Editing User:Gabbar1947/GSOC17/Report

=='''Annotations: Implement support for 2D  annotations | Project Report'''==

The project was divided into two parts:
*Creating a new primitive for annotations
*Rendering the primitives to the wireframe view
*Support for the screen projection

==='''Creating a new primitive for annotations'''===

*What was basically required was a container to hold things together

   https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/469/#ea23
   https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/469/#34f1

==='''Rendering the primitive on screen'''===
*The next part was to add support for the visualization of the primitive
*Input for the primitive also handled through the 'in' command in the patches mentioned below
  
  https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/471/#97f3
  https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/471/#4b72

==='''Support for the 3D->2D projection'''===

*Annotations always remain in the plane of the screen
*Modifying the projection matrices for all the display managers was another task
*Scaling the annotations was another issue
*All of this was handled by the patches mentioned below

   https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/471/#cd2e
   https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/471/#acd7


'''Project Extension'''

After discussions with the mentors, some extension ideas came up:

*Functionality to set up the annotation properties for the primitive
*Extension for the geometric shape of the annotation
*Common functionality for the annotation and the sketch primitive in order to reduce redundancy
*Features related to the coordinate system like the annotation scaling
*Algorithm to provide a bounding box for the text using the relative coordinates
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 ==='''Support for the 3D->2D projection'''===
-{|align="right"
- |[[Image:Example_annot.png|thumb|256px|Example annot object created with the in command]]
- |}
 *Annotations always remain in the plane of the screen
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     https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/471/#acd7
-Here is the link to my  [https://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Gabbar1947 Proposal]
-The tasks mentioned in the proposal are completed, just the extension ideas need to be worked upon.
 '''Project Extension'''
-*These are some of the tasks that I aim to work on in the near future:
-**Functionality to set up the annotation properties for the primitive( the annotate command)
+After discussions with the mentors, some extension ideas came up:
-**Features related to the coordinate system like the annotation scaling
-**Algorithm to provide a bounding box for the text using the relative coordinates
-**Editor for the annotations just like the sketch primitive has
-'''Documentation'''
+*Functionality to set up the annotation properties for the primitive
-*Documentation has been provided  [https://brlcad.org/wiki/Annot here].
+*Extension for the geometric shape of the annotation
-*[https://rathoresaab.wordpress.com/gsoclogs Link] to my daily logs.
+*Common functionality for the annotation and the sketch primitive in order to reduce redundancy
+*Features related to the coordinate system like the annotation scaling
+*Algorithm to provide a bounding box for the text using the relative coordinates