Re: octave, the Summer of Code Project

[JuanPi]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:58 AM, 易宇轩 <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sir,
>
> Sorry to bother you. I’m writing to learn more about the project of
> implementing boolean operations on polygons of octave in the Summer of Code
> Project.
>
> I’ve just subscribed the mailing list octave-maintainers-request. Someone
> shared his code on GitHub, and I’ve looked through it. But I still don’t
> know about the main problem we need to settle at present. How’s the project
> going now and what’s others’ ideas?
>
> I’m looking forward to your reply, and would you mind offering me the mail
> address of John Swensen, the mentor of this project? Thanks a million!

Hello,

You shouldn't write to us personally, but to the mailing list. If you
look carefully you will see we told this already to the other
prospective students.
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/GSoC-2017-Implement-boolean-operations-on-polygons-tt4682161.html

The problem is generally stated as adding the operations to the
geometry package. This entails one or more of the following (or some
other things that a proactive student might come up with)
1. Clear the already implemented Boost interface
2. Add interface to CGAL
3. Add a complete interface to Clipper

There have been other proposals, you are free to propose your own and
we will select what we consider the most doable and useful. We are
definitely interested in the above.
At this stage the best is to show us that you can contribute to
octave, by sending us some patches or code, as you saw in the mailing
list. In the savanah tracker you will find the current status of the
Clipper interface contributed by Philip Neuhuis

Regards,

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