Google Summer of Code/2015

GSoC 2015 With BRL-CAD

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

We accepted 12 exceptional students that prepared quality proposals and demonstrated commitment through quality patches. Once again as an umbrella org, 4 of those students were selected for associated orgs LibreCAD, LinuxCNC, STEPcode, and OpenSCAD.

Accepted Projects

GPU Accelerated Ray Trace Rendering for BRL-CAD

• OpenCL-based accelerated ray trace rendering
• Student: Vasco Costa
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

Online Geometry Viewer (OGV)

• Geometry Model Viewer on Web : Front-End Development
• Student: Deepak Kumar Sharma
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Front-End : Production Ready Plan
• Development Logs

Online Geometry Viewer (OGV): Back-end

• Geometry Model Viewer on Web: Back-end Development
• Student: Shubham Chauhan
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Production Ready Plan
• Development Logs

Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

• merge the all docs with website and provide the editing option to user.
• Student: Hitesh Sofat
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

Povray export

• Converting BRL-CAD geometry into POV-Ray format
• Student: Gurwinder Singh
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

OpenSCAD Importer

• Converting OpenSCAD geometry into BRL-CAD format
• Student: Andrei Ilinca
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

Object-Oriented C++ Geometry API

• Adding Volume, Centroid and Surface Area functions for primitives (Enhancing GE)
• Student : Kalpit Thakkar
• Mentor : Daniel Roßberg (d_rossberg)
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

STEP Geometry Viewer

• A stand-alone STEP file viewer with great functionalities.
• Student : Milinda Fernando
• Mentor : Charlie Stirk
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

NMG / BoT Editing

• Command-line interface for NMG / BoT editing.
• Student : Brad Hollister
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

X3D Importer

• A converter to convert from X3D file format to BRL-CAD format
• Student: Konrad Djimeli
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

ScadLexer for OpenSCAD

• Lexer for QScintilla Editor.
• Student: Shaina Sabarwal
• Abstract
• Proposal
• Development Logs

Conic Curve Support for LibreCAD

• Building Conic curve support (Hyperbola and Parabola) for LibreCAD.
• Student: Ngassa Amalia
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development logs

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• Abstract
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