GSoC '17 Intro -- Hi!

[Becca Milman]

Mar 15

Hello all,

I'm Becca and I'm a senior studying at UC Berkeley. I come from a small city close to Berkeley called Menlo Park. I'm a computer science major with a physics minor looking to apply my skills to artistic pursuits. I've always been interested in visual art through drawing and would like to extend this interest to computer graphics. I'm currently exploring convolutional neural nets for computer vision. I'm hoping to pursue a Masters for either computer graphics or computer vision, or possibly work at an exciting project in industry.

Regarding open source projects, I'm quite new to them. I've certainly used open source code often in various projects. My github has a few projects you are welcome to check out! (The computational photography projects are in ipython though.)

As far as rendering goes, I've used Pixar's RenderMan and Autodesk's Maya renderer to make a Pixar-style short. I've also played a bit with Blender. I've never contributed to an open source renderer, but I have built a ray tracer in C++. It included lensing effects and subsurface scattering -- it was really fun to work on.

I actually never heard of appleseed before GSoC, but I'm looking forward to exploring it!

I'm confident coding in Python, Java and Ruby. Its been a year since I coded in C++, but I'm sure I'll pick it up quickly again. I used STL for the ray tracer, so I'm familiar with the main classes. I'm very comfortable using Git and Github including cherry picking and code reviews. I worked at AutoGrid for a summer and followed their coding guidelines. They use code climate to ensure good coding practices and they also use thorough peer reviews. At AutoGrid, I broke down parts of their large codebase to make microservices so I had to be quite familiar with the original code. It felt overwhelming at first, but once I broke it down it felt manageable. 

I'm interested in working on the Volumetric Scattering project! I've implemented single scattering for materials (BSSRDF) and would like to extend that to the more general case. I'm comfortable reading papers and implementing them so this project feels within scope, especially since I've already done a smaller version.

If everything goes well, I'd love to be a mentor next year, especially to be a female role model.

Best,

Becca

[François Beaune]

Hello Becca,

Thanks for the terrific intro!

I just sent you an invite to join us on Slack.

Welcome!

Franz

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