Hey Max!
You seem to share the same enthusiasm as I do. You have beat me to the bug fixing though... I was hoping to do that this week along with putting together some proposals ;)
On second thought, the shared interest of two people could also be a great advantage because maybe there is a way to split the project into smaller parts which can be tackled more or less independently.
I think that if this is possible, it's a really great idea. Our abilities seem to match up well, because as you say, you have a (probably) deeper understanding of the math, and I (may) have more programming experience given that my major is computer science rather than minor. Yet I imagine we are both sufficiently proficient in both aspects. I guess we can wait and see what the good mentoring folks say, but if we can come up with complementary proposals where we each have separate and sufficient work, I imagine our chances are good!
I should note, though, that there are many suggested projects I am interested in, which somewhat deters me from wanting to come up with my own ideas ;) Instead, I may just try to put together a killer proposal for the suggested project ideas. We'll see what happens. My point here is mostly that if you turn out to be more suited for the 3D tool, there are no hard feelings. We should both put forward multiple proposals if possible and it would be nice if we could both get in.
Looking forward to seeing how this will play out, Gail