User:Bhinesley/gsoc2012
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Project ideas
I will most likely have adequate time to put together two proposals this year. I'm currently reviewing (not really in order):
- STEP Viewer
- Sounds really interesting, but I'll have to look into whether my skills are up to par.
- Add -exec option to 'search'
- This involves obtaining an array of available commands, which is currently impossible (well, doing it the right way). Search isn't the only feature with a use for such a thing.
- General Tree Walker
- I've had some experience working with the CSG tree. This would give me the opportunity to focus on analyzing the requirements and coming up with a good design. This contrasts with last year, where I spent a significant amount of time mid-coding just trying understand how things work.
- Add a volume, surface area, centroid, and medial axis routine to all primitives
- from Sean's ideas page
- probably not that difficult to start implementing
- would have to learn the math
- might not be long enough for GSoC, and need supplemental work
- Code Reduction
- This has the potential to be broad, touching many areas of the project. I'm interested because I'd like to know more about how the software works as a whole, and I feel like I didn't do enough of that last year.
