[Soc-2012-dev] welcome to the successful gsoc applicants

Sun Apr 29 08:33:10 CEST 2012

Hi!

* Have you every used subversion before?
Yes, but only to pull and merge changes, not to commit them.

* What OS do you use for development?
Linux Mint 12, and Windows XP sometimes

* What compiler do you use?
gcc and MSVC 2008, gave up on mingw :(

* Have you built the blender sources before?
yep

* Do you have an IRC nickname? (If I have it above, you can ignore)
kellpossible

* What is your p.b.o username? (see above)
lfrisken

* Have you been in contact with your mentor yet?
Yes, just today!

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Congratulations to the successful Summer of Code applicants!
>
> Here is the list of the accepted students in no particular order, as
> well as their project, and the individual who has agreed to help
> mentor them.  With your help we hope to make this the most successful
> GSoC yet.
>
> Project ----------------------------Student--------------------------------
> Mentor Name
> Tool development - Antonis Riakiotakis (Mentor: Sergey Sharybin)
> This project aims to add various tools to blender, related to
> texturing workflow. Tools include rake brushes for texture paint,
> separate alpha masks for texture paint, maintain image tool, isomap
> based unwrapping.
>
> FBX Importer - Alexander Gessler (Mentor: LetterRip)
> FBX is a powerful file format most commonly used to interchange data
> between Autodesk (tm) products. With its highly-developed pipeline it
> offers a very efficient way of dealing with scene data, unfortunately,
> being proprietary to Autodesk and by design accessible only by a SDK,
> support in the Open Source world is rare. My proposal is to implement
> a FBX importer for the Open Asset Import Library (assimp) and to embed
> assimp into Blender, which will ultimatively give Blender FBX import
> support.
>
> Developing of modeling Tools: Bevel, Bridge, Boolean. - Alexander
> Mokhov (Mentor: Howard Trickey)
> This project devoted to developing and improving of some modeling
> tools for Blender.
>
> Mesh smoothing based on curvature flow operator in a diffusion
> equation. - Alexander Pinzon Fernandez (Mentor: Daneil Genrich)
> Computer graphics objects reconstructed from real world contain
> undesirable noise. A Mesh smoothing removes undesirable noise while
> still preserving desirable geometric and shape of the original model.
> This project improving the mesh smoothing tools in blender, based on
> curvature flow operator in a diffusion equation.
>
> OpenGL Mobile Compatibility and Android Port - Alexandr Kuznetsov
> (Mentor: Ton Roosendaal)
> This project aims to made OpenGL slightly faster and compatible with
> OpenGL ES in order to port Blender Player to Android. This would
> include port of libs, ghost and build infrastructure. At the end
> Blender Games can be played on Android.
>
> New tesselator + "nice triangles" - Andrei Simionescu (Mentor: Campbell
> Barton)
> The idea is to build a new tessellation tool to replace the old
> scanfill one. The new tesselator should be fast, first of all, but
> also handle degeneracies, handle non-planer polygons, deal with the
> general case of polygons containing other polygons. Post-processing
> the tessellation/triangulation to make "nice" triangles/quads/etc. as
> a basis for an improved 'Beautify' tool.
>
> Viewport FX - Jason Wilkins (Mentor: Ton Roosendaal)
> Improve the performance, flexibility, and customization of the 3D view
> port.
>
> User Interface Tasklist
> Jorge Rodriguez (Mentor: Thomas Dinges)
> I will be working on a list of improvements to Blender’s operators and
> user interface. Some of these items come from the Blender Wiki and bug
> tracker and some come from my own observations. I will be focusing on
> usability and user interface.
>
> Precision Modeling Tools - Luke Frisken (Mentor: Martin Poirier)
> Add several new, and more flexible snapping and constraint modes to
> Blender. Eventually work towards incorporating these features into
> several more tools such as knife and loop cut. Addition of several new
> tools such as a extrude by rail, and a pen tool which makes extensive
> use of snapping/constraint modes.
>
> Smoke Simulator Improvements - MiikaH (Mentor: Daniel Genrich)
> The goal of this project is to improve Blender's smoke simulator with
> various new features to allow creation of even more realistic visual
> effects.
>
> BGE Converter Improvements - Mitchell Stokes (Mentor: Dalai Felinto)
> Various converter improvements such as saving out converted data to
> disk and allowing for asynchronous level loading.
>
> Multitouch Framework - Nicholas Rishel (Mentor: Mike Erwin)
> Extending recognition for multitouch input for SDL for the purpose of
> navigation, and a framework for future additions. As envisioned, the
> immediate result would serve as a compliment to a stylus. This would
> prepare Blender for the incoming Slate form factor machines (see
> Samsung Series 7 Slate and Asus Eee EP121), and potentially ease ports
> to Android touch devices.
>
> Improve COLLADA constrained animations and Morph animation support. -
> Phabtar (Mentor: LetterRip)
> This project will be to Improve the COLLADA im/export functions of
> constrained animations, including Baked IK animations and IK chain
> animations. Also the project will attempt to implement Morph
> constraint animations in COLLADA.
>
> Adding Subsurface Scattering to Cycles - Roger Wilco (Mentor: Brecht Van
> Lommel)
> Subsurface Scattering (SSS) describes how light penetrates a surface
> and exits at some other point. This makes the surface look translucent
> and is required to make things like skin or milk, which are naturally
> translucent, look realistic.
>
> Bullet Integration - Sergej Reich (Mentor: Aligorith)
> This project aims at continuing the work done by Joshua Leung for the
> Google Summer of Code 2010, integrating the bullet physics library
> natively into blender so users don't have to go through the clumsy
> process of running their simulations inside blenders game engine
>
> Adapting the Hive system for the Blender Game Engine - Spencer Alves
> (Mentor: Benoit Bolsee)
> This project aims to make a more accessible, efficient, and useful
> editor for logic systems in the Blender Game Engine by integrating the
> Hive systems project into Blender.
>
> As you can tell, I've subscribed you to a Summer of Code mailing list
> that we'll use through out the summer -- more about this list here:
>
> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-2012-dev
>
> Two other mailing lists that you are very strongly advised to
> subscribe to are the Blender development list,  and the Blender cvs
> list (sorry, you have to subscribe yourself):
>
> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-blender-cvs
>
> Commit log mails for Summer of Code go to the (poorly named)
> bf-blender-cvs mailing list mentioned above.
>
> If you don't have a p.b.o (projects.blender.org) account, please sign
> up for one and send your username to this list. If you already have an
> account, please send your username:
>
> http://projects.blender.org
>
> Another resource is irc: most of the mentors visit #blendercoders
> channel on irc.freenode.net.
>
> Here are some IRC handles of some of the SoC mentors and some other
> helpful developers:
>
> Ton Roosendaal - kaito
> Martin Poirier - theeth
> Brecht von Lommel - brecht
> Campbell Barton - ideasman_42
> Thomas Dinges - dingto
> Howard Trickey - howardt
> Joshua Leung - aligorith
> Lukas Toenne - lukast
> Daniel Genrich - gencher
> Andrea Weikert - elubie
> Benoit Bolsee - ben2610
> Dalai Felinto - dfelinto
> Tom Musgrove - letterrip
> William Reynish - billrey
> Peter Schlaile - schlaile
> Janne Karhu - jahka
> Nathan Letwory - jester[King,Dad]
> Matt Ebb - matt_e
> Joe Eagar - joeedh
> Ken Hughes - khpylon
> Geoff Bantle - Briggs
> Kent Mein - sirdude
> Erwin Coumans - erwin_bullet
> Chris Want - cwant
>
> We have weekly coding meetings in the #blendercoders channel on
> Sundays at 16:00 CEST (14:00 GMT, 08:00 MST, 07:00 PST -- if your time
> zone isn't listed, please try to figure out the meeting time).
>
> There are also development forums on 'w.b.o' (http://www.blender.org/)
> and Blender Artists
> (http://blenderartists.org/forum/).
>
> This would also be a good time to get some information from you, so if
> you have a moment sometime this week could you please send a mail to
> this list saying "Hi", and answering the following questions:
>
> * Have you every used subversion before?
> * What OS do you use for development?
> * What compiler do you use?
> * Have you built the blender sources before?
> * Do you have an IRC nickname? (If I have it above, you can ignore)
> * What is your p.b.o username? (see above)
> * Have you been in contact with your mentor yet?
> * Feel free to include any other info you think
> it might be useful to share.
>
> For those of you new to the blender code base, here are some links to
> help get you started
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Developers_Quickstart
>
> http://blenderartists.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?50-Beginning-Blender-Code-and-Development
>
> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?249031-VIDEOS-Blender-Sourcerers-Videos
>
> Again, congratulations to the students, and many thanks to those who
> have agreed to be mentors, and also thanks to those other interested
> parties who have helped evaluate proposals.
>
> More to come later ...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Musgrove
> LetterRip
>
> Also thanks to Chris Want whom I've liberally copy and pasted his
> welcome message from a previous year
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