FORCETOC

Monday, May 4, 2015

  • considered some alternate plans for proposal
  • fixed out-of-source builds issue for Eclipse IDE (need to build in sibling directory instead of sub-directory)
  • after complete reinstall of Ubuntu / upgrade, system packages installed
  • contacted GSoC mentor about weekly mtgs
  • created place-holder pages on BRL-CAD wiki
  • tested updating local repo copy and rebuild of BRL-CAD, etc.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

  • further consideration of proposal updates
  • editing / formatting of dissertation
  • reviewed research paper for Visweek
  • worked out weekly interactive mtg schedule with mentor (starseeker) on IRC

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

  • formatting / editing dissertation for June 11th defense

Thursday, May 7, 2015

  • formatting / editing dissertation
  • defense may be moved a week earlier to 6/1-6/5

Friday, May 8, 2015

  • sick day - caught flu of some kind
  • handled administrative email stuff
  • weekend TODO: update proposal per google-melange requests

Saturday, May 9, 2015

  • multi-day flu

Sunday, May 10, 2015

  • multi-day flu

Monday, May 11, 2015

  • still sick
  • edits to dissertation
  • re-read parts of NMG paper
  • made sure svn update works with Eclipse
  • will update proposal over the next few days after more recovery from illness

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

  • recovering from viral sinus infection, prognosis: \~1 week
  • reading documents in downtime
  • scheduling with committee

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

  • recovering from viral sinus infection, prognosis: \~1 week
  • reading documents in downtime

Thursday, May 14, 2015

  • ditto

Friday, May 15, 2015

  • ditto

Saturday, May 16, 2015

  • ditto

Sunday, May 17, 2015

  • ditto

Monday, May 18, 2015

  • recovered mostly from flu
  • adding needed changes to dissertation for defense on June 3rd
  • plan to update proposal later tomorrow / Wednesday

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

  • dissertation edits / mtgs with visiting prof.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

  • dissertation edits / mtgs with visiting prof.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

  • read thru Volume II - Intro to MGED
  • determined how to convert primitives to nmg via facetize command
  • investigated relevant source: librt/primitives/nmg/*; nmg_mk.c, nmg.c, etc.
  • considering command design for direct edits of nmg data structure (to be added to proposal)
  • todo: need to investigate how to add commands for mged / archer

Friday, May 22, 2015

  • received info from starseeker as to how to implement new command line functions
  • updated proposal on google-melange
  • will post updated prop on BRL-CAD Wiki and make a note in IRC

Saturday, May 23, 2015

  • covered some maths, i.e. orthogonal function expansions (not necessarily relevant to current work)

Sunday, May 24, 2015

  • covered some maths, i.e. orthogonal function expansions (not necessarily relevant to current work)

Monday, May 25, 2015: GSoC 2015 coding period starts

  • 8 hours preparing slides for dissertation defense (with another day of work likely)
  • perused NMG paper entitled, "Manifold Boundary Representation for Solid Modelling" by Gueorguieva, et al.
  • todo: investigate patch for command addition (tomorrow)
  • todo: work out how to manage local version control for brl-cad trunk

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

  • 8+ hours on dissertation + slides edits (more revisions requested by advisor)
  • todo: command-line addition as stated (likely to be done late-thurs / fri / sat)

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

  • created github repo for local change revisions @ https://github.com/behollis/brlcad-svn-rev65072-gsoc2015 (temp until commit access with brlcad svn)
  • will periodically integrate trunk revisions to git repo "branch"
  • looking at revisions: The Mged simulate command is implemented here(as a libged function); The Mged simulate command is implemented here(as a libged function)
  • todo: look at gci patch "mesh" command
  • updating dissertation (4hrs+); need this done by evening tomorrow
  • need dissertation slides by monday (applied \~1.5hrs)

Thursday, May 28, 2015

  • caught in an edit cycle with dissertation; \~8+ hours of edits

Friday, May 29, 2015

  • started adding libged command stubs in src/libged for nmg construction routines
  • putting all common types of commands in single file for now
  • may be better to have individual files for each with new subdir
  • following examples for libged/nmg_simplify.c, libged/facetize.c, etc.
  • missed 10AM PDT mtg in IRC with starseeker. will try to mtg sat / sun instead.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

  • working on dissertation edits / slides

Sunday, May 31, 2015

  • working on dissertation edits / slides