GSoC 2018 With BRL-CAD

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

Accepted Projects

Check command for Overlap tool

• Implementing the check command in C and its GUI in Tcl/Tk
• Student: Saran Narayan
• Abstract
• Project Plan
• Dev Log
• Report

Python Geometry

• Extend the current project by building python bindings for BRLCAD Geometry
• Student: Jaipal Singh Goud
• Abstract
• Project Plan
• Dev Log

Appleseed renderer integration

• Integrating Appleseed renderer into BRL-CAD
• Student: [Denis Pavlov] (../user/DenisPavlov.md)
• Abstract
• [Project Plan] (../user/DenisPavlov/GSoC18/Project.md)
• Dev Log

LibreCAD 3 OpenGL rendering

• Replace our current rendering engine Cairo with pure OpenGL rendering
• Student: Parth Partani
• Abstract
• Project Plan
• Dev Log

Slic3r Face based rotation

• Implement a way for users to select a face and choose it to be the face that connects to the plate
• Student: Benjamin Landers
• Abstract
• Project Plan
• Dev Log

Improving raytracing performance

• Speed up raytracing by improving the data structures used
• Student: Cezar
• Abstract
• Project Plan & Dev Log

OpenCL GPGPU Raytracing

• Convert ray-object intersection function of primitives from C to OpenCL
• Student: Sreyansh Jain
• Abstract
• Project Plan
• Dev Log

MGED search -exec option

• Add an -exec option to the search MGED command.
• Student: Peter Pronai
• Abstract
• Project Plan
• Devlog

FreeCAD Packaging & Configuration Management

• Use systems engineering approach to improve dependency & release process pains
• Student: Kurt Kremitzki
• Abstract
• [https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28478| Proposal & Development Log]