[brlcad-commits] SF.net SVN: brlcad:[63661] brlcad/trunk/src/libgcv/NOTES

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Revision: 63661
          http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/63661
Author:   brlcad
Date:     2014-12-10 19:37:06 +0000 (Wed, 10 Dec 2014)
Log Message:
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write down some initial thoughts on a plan of attack to get to baseline functionality.

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    brlcad/trunk/src/libgcv/NOTES

Modified: brlcad/trunk/src/libgcv/NOTES
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--- brlcad/trunk/src/libgcv/NOTES	2014-12-10 19:27:47 UTC (rev 63660)
+++ brlcad/trunk/src/libgcv/NOTES	2014-12-10 19:37:06 UTC (rev 63661)
@@ -64,6 +64,33 @@
 priority, but may influence design options.
 
 
+PLAN OF ATTACK
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+
+  1) move just the STL code without making any improvements or refactoring, get it under the API.
+  2) that will undoubtedly require API adjusting.  adjust.
+  3) get gcv command reading/writing stl files via libgcv.
+  4) implement a brl-cad import/export plugin for v4/v5 binary, hook into libgcv.
+  5) again, adjust and modify the API as needed here, checkpoint status.
+  6) ensure gcv command recognizes stl and .g without requiring knowledge of them.
+  7) test that g-to-stl is working and stl-to-g is working.
+  8) migrate obj support into gcv (redundancies and all).
+  9) implement general testing framework to evaluate all possible input/output combinations.
+ 10) test g-to-obj, obj-to-g, stl-to-obj, obj-to-stl, and report status.
+ 11) migrate fast4 import support.
+ 12) migrate vrml export support.
+ 13) test fast4-to-g, fast4-to-obj, fast4-to-stl, fast4-to-vrml, g-to-vrml, stl-to-vrml, obj-to-vrml.
+ 14) evaluate refactoring/consolidation of polygonal mesh logic in all formats.
+ 15) ensure gcv documentation is accurate and up-to-date (doxygen comments in the header).
+  *) eliminate globals
+  *) create a libgcv plugin template
+  *) fast4 export
+  *) vrml import
+  *) create a stand-alone basic application runtime toolkit (BAR = libbu+libbn)
+  *) update build system so GCV can be separated from the build tree stand-alone with BAR
+  *) make gcv convert multithreaded
+
+
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