[Bf-committers] GSoC 2011: Improving Retopology Tools

[Tom M]

Alice here is the latest version of the surface sketch script that I
mentioned above.

https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/trunk/py/scripts/addons/mesh_bsurfaces.py

LetterRip

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, 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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