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This document contains a list of ideas for interns' or student's
projects:
* A QNX port (QNX for x86 platforms is supposedly available for free
download from www.qnx.com)
* A "gl-attack" application stressing many different aspects of
OpenGL-drivers to try to make them crash or exhibit bugs.
* Work with the documentation to improve it (add example code
snippets, screenshots, elaborate on the important parts, ...).
* Write many more examples, covering the functionality offered by
Coin.
* Write a tutorial.
* Write a NURBS-library covering all the necessary functionality we
need within the nurbs-based node classes. A good starting point
would probably be the newly released OpenGL library from SGI (which
contains a separate libnurbs module, it seems). Avoiding using GLU
could solve a lot of problems.
* An IVF (MFC-based) GUI-glue library.
* Make simple routines for packaging up Coin for RedHat Linux (.rpm),
Suse Linux (.rpm), Debian (.deb), HP-UX (depot), SGI IRIX
(something), etc. Check out the Samba distribution, there are lots
of templates to look at.
* Do the work needed for being compatible with 64-bit systems. These
areas should at least be audited:
- binary file format load and save: likely to not be able to
interoperate with files from 32-bit system
- SoOffscreenRenderer raster file I/O?
- static, default font data
- SbDict usage (keys are unsigned long (which could be 32 bits
wide), values are void*)
* Profiling and optimalization of rendering and other action
traversals.
* A regression test system for the classes under Coin/src/base.
* Profiling and optimalization of the base classes. Should depend on a
good regression test suite having been implemented first.
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