[Bf-python] GSOC - Math Library Project

[Campbell Barton]

Hey Wendy, your initial submission seems good,
Since you have decided to go with one of the suggested ideas I can
only suggest you do a more detailed submission (with deliverables etc)
based on the template.
Also confirm your able to compile blender from source on your system,
the math lib work you'd be using mostly C.

- Cam

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Wendy Lollipop
<lollipopenator at gmail.com> wrote:
> Note: I've cross-posted this email to both the bf-committers list and the
> bf-python list, as I'm not sure which is the most relevant. Please let me
> know if I should only be posting to one or the other!
>
>
> Hi there :)
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> I am a mature-age student from Melbourne, Australia. I am currently studying
> the final year of an Advanced Diploma in Games Development (programming) at
> the Academy of Interactive Entertainment. My particular area of interest is
> 3d graphics programming - geometry, texturing, shading, and lighting.
>
>
>
> I am interested in the 'Math Library Overhaul' project described in the
> ideas page. I have reproduced the summary below for easy reference.
>
> Math Library
>  Make function names and argument order consistent.
>  Add missing functions and add operations commonly used in Blender into the
> API.
>  Profile/Optimize it, e.g. using sqrtf instead of sqrt, SSE/Altivec/..,
> while keeping things cross platform.
>  Document the functions in the math library.
>  Document Blender's matrix order convention, camera transformation, viewport
> transformations, armature bones transformations, quaternions and eulers, ..
> , for C and Python developers.
>  This project interests me since it seems that it would be very achievable
> within the time-frame for a developer new to Blender, whilst at the same
> time providing a useful service and a fantastic introduction to the Blender
> code base.
>
>  I have a strong math background from the Physics degree, and I also have,
> coincidentally, spent quite a bit of time in paid work doing something
> similar to what parts of this project entails - documenting existing code
> written by others.
>
>  This code was written in Python.  My job was to:
>  a) go through and document all modules, classes and methods, or to clean-up
> and make consistent any existing documentation
>  b) Use these docstrings to automatically generate cross-linked html output
> -  I used the epydoc documentation tool to do this part.
>
>  I have a lot of experience with Python. C++ I first learned a few years
> ago, but have not used regularly until the Games Programming course this
> year.
>
> I was wondering whether anyone has  'put up their hand' for this project
> yet, as I think it would likely fit quite well with my back-ground. If
> no-one else has asked for it, I would like to discuss it a little further
> via email and then perhaps submit a proposal for GSOC.
>
>
>
>
> Here is  little more background about myself:
>
>
> I've been interested in open-source software since about 1997, when a friend
> helped me to get my first installation of slackware linux running :)
>
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> Currently, when not studying or working,  I do programming work for an
> open-source project at computerbank victoria ( a community organisation in
> my local area.)
>
>  The programming language in which I have the most experience is Python ,
> not C++, but I am rapidly becoming acquainted with C++ as the diploma-course
> is entirely based in it! The first language I ever learned was 'Microbee
> Basic' sometime in the eighties. The first language I learned 'properly' was
> Fortran, as part of a computational physics subject at university.
>
> The area I specialized in for the honors part of my physics degree was
> optics. I love applying this knowledge to graphics programming where
> possible. I will be doing a research project about spherical harmonic
> lighting as part of the diploma course this year.
>
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Wendy Langer
>
> --
> "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his
> tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
> this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
> receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." (Albert
> Einstein)
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