Gearing up for the next meeting - 22/01/2011

[Neil Muller]

With the dawn of the new year, the next meeting is also approaching
fairly quickly.

So, any volunteers for speakers? Any topics people want to discuss?
Other suggestions?

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Neil Muller
drnlm...@gmail.com

I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool?

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Neil Muller <drnlm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With the dawn of the new year, the next meeting is also approaching
> fairly quickly.
>
> So, any volunteers for speakers? Any topics people want to discuss?
> Other suggestions?

I'm hesitant to respond to these e-mails; it's so easy to misinterpret
interest in a topic as volunteering to talk :)

Here are some projects I find interesting:

- GPU computing using PyOpenCL
- Workflow management / pipeline processing with, e.g., NiPype
- Cython (I assume this has been discussed before; otherwise I have
some material available)
- Enthought Traits
- Sphinx (cool project, but probably boring for a talk)

Not sure if these tools are of much relevance to people outside
computing, though.

Regards
Stéfan

[lazare jojo]

What if I propose to presente my BTech Project (STEREOSCOPIC 3D RENDERING USING BLENDER) where I wrote a Python script as a plug-in using Python as Blender's embedded programing language to create two extra cameras side by side in order to generate images in 3D?

 

Regards.

Nganpet.

2011/1/10 Stéfan van der Walt <sjvd...@gmail.com>

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[Graeme Glass]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:06 PM, lazare jojo <lazar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What if I propose to presente my BTech Project (STEREOSCOPIC 3D RENDERING
> USING BLENDER) where I wrote a Python script as a plug-in using Python as
> Blender's embedded programing language to create two extra cameras side by
> side in order to generate images in 3D?
>
> Regards.
> Nganpet.

+1 Sounds Good, I'd be interested

[Francois Loubser]

Me too

[Jeremy Thurgood]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 20:06, lazare jojo <lazar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What if I propose to presente my BTech Project (STEREOSCOPIC 3D RENDERING
> USING BLENDER) where I wrote a Python script as a plug-in using Python as
> Blender's embedded programing language to create two extra cameras side by
> side in order to generate images in 3D?

Fantastic idea.

--J

[Jeremy Thurgood]

2011/1/10 Stéfan van der Walt <sjvd...@gmail.com>:

> Here are some projects I find interesting:
>

>  - Sphinx (cool project, but probably boring for a talk)

If you're talking about the doc system rather than the text indexer
(which isn't very Python-related anyway), I've done a bunch of stuff
with it and it isn't really all that boring. I won't be able to
prepare anything for this coming meeting, but I can probably do it at
a future date.

--J

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Jeremy Thurgood <fir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're talking about the doc system rather than the text indexer
> (which isn't very Python-related anyway), I've done a bunch of stuff
> with it and it isn't really all that boring. I won't be able to
> prepare anything for this coming meeting, but I can probably do it at
> a future date.

We've abused Sphinx pretty heavily for things such as our department
website (http://dip.sun.ac.za), and it's also used to publish all the
NumPy docs (which have a custom format). The extension infrastructure
(such as used by Matplotlib to include plots) makes it very versatile,
indeed.

Cheers
Stéfan

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:06 PM, lazare jojo <lazar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> What if I propose to presente my BTech Project (STEREOSCOPIC 3D RENDERING
> USING BLENDER) where I wrote a Python script as a plug-in using Python as

I'd love to hear more about this.

Cheers
Stéfan

[lazare jojo]

Looks like it might interest most of us! put me then on the presenters list.

 

Its gonna be cool!!!

 

Nganpet

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Jeremy Thurgood <fir...@gmail.com> wrote:

[lazare jojo]

to  Stéfan van der Walt: Just make sure that you attend the next ctpug meeting! This project has taken the whole year 2010 (Feb to Dec) and fortunately enough, I was at CHPC (Centre for High Performance Computing) where I got access to the world class equipments that allowed me to get this software working. And remember the famous Avatar movie made in 3D that James Cameron invested more than 2 millions pound that can now be rendered just with my own software (BTech project).

I have completed my BTech degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering in December 2010 and actually waiting for the graduation that will take place in April 2011. In the mean time, I would like to apply this 3D Software in one of the organisations that might be interested; is there anyone who can help me out to be hired or to point me in the right direction? I am really looking for any opportunity in Electrical/Electronic/Computer/Software Engineering.

Looking forward for your assistance.
Nganpet.

2011/1/11 Stéfan van der Walt <sjvd...@gmail.com>

Stéfan

[Neil Muller]

On 11 January 2011 22:15, lazare jojo <lazar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like it might interest most of us! put me then on the presenters list.

Done. Thanks for the talk offer.