitives that are not in proposal.

= Part primitive in POV-Ray =
[http://postimg.org/image/u4w35ou03/ Here] is the screen shoot of how part looks after conversion in POV-Ray 

= Week 2( Export [http://brlcad.org/tmp/primitives/ell.png ell] )=

1 June 
* Found where the coordinates are stored.
* Export those coordinates simply.
* Working on other possible primitives( not in proposal ).

2 June 
* Compare and test the ellipse formed by BRL-CAD and POV-Ray.
* Found some more primitives that I can export.

3 June 
* Export ellipse.
* Working on rotation of ellipse.

4 June 
* Was Busy in traveling.
* Just looked into some ways to rotate ellipse.

5 June 
* Export ell successfully

6 June 
* Start linuxcnc
* Cloning and Compiling on my new system

7 June 
* Compile Linuxcnc successfully
* Know how to use it.

= Ell primitive in POV-Ray =
[http://postimg.org/image/ub9s8s34z/ Here] is the screen shoot of how ell looks after conversion in POV-Ray 

= Week 3( Export [http://brlcad.org/tmp/primitives/arb8.png arb8] ) =

8 June 
* Start working with arb8
* Export coordinates of arb8

9 June 
* Export arb8
* Export tgc
* Working on linuxcnc

10 June 
* Working on Linuxcnc Help pages.

11 June 
* Was at busy at my college.

12 June 
* Working on linuxcnc stepconf.

13 June 
* Working on help button.

14 June 
* Clean up g-pov code

= Arb8 primitive in POV-Ray =
[http://postimg.org/image/qhkxddb6r/ Here] is the screen shoot of how arb8 looks after conversion in POV-Ray 

= Week 4( Export [http://brlcad.org/tmp/primitives/tgc.png tgc] )  =

15 June 
* Clean up tgc code
* Remove error from exporting into POV-Ray
* Change some settings of Help button of Linuxcnc

16 June 
* Do code clean up
* Submit my patch

17 June 
* Rebuild BRL-CAD on my system 
* Working on patch

18 June 
* Remove some errors
* Edit files to compile g-pov correctly

19 June 
* Was busy at college for some paper work

20 June 
* Prepare for Patch

21 June 
* Working on writing output into file

= Tgc primitive in POV-Ray =
[http://postimg.org/image/643fsu09v/ Here] is the screen shoot of how tgc looks after conversion in POV-Ray 

= Week 5 =

22 June 
* Writing the code according to coding standard 

23 June 
* Remove some errors and working on output file option.

24 June 
* Setting file for commit
* Push code on Git repository successfully

25 June 
* Do some tutorial on Glade 
* Checking the help pages for stepconf
* Trying to solve segmentation error

26 June 
* Communicate with my mentor of BRLCAD.
* Communicate with Linuxcnc member

= Pre-midterm Evaluation Summary =
I have started my GSOC with part primitive. Its easy for me to export coordinates of part. Then I export part into POV-Ray by using Round_Cone2 object. In next week it started exporting Ell. I found it difficult as I was not able to rotate ellipse but in last I export ell into POV-Ray by using spheroid object. In week third, I was working on arb8. Its harder for me to export. So I discussed it with POV-Ray community and finally I wrote a macro and I was able to export arb8 successfully. In 4th week, I export tgc successfully. In last week, I clean up code and submit POV-Ray converter as a [http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/378/ patch]. I was also working on Linuxcnc in these pre-midterm days. I wrote stepconf help pages that will be used while user click on help button of stepconf of linuxcnc.


= Mid Term Evaluation Week =

27 June
* Do nothing

28 June
* Just search about python for linuxcnc

29 June
* Started python from youtube tutorials.
* Set Log of pre-mid term time period.

30 June
* Do first chapter: Intro of Python.
* Start following the [http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ book]

1 July
* Complete 10 Exercises of Book [http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/index.html Learn Python by Hard Way].
* Start doing next exercise.

2 July - 3 July
* Done upto 17 exercises of [http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/index.html Learn Python by Hard Way].

6 July
* Done 24 excercises of [http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/index.html Learn Python by Hard Way].

7 July - 8 July
* Done upto 30 excersises and do some examples.
* Busy in admission work.

8 July - 9 July
* Do some excersises on python.
* Busy in admission paper completition.

13 July
* Completed basics of python.
* Done 43 excerssises on python

14 July
* Test Glade with python.
* Make my older changer in work
* Prepare for exam.

15 July
* Discuss on next work with my mentor
* Search about rhc and rpc

16 July
* Successfully export rhc coordinates
* Working on rhc to export it in POV-Ray

17 July
* Making a macro for rhc my using equations in POV-Ray
* Successfully export coordinates of rpc, epa, ehy

20 July
* Working on rhc and rpc export.
* Make half macro in working condition of elliptical torus.

21 July
* Elliptical torus is working.
* Working on its major and minor axis of its ellipse.

22 July - 23 July
* Busy at college, submit papers.
* Work on torus's minor and major axis.
* Working on rhc and rpc.

25 July - 27 July
* Communitcation with my mentor.
* Write down primitives on BRL-CAD wiki page brlcad.org/wiki/Povray.

28 July
* Export coordinates of Half.
* Export Half successfully.
* Working on pipe.