Google Summer of Code/2014

GSoC 2014 With BRL-CAD

BRL-CAD was accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code! We accepted as many students as we had mentors and quality student proposals, the latter being the deciding factor this year. We accepted 11 students, of which 10 were successful in their projects. As an umbrella org, 3 of those students worked on projects for STEPcode, LibreCAD, and OpenSCAD.

Accepted Projects

Benchmark Performance Database

• Objective : Build a database and visualization website for the BRL-CAD Benchmarks.
• Student : Ankesh Anand
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Embedding a framebuffer window

• Objective : Creating a new cross platform Qt framebuffer and embedding a framebuffer window in the actual Qt display manager.
• Student : Bogolin Simion Vlad
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Online Geometry Viewer

• Objective : Port existing Online Geometry Viewer to node.js, and improve it.
• Student : Inderpreet Singh
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

STEP Libraries: Improving Thread Safety and Performance

• Objective : Modify the existing STEP Libraries to make them thread safe. Implement multithreading (atleast) in lazyloading. Identify exisitig bottlenecks and improve the performance of the serial code.
• Student : Pulkit Mittal
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Creating a Geometry Conversion Library

• Objective: TBD
• Student: Henry Curtis
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Project Description

Mesh Library Cleanup

• Objective: Clean, validate and verify relevant source code about NMG, and then add the missing Euler Operation to it.
• Student: Zhao Anqing
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

UI Brushup of OpenSCAD

• Objective : To improve the UI of OpenSCAD by removing existing bugs and adding new features.
• Student : Shaina Sabarwal
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

Python Geometry

• Objective : To write Python Bindings for BRL-CAD Geometry
• Student : Raj K. Reddy
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Google-Melange

Materials Database Project

• Objective : To make a web application where users can easily store / retrieve the properties or traits of materials in a methodical manner.
• Student : Albert
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

Object-oriented C++ Geometry API

• Objective : Implement a number of selected primitives in an OOP manner, according to the rt_*_internal structure
• Student : Andrei Popescu
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

LibreCAD Kernel

• Objective : To create a 2D Kernel of LibreCAD's version 3.
• Student : Gaganjyot
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs
• Proposal on Google-Melange

Additional Information

Students discussed and collaborated with BRL-CAD developers on formulating projects with most selecting from a detailed list of project suggestions from our Project Ideas page. Student applications for GSoC will be accepted at http://google-melange.com from March 10 through March 21.