[Soc-2012-dev] Weekly progress report #4 - Sushi Branch - New tesselator

[Howard Trickey]

Andrei,

I wrote the Wings3D tesselator, though I'm not positive that the code
hasn't changed since I wrote it.  I have C++ and Python versions of it if
you would prefer not to have to learn Erlang.

- Howard

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Andrei Simionescu
<ansimionescu at gmail.com>wrote:

> First of all, this week I didn't write much code (failed to finish [*2*, #4]
> - see "Tasks").
> As my project involves porting Wings3D's tesselator to Blender [1], this
> week I learned about BMesh's and Blender's architecture, Erlang language,
> and Wings3D. You can check out my notes on those subjects [2]. I'm
> currently trying to understand their tesselator [*4*, #4] and make my
> code snippets [*2*, #4] work properly.
> For the next week I plan to expand my notes [*0**, #5], wrap up the
> functionality of wings_tesselation [*1*, #5], and write my first patches [
> *1.1*, *2*, #5].
>
> You can always be up to date with what I'm doing by checking my wiki page,
> I try to update it frequently.
>
> Trivia: From skimming through ba.org posts I understood that artists (i)
> like Wings3D's tesselator better and (ii) they'd like a better way to turn
> ngons to quads.
>
> Tasks for this week (#4):
> *1)* read BMesh, Blender doc
> *2)* (not finished) coding tasks [3]
> *3)* familiarize with Erlang
> *4)* familiarize with Wings 3D tessellation
>
> Tasks for the next week (#5):
> *0*)* expand notes [2]
> *1)* finish my notes about what wings_tesselation [4] does (and how)
> *1.1)* start implementing the new scanfill based on that
> *2)* make a prototype for tri/quad-angulation [*2*, week 4]
> *2.1*)* start coding the recursive optimal-ngon-partitioning (ngon poke
> tool - 3rd method, in my proposal [1])
>
> *Reference:*
> *[1] My GSOC project specs
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ansimionescu/gsoc2012/specs*
> *[2] My dev notes about Blender and Wings3D
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Ansimionescu#Notes*
> *[3] Induction coding tasks http://pastebin.com/7mAxx8fm*
> [4] wings_tesselation.erl http://pastebin.com/rU7B4Zdp
>
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