GSoC student wanted

[Christopher Sean Morrison]

This message is for potential GSoC applicants!  I wanted to let you know that there is an Appleseed project opportunity at the BRL-CAD organization, making or optimizing any infrastructure changes necessary in Appleseed so that we can integrate it as a renderer for BRL-CAD geometry.  This work would primarily consist of making modifications to the Appleseed source code such that it can call into other libraries for intersection evaluation.  Once the hooks are available, doing the integration so Appleseed becomes BRL-CAD's default renderer would be the next priority.  If this sounds interesting, please get in touch.

If there's a demonstrably capable student with a well researched plan, BRL-CAD will be allocating one of their slots for that person to work on Appleseed too.  Please understand that this notice is certainly NOT to take away any capable students interested in working on Appleseed.  Do not let this distract you from making a proposal to Appleseed.  I would encourage you to submit a proposal to both organizations if this project is of interest and we'll sort things out as needed.

Cheers!

Sean

BRL-CAD

  

[François Beaune]

Hey Sean,

Pretty awesome! Thanks for the heads up.

Franz

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[Christopher Sean Morrison]

Sure thing, Franz!

We've had the task idea listed for a couple years now, but nobody thus far.  This would instantly be a top-pick priority given it's something we've wanted (and needed) for a long time now (as you well know), but not had time to push through ourselves.  Hoping to spark some real interest.  Seems perfectly scoped for GSoC.

Cheers!

Sean

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[Christopher Sean Morrison]

Hi GSoC Candidates!

This is a final reminder to students that the BRL-CAD GSoC organization is looking for someone interested in integrating Appleseed rendering with BRL-CAD ray tracing.  If you have a grasp of intersection kernels and/or Appleseed internals and this sounds interesting to you, please send me a message so we can collaborate on your proposal and go over requirements.  See the original posting below for details.

Cheers!

Sean

BRL-CAD

[Christopher Sean Morrison]

Just a final update, BRL-CAD didn't get any proposals for this topic (despite being essentially guaranteed student selection!).  We'll have to search another avenue to get a developer assigned or try again next year.  It's remains a priority topic. 

Cheers!

Sean

 

On Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 12:23:09 AM UTC-5, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote:

[François Beaune]

Too bad!

Out of curiosity, how many proposals did you get and how many mentors do you have?

Franz

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[Christopher Sean Morrison]

> On Apr 3, 2017, at 5:24 PM, François Beaune <dic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Too bad!
>
> Out of curiosity, how many proposals did you get and how many mentors do you have?

The numbers are curiously low this year. We usually get 30-50 proposals but we got half. Perhaps due to program changes or this year's new orgs taking some attention away? Doesn’t matter — we got at least a dozen top-notch candidates to choose from. We have 14 mentors signed up, usually aiming for a 2:1 ratio.

Cheers!
Sean