Google Summer of Code/2013

GSoC 2013 With BRL-CAD

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

Following is a summary of our 7 GSoC students accepted to work on projects for BRL-CAD, all successful. See the links to their personal profile, development logs, and project page.

Accepted Projects

Image Processing Library (LIBICV)

• Summary : To consolidate and add image processing functions to LIBICV an image processing library in BRL-CAD.
• Student :Mohit Daga
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

NURBS Intersections

• Summary: Calculate NURBS surface-surface intersections for NURBS evaluation.
• Student :Jianbang Wu
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

STEP libraries

• Summary: Cleanup and performance enhancements in STEP, current standard for exchange of CAD data.
• Student: Kesha Shah
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Pull Routine for reversing the effects of push on Geometry

• [Summary]:The pull routine restores the matrix transformations for all nodes on a CSG tree.
• Student: Nyah Check
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-melange

New Cross-Platform 3D Display Manager

• Summary: Creating a new cross-platform 3D display manager using Qt.
• Student: Bogolin Simion Vlad
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Web Interface of BRL-CAD

• Summary: To enable the user to make 3D models in BRL-CAD from browser.
• Student: Harmanpreet Singh
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Heart primitive

• Summary: Implementing a three-dimensional heart primitive used for CSG modelling .
• Student: Isaac Kamga
• Project Proposal
• Development logs
• 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 were accepted at http://google-melange.com from April 22nd until May 3rd.