GSoC 2017 - Hello appleseed!

[Nabil M]

Greetings from Canada, Eh!

My name is Nabil and I am a Computer Science student completing my Honours Undergrad Degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada). I am also very near to completing my Applied Mathematics Minor with motivation to apply my skills in Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus, and Differential Equations in the realm of computer graphics.

In terms of technical skill, I am very proficient in "modern" C++ (C++11 and later) and STL, with prior experience in Java, C, and Python. For libraries, I have used Boost and Qt professionally, and for some personal projects. Over the past year my deep interest in graphics has led me to write a real-time renderer using modern OpenGL, however I am presently working to rewrite it using a more modular approach. Here is my Github: https://github.com/htmlboss. I have worked with the authors of various graphics-related projects, contributing bugfixes, and providing code changes that target performance improvements (thus I'm very familiar with profiling and perf. testing).

To be honest, ALL of your project ideas are very interesting to me, however here are the ones that I would love to tackle, with brief comments in paranthesis:

#4 Volume Rendering (from a quick bit of research, these scattering equations are very calculus-heavy...something I never shy away from)

#9 Implicit Shapes (my vector calculus background should be very useful here)

#11 Spectral rendering using tristimulus colours (reading scientific papers is of no consequence to me since I read papers regarding various graphics-related topics very regularly)

#18 Small standalone render viewer (this is actually a project that I've had on my mind for a while now, so I have a very bare-bones idea on how to implement this in Qt)

At the time of writing this, I have forked your repository, compiled all the dependencies, and am about to compile appleseed for VS 2017.

In short, I am very excited to have come across your project on the GSoC website and I hope that I may be given the opportunity to contribute to appleseed, whilst furthering my own knowledge in 3D rendering!

Thank you for your consideration!

Cheers,

-Nabil M

[François Beaune]

Hey Nabil, welcome!

Sending you a Slack invite now!

Franz

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