User:Phoenix/GSoc2013/Reports

Log

Community bonding

• May 28
  • Create the log page
  • Things have done:
    • Test program for SSI and a test geometry file
    • Some improvement with SSI and API design
• June 3
  • As I will have my final exams during the first week that coding begins, so I'd like to move some work ahead.
  • Begin to add P/P, P/C and P/S support. Implement ON_PX_EVENT for reporting the intersections.
  • TODO: Implement P/C, P/S and ON_PX_EVENT::IsValid().
• June 4
  • Eliminate max_dis in the brep command for SSI.
  • Extended the brep command to handle P/P, P/C, P/S, C/C and C/S.
  • Modified the wiki page of the brep command.
  • Fix the format of ON_PX_EVENT::Dump(). (Add "\n")
• June 7
  • Try to add PS support using get_closest_point().
  • Test the functionality of the PS function - it seems that there's a problem when try (0,0,5) on a sphere of radius 5 and centered at the origin (it should be an intersect, but get_closest_point() returns (0,0,-5) resulting in no intersections).
• June 12
  • Calculate point-curve intersection using sub-division.
  • Do some simple testing on PCI. It works.

Week 1

• June 17
  • Coding period begins!
  • Put the tolerance into consideration in the IsPointIn() test in PCI.
  • Write a test program on sphere to test P/P, P/C and P/S.
    • It seems that get_closest_point() is not always robust. :( Maybe it's not a good choice for P/S.
• June 18
  • Use macros to represent default tolerance and change it to 0.001 (the same as the default tolerance of curve/curve, curve/surface, surface/surface defined by openNURBS)
  • Consider the input u_domain and v_domain for the result of point-surface intersection.
• June 19
  • Busy with the course projects and preparing a final exam. Didn't have much time for BRL-CAD.
• June 20
  • Found the problem causing get_closest_point() to fail
    • get_closest_point() sometimes give us the 'farthest' point.
    • => getClosestPointEstimate() didn't work.
    • => The surface tree are not built correctly.
    • => It seems that we inappropriately prepTrims when m_removeTrimmed is false, causing get_closest_point() to fail. Someone who wrote this code needs to check whether this change is correct.
  • Use a smaller depth for PSI to improve performance.
• June 21
  • Added Newton-Raphson iteration in PCI to improve accuracy (using the one from subdivision and linear approximation as a starting point)
    • After test, it can work with tolerance set to ON_ZERO_TOLERANCE!

Original development timeline

• - June 17 (~4 weeks)
  • Study the papers on this topic
  • Discuss with other developers
  • Some code clean up in the current SSI routine
  • Write a test program to test SSI
• June 17 - June 23 (1 week)
  • Lower dimension intersections
    • P/P, P/C, P/S
    • With the support of openNURBS
  • Tests and documentations
• June 24 - July 7 (2 weeks)
  • Intersections regarding curves
    • C/C, C/S
    • Subdivision - curve trees, surface trees
  • Tests and documentations
• July 7 - Aug. 4 (4 weeks)
  • TDD on SSI
    • Test the SSI
    • Find the problems
    • Fix the bugs
    • Find more bugs and fix them
    • Degenerated cases
  • Try to get the code faster
    • Fit the curve to a lower order if possible
  • Documentations
    • Comment in code
    • Write some extra document on SSI (algorithms, problems, TODOs...)
  • Mid-term evaluation in July 29 - Aug. 2
• Aug. 5 - Aug. 18 (2 weeks)
  • Finish the surface partitioning
    • Polygon partitioning
    • Curve-curve intersection
  • Tests
    • Trims may intersect
• Aug. 19 - Aug. 25 (1 week)
  • Add connectivity graph support
    • Generate connectivity graphs for objects
    • Design proper data structures for the graph
• Aug. 26 - Sept. 1 (1 week)
  • Inside-outside tests
    • Curve-surface intersection
    • BFS of the graph to determine inside/outside
• Sept. 2 - Sept. 8 (1 week)
  • Generate valid ON_Brep objects
    • Read code in IsValid() functions
    • Add elements (trim, edge, etc.)
    • Try to pass the validation
  • Extend the brep command in MGED
• Sept. 9 - Sept. 15
  • Robustness Issues
    • Deal with the degenerated cases
    • All 3 steps should be modified
  • Tests
    • Fix bugs
    • Improve performance
• Sept. 16 - Sept. 22 (1 week)
  • Pencils down
    • Code clean up
    • Documentation (wiki pages)
• Sept. 23 - Sept. 27 (1 week)
  • Final evaluation
  • Submit code to Google