[brlcad-devel] GSoC Project Idea

[Ameya Panse]

Hi,
I am writing this email to introduce myself as a prospective GSoC student
with BRLCAD. I am currently in final year of my undergraduate studies at
India's leading college IIT Madras.

I must confess that I have not contributed in OpenSource but as they say it
is never too late to start. I am determined to spend my summer working with
an OpenSrc organisation and I believe that BRLCAD will provide me this
opportunity.

I have downloaded the BRLCAD source code and have built it from source. I
scanned through various projects of previous years.

I would like to work on the following idea

Heterogeneous paralleization's of LibICV using OpenMP.

LibICV is BRLCAD's image processing library. The objective of this project
would be to improve the performance of LibICV by taking parallelizing the
code. I would also be looking at possible functionalities that coudl be
added to this library.

I am also open to work on any other project suggestions.

Thanks and Regards,

Ameya Panse,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai.

[Daniel Roßberg]

Hi Ameya,

Post by Ameya Panse
Hi,
I am writing this email to introduce myself as a prospective GSoC student
with BRLCAD. I am currently in final year of my undergraduate studies at
India's leading college IIT Madras.

Welcome!

Post by Ameya Panse
I must confess that I have not contributed in OpenSource but as they say it
is never too late to start. I am determined to spend my summer working with
an OpenSrc organisation and I believe that BRLCAD will provide me this
opportunity.

GSoC students are usually new in open source development. One
intention of GSoC is to involve more people there.

Post by Ameya Panse
I have downloaded the BRLCAD source code and have built it from source. I
scanned through various projects of previous years.

Looks like you are on the right way :) You should play around with
the different BRL-CAD programs too. For example, you could do the
tutorial: http://brlcad.org/w/images/c/cf/Introduction_to_MGED.pdf

Post by Ameya Panse
I would like to work on the following idea
Heterogeneous paralleization's of LibICV using OpenMP.
LibICV is BRLCAD's image processing library. The objective of this project
would be to improve the performance of LibICV by taking parallelizing the
code. I would also be looking at possible functionalities that coudl be
added to this library.

Sounds interesting. Keep us up-to-date about your plan.


Regards,
Daniel