Google Summer of Code/2014

GSoC 2014 With BRL-CAD

BRL-CAD has applied as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code!

We intend to accept at least as many students as we have mentors and quality student proposals. Once announced, a summary of our GSoC students accepted to work on projects for BRL-CAD will be posted here.

Accepted Projects

Benchmark Performance Database

• Objective : Build a database and visualization website for the BRL-CAD Benchmarks.
• Student : Ankesh Anand
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Embedding a framebuffer window

• Objective : Creating a new cross platform Qt framebuffer and embedding a framebuffer window in the actual Qt display manager.
• Student : Bogolin Simion Vlad
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Online Geometry Viewer

• Objective : Port existing Online Geometry Viewer to node.js, and improve it.
• Student : Inderpreet Singh
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

STEP Libraries: Improving Thread Safety and Performance

• Objective : Modify the existing STEP Libraries to make them thread safe. Implement multithreading (atleast) in lazyloading. Identify exisitig bottlenecks and improve the performance of the serial code.
• Student : Pulkit Mittal
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Creating a Geometry Conversion Library

• Objective: To produce a new programming library that provides a clean API for converting geometry between formats
• Student: Henry Curtis
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Project Description on Google-Melange

Mesh Library Cleanup

• Objective: Clean, validate and verify relevant source code about NMG, and then add the missing Euler Operation to it.
• Student: Zhao Anqing
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

UI Brushup of OpenSCAD

• Objective : To improve the UI of OpenSCAD by removing existing bugs and adding new features.
• Student : Shaina Sabarwal
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

Python Geometry

• Objective : To write Python Bindings for BRL-CAD Geometry
• Student : Raj K. Reddy
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Materials Database Project

• Objective : To make a web application where users can easily store / retrieve the properties or traits of materials in a methodical manner.
• Student : Albert
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

Object-oriented C++ Geometry API

• Objective : Implement a number of selected primitives in an OOP manner, according to the rt_*_internal structure
• Student : Andrei Popescu
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

LibreCAD Kernel

• Objective : To create a 2D Kernel of LibreCAD's version 3.
• Student : [brlcad.org/wiki/User:Gaganjyotsingh/ Gaganjyot]
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

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 will be accepted at http://google-melange.com from March 10 through March 21.