Posted
7 months
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
I am happy to announce that we have selected five individuals to work on BRL-CAD for the 2009 Google Summer of Code! (0 comments)
Posted
8 months
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
For our second year in a row, I'm delighted to announce that BRL-CAD has once again been accepted into the 2009 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)! GSoC is a summer program hosted by Google every year where they pay students a stipend of $4500 to work on
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specific open source projects. It's a highly competitive program both for the students and for the mentoring organizations. This year, there were approximately 400 open source organizations that applied with 150 being selected to participate. (0 comments) [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
Of the many enhancements included in this release, MGED gets a powerful new command called 'search' that is very similar to the UNIX find command but specifically tailored to geometry hierarchies. Included in the implementation of 'search' is the
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ability to list geometry that matches a specified name using glob patterns or regular expressions. You can also search for objects that have specific attributes set, that are referenced in combinations, are at a particular depth in the geometry hierarchy, and much more. You can combine search expressions together using boolean logic as well for even more powerful searching and listing operations. (0 comments) [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
Included below are some BRL-CAD project statistics that have been tabulated for the past fiscal year, from October 2007 to October 2008. It was rather interesting to pull the numbers to see how we compare to the previous year, so I thought I'd share
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with you some of the details. Since, we've not ever (publicly) done this before, a few words are worth mentioning before getting to the results... (0 comments) [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
This release enhances the formatting options available "out of the box" for the NIRT tool, allowing users to easily select different data reporting options without having to define their own custom configuration files. Comma-separated
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value (CSV) output options also allow for quick and easy import into spreadsheets. The new -L option lists available formats. (0 comments) [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
I'm happy to announce the availability of BRL-CAD 7.12.4. This release contains numerous enhancements to MGED's mirror command, now with the ability to mirror an object across arbitrary vectors or points along a standard axis. Additionally, NIRT
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now has a new "gap" options for reporting the empty spaces between objects with additional formatting options under development. The release also has a new procedural database geometry tool. (0 comments) [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
With a few minor updates, bug fixes, and tweaks, the 7.12.2 release is now available. Contrary to the 7.12.0 release notes, we're *actually* finally providing an updated installer for Windows (really .. it's already uploaded!). With much thanks and
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appreciation, we now have a new and improved installer for BRL-CAD on Windows due to the efforts of Jonathan Bonomo. There are also useful enhancements to RT, RTAREA, and MGED's clone and saveview commands among other enhancements. (0 comments) [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
I'm very pleased to announce the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student selections for BRL-CAD! After a detailed evaluation and review period, we requested and were approved to mentor four students over the upcoming summer. Our students were selected
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from among nearly two dozen applicants based on their potential as a new long-term developer, their ability to communicate effectively, the quality of their project proposal, their technical ability, and our ability to effectively mentor them. (0 comments) [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
BRL-CAD has been accepted as a mentoring organization in the 2008 Google Summer of Code [1]! The program pays students a stipend of $4500 over the course of summer to work on open source projects. The student application period is open March 24th
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through March 31st. Students interested in participating should visit the BRL-CAD GSoC wiki pages [2] for more information about the submission process and details on some of our suggested project ideas [3]. (0 comments) [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
brl...@users.sourceforge.net (Sean Morrison)
We are proud to announce the release of BRL-CAD 7.12.0, bringing together many months of effort from the BRL-CAD developers. This version is the most feature-filled backwards-compatible release to date, providing more than 75 new features, bug
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fixes, and other enhancements. Included in those efforts are enhancements to the Windows port, a new INTAVAL geometry importer, return of the "clone" command to mged, Tcl/Tk dependency enhancements, and much more. (0 comments) [Less]