GSoC 2017

[Александр Щербаков]

Hello! My name is Alexandr Shcherbakov. I am from Russia. Now I am studying at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Graphics and Media Lab. I am interested in computer graphics, parallel computations and game development. I am currently working on Global Illumination in real-time rendering. I am developming optimization for radiosity method.

I did not contribute to open-source yet. 

In my study I created a simple ray-tracer for rendering an accretion disk around a black hole. Also I wrote some simple demos on OpenGL.

I found appleseed in organization list on GSoC site.

I am proficient with C/C++ (with STL) and Python. Also, I have some experience with using Java, C# and JavaScript. For GPGPU and rendering I using OpenGL and OpenCL. Now I am learning CUDA.

I used Git and GitHub in my work and studying. I worked in Yandex and My.com and followed their coding guidelines. They had realy big repositories with large amount of code. My colleagues reviewed my code before every merge in master. I reviewed analysts' code in Yandex, and students' code.

I am interested in the following projects:

1. Project 1: Resumable renders
   
2. Project 2: IES light profiles
3. Project 5: Adaptive image plane sampling
4. Project 8: Switch to Embree
5. Project 14: Python scripting

[Esteban Tovagliari]

Hello Alexandr!

Thanks for getting in touch with us!

I guess you already saw our how to apply document. If not, it's here:

https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/wiki/How-to-Apply

I sent you a slack invitation. If you join, you can meet the rest of the team, 

ask questions and any other thing you might need.

Thanks!

Est.