Google Summer of Code/2020

GSoC 2020 With BRL-CAD

BRL-CAD was accepted as an umbrella mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code!

Accepted Projects

OpenCL GPGPU Raytracing

• This project is to introduce a GPGPU pipeline into BRL-CAD using OpenCL for existing primitives and parallelize them for faster computation.
• Org: BRL-CAD
• Student: Rishabh Suthar
• Abstract
• Project Plan
• Dev Log

OpenScad GUI & Text Editor’s Interactivity Enhancements

• The goal of this project will be to add different GUI & Text Editor Enhancements like User-Defined Shortcut Configuration, jump to Error Location from Console Box, a new ‘Error Log’ dockable widget and allowing the users to scroll the values/numbers via mouse.
• Org: OpenSCAD
• Student: Hrishabh Sharma
• Abstract
• Project Plan
• Dev Log

New BRL-CAD Application

• MGED and Archer have been created a long time ago with the technology available at that time. The project aims to create a new application to encapsulate the tools and functions of BRL-CAD.
• Org: BRL-CAD
• Student: Sadeep Weerasinghe
• Dev Log

LibreCAD 3 GUI Revamp

• Revamp of the GUI of LibreCAD 3 by shifting the GUI window management from Lua to C++ and addition of a Lua GUI API.
• Org: LibreCAD
• Student: Akhil J Nair
• Abstract
• Project Plan
• Dev Log