Editing Google Summer of Code/2012

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= Getting started =

'''BRL-CAD IS PARTICIPATING as a [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/brlcad mentoring organization] in the 2012 Google Summer of Code!'''   Included below is a summary of our 11 GSoC students working on BRL-CAD with links to their project pages and development logs for anyone interested in obtaining more information.  

= Accepted Proposals =

== Voxelize Command==
* Summary: Create a command that converts solid geometry into a volumetric representation format. 
* Student: [[User:Anuragmurty| Anurag Murty]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Anuragmurty#Development_Log
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/anuragmurty/22001

== Visualizing Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)==
* Summary: Create an interactive GUI showing the structure of geometry, visualizing its directed acyclic graph.
* Student: [[User:Cprecup| Cristina Precup]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Cprecup/GSoC2012_progress
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/cp/42002

== Code Refactoring for Reduced Maintenance Cost ==
* Summary: Reduce, reuse, recycle.  Leaner and meaner code.
* Student: [[User:Ksuzee| Ksenija Slivko]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Ksuzee/Reports
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/ksuzee/17001

== Trimmed NURBS Tesselation==
* Summary: Convert NURBS surface geometry into polygonal meshes for fast visualization.
* Student: [[User:Plussai| Laijiren]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Plussai/GSoC_2012_log
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/plussai/17001

== Benchmark Performance Database==
* Summary: Create a website around the BRL-CAD Benchmark Suite
* Student: [[User:Stattrav| Suryajith Chillara]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Stattrav/GSoC2012_log
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/suryajith/34002

== Implicit to NURBS Conversion==
* Summary: Helping BRL-CAD become more of a hybrid modeling system with better visualization.
* Student: [[User:Phoenix| Wu Jianbang]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Phoenix/GSoc2012/Reports
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/phoenixyjll/22001

== Package Library Extensions==
* Summary: Improving BRL-CAD's networking library, one of the oldest and most robust around.
* Student: [[User:Popescu.andrei1991| Andrei Popescu]]
* Dev Log: '''''FIXME'''''
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/popescuandrei/32001

== Volume and Centroid Functions for Primitives==
* Summary: Directly and exactly calculate basic mathematical properties for our 3D primitives.
* Student: [[User:Crdueck| Chris Dueck]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Crdueck/log
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/crdueck/18001

== Non-Vacuum Gravity Simulator ==
* Summary: Improving current simulation functions to be more accurate and take account of more factors.
* Student: [[User:Al_Da_Best| Alex Taylor]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Al_Da_Best/devlog
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/al_da_best/28001

== Cross-platform 3D Display Manager ==
* Summary: Developing a cross platform 3D Display Manager for BRL-CAD
* Student: [[User:Mesut| Mesut Oezdogan]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Mesut/Reports
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/kane/39001

== Consolidate image processing ==
* Summary: Convert all existing image conversion tools to a new programming library.
* Student: [[User:Anoop| Anoop Malav]]
* Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Anoop/Logs
* http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/crazyphoton/18002

= Additional Information =

Students discussed and collaborated with BRL-CAD developers on formulating projects with most selecting from a detailed list of project suggestions from our [[Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas|Project Ideas]] page.   Student applications for [[Google_Summer_of_Code|GSoC]] were accepted at http://socghop.appspot.com from March 26th until April 6th.

[[Category: Summer of Code]]