[GRASS-dev] GSoC 2011

[Helena Mitasova]

I very much agree with Martin and I am excited to see a really qualified student 
interested in this important project.
There is still a lot of work to do but the tasks are very specific and well suited to GSoC.

Helena

Helena Mitasova
Associate Professor
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
2800 Faucette Drive, Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu





On Apr 3, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Martin Landa wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 2011/4/3 Anna Kratochvílová <KratochAnna at seznam.cz>:
> 
>> my name is Anna Kratochvilova and I'm a student of FCE CTU in Prague. I would like to take part in Google Summer of Code with a project focused on wxNviz GUI [1]. Presently I'm developing GUI for ps.map within my bachelors project [2] and my mentor Martin Landa suggested me to aim the GSoC project at completion of wxNviz's missing functionality. I would like to inform you this way of my GSoC proposal [3].
> 
> right, fully functional replacement of old-fashioned Nviz tool is one
> of the major issues for GRASS 7 (ie. to drop Tcl/Tk dependency). I
> started development of wxNviz (aka wxGUI 3D view mode) [1] within GSoC
> 2008 and later in 2010 continued in the development [2, 3]. I have
> implemented fundamental functionality, designed integrated UI as 3D
> view mode in wxGUI. Beside wxNviz I have also implemented CLI tool
> nviz_cmd [4] and related Nviz library [5]. In the result wxNviz
> implements about 60-70% of the original Nviz functionality. From this
> point of view this project seems to be very good candidate, it's
> project with a clear roadmap. The goal of 3rd year is to complete the
> project - implement fully functional modern 3D visualization GRASS
> tool with integrated, intuitive UI with smooth switch between 2D and
> 3D view mode in wxGUI display window.
> 
> Anna is very talented student. I am more then satisfied with her work
> on GUI for ps.map (tester welcomed!). She is interested to work for
> GRASS. From this POV GSoC is perfect support of such students. Please
> feel free to comment her application!
> 
> Martin
> 
> [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxNviz
> [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxNviz_GSoC_2008
> [3] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxNviz_GSoC_2010
> [4] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/html70_user/nviz_cmd.html
> [5] http://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/nvizlib.html
> 
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