Re: [boost] [gsoc18] Mentor Search for Boost.Geometry idea

Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc18] Mentor Search for Boost.Geometry idea
From: Vissarion Fisikopoulos (fisikop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-03-16 10:54:57

Hi Tinko,

I am interested to serve as a mentor to that project.

Looking forward to your proposal and implementation.

Best,
Vissarion.

On 16 March 2018 at 01:11, Tinko Bartels via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my name is Tinko Bartels, I'm studying to get a Master's degree in
> Mathematics at TU Berlin. I'm interested to work on Boost Geometry. I'm
> working at the university for a couple of years on C++ projects that rely on
> Boost libraries, most notably Boost.Geometry. Our work involves the
> computation of exact covers of spaces with boxes. This motivated my idea to
> add support to
>
> void union_(Geometry1 const & geometry1, Geometry2 const & geometry2,
> Collection & output_collection)
> void sym_difference(Geometry1 const & geometry1, Geometry2 const &
> geometry2, Collection & output_collection)
> void difference(Geometry1 const & geometry1, Geometry2 const & geometry2,
> Collection & output_collection)
>
> for
>
> Geometry1=Geometry2=box
> and
> Collection is a collection of boxes.
>
> Since I have no merged contributions to open source projects to refer to, I
> could, for example, provide an implementation of the difference method for
> types adhering to the box concept and a collection of boxes as
> output_collection.
>
> Since the results of those operations in terms of exact covers of the
> resulting space with boxes are not uniquely defined and the implementation
> should take less than 3 months, additional strategies for these
> specializations of the above algorithms could be added as future milestones.
>
> If this endeavor is considered worthwhile by potential mentors, I would get
> started on writing a proposal right away.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tinko Bartels
>
>
>
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