[OSM-dev] GSOC introduction and project question (OSM2World)

[Laco Pápay]

Hello everyone,

my name is Laco Papay and I'm a student at Comenius University in
Bratislava, Slovakia. Last year I've finished my bachelor's degree
with honors in Computer Science and I'm currently pursuing a major in
the same field.

I'm interested in the "Recording and Playback of Camera Movement in
OSM2World" project. I believe both the main task itself and the task
extensions noted there (smoothing, GPX import) could be implemented
within the GSOC timeframe.

I would like to ask the project mentors (Peda and Tordanik) what they
consider the most important part of the project and the possible first
step. I think it would be best to start with the GUI, with the option
to record and playback the motion within the GUI itself. Then the next
step would be to import GPX tracks and use the existing playback for
debugging.

I have experience with both Java and graphics programming (from game
programming competitions). I have also written a small raytracer for
fun, in course of which I've used and researched the source code of
several existing ones. Some of my projects can be found at
https://github.com/lacop and https://bitbucket.org/lacop.

I've been using OSM as my go-to map source for quite some time and
I've contributed some small improvements in my area.

Thank you,
Laco.