Google Summer of Code/2012

Getting started

BRL-CAD was accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2012 Google Summer of Code!

Below is a summary of our 11 GSoC students accepted to work on projects for BRL-CAD. For anyone interested in obtaining more information about a specific project, see the links to their personal profile, development logs, and project page.

Accepted Projects

Voxelize Command

• Summary: Create a command that converts solid geometry into a volumetric representation format.
• Student: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Andrei Popescu
• Dev Log: http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991#GsoC_2012_progress
• 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: 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: Enhancing current simulation system to improve accuracy and expand capabilities.
• Student: 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: 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: 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 Project Ideas page. Student applications for GSoC were accepted at http://socghop.appspot.com from March 26th until April 6th.