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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

Example annot object created with the in command

• 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

Here is the link to my 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)
  • 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

• Documentation has been provided here.