User:Bhollister/DevLogMay2015

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Monday, May 4, 2015

• considered some alternate plans for proposal
• fixed out-of-source builds issue for Eclipse IDE (need to build in sibling directory instead of sub-directory)
• after complete reinstall of Ubuntu / upgrade, system packages installed
• contacted GSoC mentor about weekly mtgs
• created place-holder pages on BRL-CAD wiki
• tested updating local repo copy and rebuild of BRL-CAD, etc.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

• further consideration of proposal updates
• editing / formatting of dissertation
• reviewed research paper for Visweek
• worked out weekly interactive mtg schedule with mentor (starseeker) on IRC

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

• formatting / editing dissertation for June 11th defense

Thursday, May 7, 2015

• formatting / editing dissertation
• defense may be moved a week earlier to 6/1-6/5

Friday, May 8, 2015

• sick day - caught flu of some kind
• handled administrative email stuff
• weekend TODO: update proposal per google-melange requests

Saturday, May 9, 2015

• multi-day flu

Sunday, May 10, 2015

• multi-day flu

Monday, May 11, 2015

• still sick
• edits to dissertation
• re-read parts of NMG paper
• made sure svn update works with Eclipse
• will update proposal over the next few days after more recovery from illness

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

• recovering from viral sinus infection, prognosis: ~1 week
• reading documents in downtime
• scheduling with committee

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

• recovering from viral sinus infection, prognosis: ~1 week
• reading documents in downtime

Thursday, May 14, 2015

• ditto

Friday, May 15, 2015

• ditto

Saturday, May 16, 2015

• ditto

Sunday, May 17, 2015

• ditto

Monday, May 18, 2015

• recovered mostly from flu
• adding needed changes to dissertation for defense on June 3rd
• plan to update proposal later tomorrow / Wednesday

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

• dissertation edits / mtgs with visiting prof.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

• dissertation edits / mtgs with visiting prof.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

• read thru Volume II - Intro to MGED
• determined how to convert primitives to nmg via facetize command
• investigated relevant source: librt/primitives/nmg/*; nmg_mk.c, nmg.c, etc.
• considering command design for direct edits of nmg data structure (to be added to proposal)
• todo: need to investigate how to add commands for mged / archer

Friday, May 22, 2015

• received info from starseeker as to how to implement new command line functions
• updated proposal on google-melange
• will post updated prop on BRL-CAD Wiki and make a note in IRC

Saturday, May 23, 2015

• covered some maths, i.e. orthogonal function expansions (not necessarily relevant to current work)

Sunday, May 24, 2015

• covered some maths, i.e. orthogonal function expansions (not necessarily relevant to current work)

Monday, May 25, 2015: GSoC 2015 coding period starts

• 8 hours preparing slides for dissertation defense (with another day of work likely)
• perused NMG paper entitled, "Manifold Boundary Representation for Solid Modelling" by Gueorguieva, et al.
• todo: investigate patch for command addition (tomorrow)
• todo: work out how to manage local version control for brl-cad trunk