User:Phoenix/GSoc2012/Reports

Log

Community Bonding

• May 2
  • Downloaded the source code of the latest revision from svn checkout and got more familiar with subversion.
  • Compiled and built the source both in Ubuntu and Windows (Visual Studio 2010) successfully.
• May 13
  • Found and fixed a small bug in eto_brep (the rotation axis of eto is wrong), and submitted a patch on sourceforge.net.
• May 15
  • Modified the eto_brep patch with the test case provided by Cliff.
• May 16
  • Continued working on the conversion of eto.
  • Tested the brep conversion of hyp, but found the raytrace result of implicit CSG hyp quite strange.
• May 17
  • The raytrace of implicit hyp is wrong when H is not perpendicular to A.
  • Fixed the conversion to brep of hyp (havn't commited yet).

Original development timeline

• - May 21 (~4 weeks)
  • Study materials on NURBS/BREP etc
  • Read the codes in librt/primitives
  • Get familiar to OpenNURBS
  • Fix some bugs and make patches
  • Implement a method for convenient testing (finished)

• May 21 - June 10 (~3 weeks)
  • Modify implemented conversions if not finished
    • pipe
    • sph, ell, tor, hyp
    • eto, extrude, revolve, etc.

• June 11 - June 18 (~1 week)
  • Final examination week in our school

• June 19 - July 1 (~2 weeks)
  • Still work on existing conversions
  • Work on non-origin primitives
    • Deduce transformation matrices
    • Apply the transformation
    • Test the results and write documents

• July 1 - July 29 (~4 weeks)
  • Add new conversions to missing primitives
    • Test whether it works well
    • Write clear documents
    • From easy ones to hard ones
  • July 1 - July 8 (1 week)
    • rec
    • ars
    • half
    • ell1
  • July 8 - July 15 (1 week)
    • metaball
    • pnts
    • part
    • grip
  • July 15 - July 22 (1 week)
    • superell
    • cline
  • July 22 - July 29 (1 week)
    • hf
    • other missing primitives

• July 29 - August 13 (~2 week)
  • Write a convert for whole
    • Write a function to walk the tree
    • Add a command to MGED
    • Discussions and documents
  • Test the work and fix bugs

• August 13 - August 20 (~1 week)
  • Pencil down data
    • Improve documentation
    • Evaluations

• Post-GSoc
  • Further involvement with BRL-CAD :)