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BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source combinatorial Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system that includes interactive 3D solid geometry editing, a network-distributed symmetric multiprocessing high-performance ray-tracer, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools, ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, numerical processing libraries, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an embedded scripting interface, and a robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis library.

BRL-CAD is extensively cross-platform supporting Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, IRIX, Solaris, and more. BRL-CAD's development heritage of more than 20 years continues to grow.

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Large commit — Cleanup in clstepcore. SCL git 239ce49 and f9b9...

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In commit r50506 by Nicholas Reed (Using name ‘n_reed’) on 2012-05-10 (11 days ago)

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Large commit — Fix and doxify comments, plus misc cleanup. SCL...

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In commit r50492 by Nicholas Reed (Using name ‘n_reed’) on 2012-05-10 (12 days ago)

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Large commit — revert r50386,50391-50393 as removal of prior b...

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In commit r50398 by sean (Using name ‘brlcad’) on 2012-05-02 (20 days ago)

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Large commit — 11 months and a minor, time to purge the autoto...

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In commit r50386 by erikg (Using name ‘erikgreenwald’) on 2012-05-01 (21 days ago)

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Large commit — ws, style, semicolons after macros

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In commit r50182 by tbrowder (Using name ‘tbrowder2’) on 2012-04-19 (about 1 month ago)

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News

GSoC 2012 Proposal Submissions

Once again participating in the Google Summer of Code [1], students interested in working on BRL-CAD this summer have been diligently preparing and posting proposals over the past couple weeks. In all, we ended up with about 50 submissions by the ... [More] deadline with about three dozen or so being considered valid proposals that will go through our review process. [Less]


BRL-CAD and the 2012 Google Summer of Code

The BRL-CAD open source community is once again delighted to be participating as a mentoring organization in the 2012 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)! We will be helping students develop their project proposals through the April 6th application ... [More] deadline. Any students interested in joining the BRL-CAD development team this summer can get started here: [Less]


Coverity Case Study: BRL-CAD Development Testing

A little over a month ago at a week-long coffee-infused hack-a-thon in-person gathering, many of our core developers worked on improving BRL-CAD's source code. The team inspected and fixed more than fifteen hundred issues being reported by Coverity ... [More] Static Analysis*. Just released, the 2011 Coverity Open Source Integrity Report [1] includes a two-page case study detailing our efforts. The free report is available (registration req'd) through the Open Scan Initiative website: [Less]


Updated BRL-CAD export plugin for Pro/E

A new version of BRL-CAD's geometry converter plugin for Pro/ENGINEER is now available for download [1]. The ProE-BRL plugin is a production exporter that has been developed over the years as a means of importing geometry into BRL-CAD from ... [More] Pro/ENGINEER. This update of the plugin for the Windows platform supports Wildfire 4 (64-bit), Wildfire 5 (64-bit), and Creo (32-bit and 64-bit). The plugin will work on other platforms, but will have to be compiled from a source distribution. This binary release is once again being provided with the hopes that it will be useful and should fix problems loading the plugin on Vista. [Less]


Advanced Joint Effectiveness Model (AJEM)

The Advanced Joint Effectiveness Model (AJEM) [1] development team recently announced the availability of a new AJEM release. As BRL-CAD is incorporated as an integral part of AJEM, a brief overview is provided.


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