On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Maximilian Albert <Anhalter42@...173...> wrote:
unfortunately I haven't yet received any response to my other emails, so I don't know if there is a potential mentor for any of them or if they are suitable for a SoC project at all.
Of course they are! Don't get discouraged by a lack of response - I guess everyone is just too busy with 0.46 rollout :)
I would love to be your mentor on the 3D box project, of course. There's lot of work still to do, and it must be done, otherwise it looks a bit unfinished. Your ideas for that are excellent, though I might add a few things, for example subdividing a box into halves/thirds/etc in one of the three planes or duplicating a box along an axis. I think you should concentrate on 3D trackball rotation first as the most complex part of it. Once it's there, the rest is easy.
The tech drawing proposal is also interesting - I love and use KSEG which implements all this, and it would be interesting to see this working in Inkscape. From what I see, most if not all of these features can be implemented as LPEs and thus be sufficiently orthogonal to everything else. Still, while it's up to you of course, I think I would prefer you to continue working on the 3D box simply because there are so many loose ends there :)