[Bf-committers] GSoC 2011: Improving Retopology Tools

[Jonathan Williamson]

Hi Alice,

I am not a developer and so I cannot help with the documentation or API but
I did want to say that if you need any feedback during the project on the
tool behavior, workflow, etc then let me know. I have spent a significant
amount of time with the current retopology tools and tested out several
other applications retopology tools. As a modeler and the person that
suggested the Pen and Stroke tools as ideas I'm really excited to see you
interested in picking this one.

Let me know if I can help in any way.

Jonathan Williamson

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On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:11 PM, pete larabell <xgl.asyliax at gmail.com>wrote:

> Pen tool would be a great addition! I surely hope this proposal gets
> accepted!
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Alice Li <li.alicem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My name is Alice Li, I'm a 3rd year student majoring in Computer Science
> at
> > the University of Toronto and I'm interested in participating in GSoC
> 2011.
> > I have only recently discovered my passion for computer science (3 years
> > ago) and have not contributed anything to the open source community yet,
> but
> > I would really be grateful for the chance to start with GSoC.
> >
> > I have been using Blender for 3 months now and I hope to contribute to
> the
> > retopology tools, specifically:
> > - *Pen tool* to quickly draw polygons without the need to fill faces
> > manually
> > - *Paint Stroke tool* for adding faces based on intersecting strokes
> >
> > I chose these because I personally would find these tools very useful as
> I
> > found it a little tedious to manually create faces. As well, I have some
> > experience with interpolation and numerical integration that I have
> learned
> > in a numerical methods course. I have programmed in Python for 3 years
> now,
> > Java and C for 2 years now.
> >
> > I would appreciate it if any of you could give me some pointers as to
> which
> > areas of the documentation/api to look at to help me get started with my
> > proposal. I also want to get as much information as possible so I can
> create
> > a very reasonable timeline and to know if I may be overshooting or
> > undershooting with my proposal ideas.
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance,
> > Alice
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