GSoC 2015 With BRL-CAD

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

We accepted 12 students that prepared quality proposals and demonstrated commitment, with details below for those students that were successful. As an umbrella org, several students were selected for associated orgs LibreCAD, STEPcode, and OpenSCAD.

Accepted Projects

GPU Accelerated Ray Trace Rendering for BRL-CAD

• OpenCL-based accelerated ray trace rendering
• Student: Vasco Costa
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

Online Geometry Viewer (OGV) : Front-End

• Geometry Model Viewer on Web : Front-End Development
• Student: Deepak Kumar Sharma
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Front-End : Production Ready Plan
• Development Logs

Online Geometry Viewer (OGV): Back-end

• Geometry Model Viewer on Web: Back-end Development
• Student: Shubham Chauhan
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Production Ready Plan
• Development Logs

Synchronize Wiki with Docbook

• merge the all docs with website and provide the editing option to user.
• Student: Hitesh Sofat
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

Povray export

• Converting BRL-CAD geometry into POV-Ray format
• Student: Gurwinder Singh
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

OpenSCAD Importer

• Converting OpenSCAD geometry into BRL-CAD format
• Student: Andrei Ilinca
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

Object-Oriented C++ Geometry API

• Adding Volume, Centroid and Surface Area functions for primitives (Enhancing GE)
• Student : Kalpit Thakkar
• Mentor : Daniel Roßberg (d_rossberg)
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

STEP Geometry Viewer

• A stand-alone STEP file viewer with great functionalities.
• Student : Milinda Fernando
• Mentor : Charlie Stirk
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

NMG / BoT Editing

• Command-line interface for NMG / BoT editing.
• Student : Brad Hollister
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

X3D Importer

• A converter to convert from X3D file format to BRL-CAD format
• Student: Konrad Djimeli
• Abstract
• Project Proposal
• Development Logs

ScadLexer for OpenSCAD

• Lexer for QScintilla Editor.
• Student: Shaina Sabarwal
• Abstract
• Proposal
• Development Logs