Project Details

Name: Gurwinder Singh Bains

IRC Name: Gurwinder

e-mail: gswithbains@gmail.com

Community Bonding Period work

  • Working on Glade and follow some tutorial to get my hand on it.
  • Understand some primitives and find a way to export them.
  • Start studying about POV-Ray macros.

Coding Period

Week 1( Export Part )

25 May

  • Understand particale and take reference from other converters

I understood how the coordinates of vertices of particale are stored. Now I'm working on exporting the vertices and then move on to export into POV-Ray format.

26 May

  • Pushed one commit to github.
  • Export coordinates of Particale successfully.

My ubuntu got crashed so I have to reinstall it. I will be compiling BRL-CAD after that I am on track again.

27 May

  • Export particale but requires to fix errors.

Today I was busy in my exam. But in evening I got time to export particale.

28 May

  • Done exporting of Particale primitive.
  • Testing it with POV-Ray.

I am now working on linuxcnc. Starts from backslash task for it.

29 May

  • Working on linuxCNC. Search related to backslash.
  • Taking other softwares as refrence.

30 May

  • Fix some error in POV-Ray export.
  • Working on LinuxCNC, taking help from Youtube videos. Discuss with Morley

about backslash.

31 May

  • Just search about other possible primitives that are not in proposal.

Part primitive in POV-Ray

Here is the screen shoot of how part looks after conversion in POV-Ray

Week 2( Export ell )

1 June

  • Found where the coordinates are stored.
  • Export those coordinates simply.
  • Working on other possible primitives( not in proposal ).

2 June

  • Compare and test the ellipse formed by BRL-CAD and POV-Ray.
  • Found some more primitives that I can export.

3 June

  • Export ellipse.
  • Working on rotation of ellipse.

4 June

  • Was Busy in traveling.
  • Just looked into some ways to rotate ellipse.

5 June

  • Export ell successfully

6 June

  • Start linuxcnc
  • Cloning and Compiling on my new system

7 June

  • Compile Linuxcnc successfully
  • Know how to use it.

Ell primitive in POV-Ray

Here is the screen shoot of how ell looks after conversion in POV-Ray

Week 3( Export arb8 )

8 June

  • Start working with arb8
  • Export coordinates of arb8

9 June

  • Export arb8
  • Export tgc
  • Working on linuxcnc

10 June

  • Working on Linuxcnc Help pages.

11 June

  • Was at busy at my college.

12 June

  • Working on linuxcnc stepconf.

13 June

  • Working on help button.

14 June

  • Clean up g-pov code

Arb8 primitive in POV-Ray

Here is the screen shoot of how arb8 looks after conversion in POV-Ray

Week 4( Export tgc )

15 June

  • Clean up tgc code
  • Remove error from exporting into POV-Ray
  • Change some settings of Help button of Linuxcnc

16 June

  • Do code clean up
  • Submit my patch

17 June

  • Rebuild BRL-CAD on my system
  • Working on patch

18 June

  • Remove some errors
  • Edit files to compile g-pov correctly

19 June

  • Was busy at college for some paper work

20 June

  • Prepare for Patch

21 June

  • Working on writing output into file

Tgc primitive in POV-Ray

Here is the screen shoot of how tgc looks after conversion in POV-Ray

Week 5

22 June

  • Writing the code according to coding standard

23 June

  • Remove some errors and working on output file option.

24 June

  • Setting file for commit
  • Push code on Git repository successfully

25 June

  • Do some tutorial on Glade
  • Checking the help pages for stepconf
  • Trying to solve segmentation error

26 June

  • Communicate with my mentor of BRLCAD.
  • Communicate with Linuxcnc member

Pre-midterm Evaluation Summary

I have started my GSOC with part primitive. Its easy for me to export coordinates of part. Then I export part into POV-Ray by using Round_Cone2 object. In next week it started exporting Ell. I found it difficult as I was not able to rotate ellipse but in last I export ell into POV-Ray by using spheroid object. In week third, I was working on arb8. Its harder for me to export. So I discussed it with POV-Ray community and finally I wrote a macro and I was able to export arb8 successfully. In 4th week, I export tgc successfully. In last week, I clean up code and submit POV-Ray converter as a patch. I was also working on Linuxcnc in these pre-midterm days. I wrote stepconf help pages that will be used while user click on help button of stepconf of linuxcnc.

Mid Term Evaluation Week

27 June

  • Do nothing

28 June

  • Just search about python for linuxcnc

29 June

  • Started python from youtube tutorials.
  • Set Log of pre-mid term time period.

30 June

  • Do first chapter: Intro of Python.
  • Start following the book

1 July

2 July - 3 July

6 July

7 July - 8 July

  • Done upto 30 excersises and do some examples.
  • Busy in admission work.

8 July - 9 July

  • Do some excersises on python.
  • Busy in admission paper completition.

13 July

  • Completed basics of python.
  • Done 43 excerssises on python

14 July

  • Test Glade with python.
  • Make my older changer in work
  • Prepare for exam.

15 July

  • Discuss on next work with my mentor
  • Search about rhc and rpc

16 July

  • Successfully export rhc coordinates
  • Working on rhc to export it in POV-Ray

17 July

  • Making a macro for rhc my using equations in POV-Ray
  • Successfully export coordinates of rpc, epa, ehy

20 July

  • Working on rhc and rpc export.
  • Make half macro in working condition of elliptical torus.

21 July

  • Elliptical torus is working.
  • Working on its major and minor axis of its ellipse.

22 July - 23 July

  • Busy at college, submit papers.
  • Work on torus's minor and major axis.
  • Working on rhc and rpc.

25 July - 27 July

  • Communitcation with my mentor.
  • Write down primitives on BRL-CAD wiki page Povray.

28 July

  • Export coordinates of Half.
  • Export Half successfully.
  • Working on pipe.

29 July - 31 July

  • Working on PIPE primitive.
  • Pipe is formed in povray but not with bend radius.
  • Pipe is formed difference of cones.

3 Aug - 4 Aug

  • Working on ARBN.
  • Exported it successfully

5 Aug

  • Working on EHY and EPA.
  • Use quadratic equations of POV-Ray for it.

6 Aug

  • Exported EPA and EHY successfully.

7 Aug - 10 Aug

  • Successfully exported BOT.
  • Working on RPC, RHC, extrud and sketch.

9 Aug - 12 Aug

  • Feeling sick.
  • RPC is working well, going to export.

13 Aug - 16 Aug

  • Export RPC and RHC.
  • Export data of Extrude.
  • Test mear about half of primitives.
  • Due to bad health not able to do much. Going to test all the remaining primitives.

17 Aug

  • Soft Pencil Down
  • Start performing test on different primitives.

18 Aug - 21 Aug

  • Modify BoT primitives.
  • Test BoT primitive and its working well.
  • Conversation with Mentor on Documentation.
  • Start documentation.

I have exported many other peimitives into POV-Ray. After mid term evaluation I discussed with my mentor about linuxCNC project. Due to lack of knowledge about linuxcnc machines and motivation we decided to move with POV-Ray export project. So I started exporting primitives into POV-Ray. I was feeling difficult to choose between primitive so I discussed it with my mentor. He gave me a list by which I was able to work in order. I have exported many primitives as listed below RHC, RPC, EPA, EHY, ARBN, Half, ELL1, ELLg. One of these primitive is BoT which required some modification. I was in difficulty in exporting it but after spending time on it I was able to export it successfully and now its working correctly. I also exported HRT primitive in POV-Ray but its not similar to heart. But I'm very thankful to my mentor who gave me a chance to increase my skills and motivation to do work with proper methods as I never expected that I will able to export these given primitives in proposal opn time but thanks to mentor and God who motivate me to work and I was able to export more primitives along with those given in proposal.