Google Summer of Code - 2019 Projects¶

Progress updates for 2019

Current State¶

Results for the projects have been announced here.

1^st evaluation - 24 - 28 June 2^nd evaluation - 22 - 26 July Final submission - 19 - 26 August

Communication¶

Development Forum¶

All Blender and code related topics will go to the devtalk forum. Here students will also post their weekly reports, and can ask for feedback on topics or share intermediate results with everyone.

https://devtalk.blender.org/c/blender/summer-of-code

chat.blender.org¶

For real-time discussions between students and mentors. Weekly meetings will be scheduled here as well.

https://chat.blender.org

Projects¶

Google has granted 8 projects for the Blender Foundation.

Continued development on LANPR engine for Blender¶

by Yiming Wu Mentors: Sebastian Parborg, Clement Foucault

• Proposal
• Updates
• Summary

Intel Embree BVH for GPU¶

by Quentin MATILLAT Mentors: Sergey Sharybin, Stefan Werner

Improve Cycles/EEVEE For Procedural Content Creation¶

by Omar Ahmad Mentors: Jacques Lucke, Brecht Van Lommel

• Proposal

Outliner Improvements¶

by Nathan Craddock Mentors: Campbell Barton, Brecht van Lommel

• Proposal
• Plan and Schedule
• Final Report

Core Support of Virtual Reality Headsets through OpenXR¶

by Julian Eisel Mentors: Dalai Felinto, Sebastian Koenig

• Proposal (Updated)
• How to Test
• Final Report

Cloth Simulator Improvement¶

by Ish Hitesh Bosamiya Mentors: Brecht Van Lommel, Jeroen Bakker

• Proposal
• Weekly Reports
• Final Report

Fast Import / Export for OBJ, STL and PLY formats¶

by Hugo Sales Mentors: Jacques Lucke, Sybren Stüvel

• Proposal

Bevel Custom Profiles¶

by Hans Goudey Mentors: Howard Trickey, Rohan Rathi

• Proposal
• Weekly Reports
• Log
• Notes
• Final Report