User:Schindler97/GSoC18/Log

Development Logs

Community Bonding Period

Progress through the community bonding period

• Week 1
  • Reviewed and understood Kanzure's implementation of python bindings : https://github.com/kanzure/python-brlcad
  • Read about ctypesgen and understood it's short-comings and advantages
  • Went through chapters 1-3 of mged tutorials
• Week 2
  • Reviewed and understood nmz787's implementation of python bindings : https://github.com/nmz787/python-brlcad-tcl
  • Delved into understanding how tcl scripts are parsed by mged
  • Implemented the ell primitive following nmz's methodology : https://github.com/Killthebug/python-brlcad-tcl/commit/a0973c5b42615e0ef53ba9c876ee14992e1df937
• Week3
  • Had a discussion with Sean about introducing procedural geometry
  • Went through OpenSCAD's workflow and tried to understand how they work with procedural geometry
  • Went through chapters 4-6 of mged tutorials

Coding Period

Progress through the coding period. Track changes in the current working repo : https://github.com/Killthebug/python-brlcad-tcl/commits/master

• Week 1
  • 14 May Introduced bindings and examples for primitives : arb4, arb5, arb7
  • 15 May Introduced bindings and examples for primitives : tec, trc
  • 16 May Introduced bindings and examples for primitives : rhc, rec
  • 17 May Introduced bindings and examples for primitives : ehy, epa
  • 18 May
    • Introduced primtive : ell1
    • Going through libged to figure out how the 'in' command works, still can't find it.
    • Reading through the code of the ell primitive in librt to understand how primitives behave at a ground level. There's a lot going on, might take me a while to figure everything out.
    • Sean recommended going through the various READMEs scattered across the code, will start on those too and log progress here.