On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:11 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
It's great to see this program continuing again this year.
Just to illustrate how huge of an impact this project has had, last year Google funded two students to work for Inkscape on implementing 'gaussian blur'. Gaussian Blur is what allows things like drop shadows, feathering, blurring, etc. This was a very significant and challenging feature to get implemented, and required a good bit of effect to get it perfected, but those two students put in the bones for it.
To give an idea of how profoundly this has improved Inkscape, take a look at these examples, that almost seem photorealistic:
http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-volumetric-light.png http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-photorealistic-car2.pn... http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-cupoftea.png http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45363866/
Thanks google! It will be exciting to see what advancements this year's GSoC students will produce. :-)
Bryce
Heya all, I stubbed out a space on our wiki to brainstorm about good ideas (which some have done on the wiki). Please take a chance to help motivate that wiki page, edit out the old 2006 ideas (as it is currently just that list), and come up with some stellar ideas:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2007
Anyway, the GSoC timeline is coming along quickly....fun!!!!
Jon