Google Summer of Code/2016

GSoC 2016 With BRL-CAD

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

We accepted 9 students that prepared quality proposals and demonstrated commitment, with details below for those students that were successful. As an umbrella org, several students were selected for associated orgs LibreCAD, OpenSCAD, and FreeCAD.

Accepted Projects

Automatic Polygonal Mesh Healing

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• Student: Rakshika Bagavathy
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BRL-CAD Web Infrastructure Update

• Create brand new main website and wiki update
• Student: Oleksandr Dubenko
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User Interface for Customizing Models

• Create user interface to Customize Model interactively instead of modifying them manually.
• Student: Amarjeet Singh Kapoor
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GPGPU Support for Boolean Evaluation Used in Ray Tracing

• Accelerate Boolean Evauluation using a GPU, if available
• Student: Param Hanji
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LibreCAD 3 Scriptable User Interface Creation

• Create GUI for operations and allow it to be modified without recompilation
• Student: Florian Roméo
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LibreCAD V3 Bezier and FILE I/O

• Adding support of beziers and DXF output to LibreCAD_3
• Student: Gaganjyot Singh
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Online Geometry Viewer

• Making OGV production ready and available to use for a wider majority of people.

• Student: Gauravjeet Singh
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Plate Mode NURBS raytracing

• Implementing plate mode raytracing for NURBS surfaces
• Student: Bojian Wu
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The FreeCAD Plugin Installer

• The main idea is to implement a plugin manager for FreeCAD that will be used to install/remove/update plugins and other unofficial workbenches or modules and macros.
• Student: Mandeep Singh
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