[matplotlib-devel] GSOC 2013 (Google Summer Of Code)

[Nicolas R. <Nic...@in...>]

Hi all,

Are there any ongoing project for GSOC 2013 ? I would like to propose something around a GL backend but I'm not still sure OpenGL "philosophy" is compatible with current matplotlib design and any project would require co-mentoring with a matplotlib devel guru. There is a lot of experienced people around (Luke Campagnola, Cyrille Rossant, Almar Klein to name a few) who can help on the GL part and we're also currently trying to design together a common low-level API that may definitely help for the GL backend. What do you think ? Do we need first to make sure a GL backend make any sense at all before going further ?


Here is a small set of GL experiments I did recently that make me thinks it should be possible to come up with something nice and fast: https://github.com/rougier/gl-agg


Some movies for those who don't want to test: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T010zMtorAk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFwEzV9Pw-4




Nicolas