[Bf-committers] blender development question

[Robert]

Hello Angelo,
I use Python. I build blender, but do not modify source yet.
The building blender guide is 
here:https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender
For a short summary, you will download from git, download from svn, use 
CMAKE to configure your build.
After CMAKE outputs files, run those with gcc or XCode, or similar to 
make it happen.

 From what I guess, I could be wrong, but It seems like quite a task 
only showing the 3d view and video editor. doable, but lengthy You might 
save that for the end goal, but focus on building your python module for 
the medical 3d model part as the main segment.


On 3/7/18 8:56 AM, Angelo Rosace wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a university student from Italy. I am currently attending my third and
> last year in the bachelor of computer science and engineering.
> I am starting to work on my thesis, and that is why I am writing you. My
> thesis would consist in developing a software which handles a 3D
> environment and that provides tools for interacting with it. The aim of the
> project is to develop a parametric software to be used for medical
> purposes, the main task of the program would be importing 3D scans of limbs
> and adapting a splint (special tipe of cast) to the 3D object via an
> algorithm that I will develop in python. The generated splint is then going
> to be 3D-printed. Since I already used blender for some other projects I
> was thinking about trying to develop my own version of blender without some
> feature such as the one connected to video editing and with features aimed
> only to the task that I previously explained. I thought about blender since
> it is open source.
> And now comes my question: I am trying to go through the code in order to
> understand how it works, but it is quite overwealming. So i wanted to ask
> if you could provide me with some information reguarding the architecture
> of the source code and how the various files are interacting together.
> I also wanted to ask if to realize such a project would be possible in your
> opinion.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Angelo Rosace
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