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===About Me===

===About Me===

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'''Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?'''

'''Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. If not, why do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?'''

I am only a recent entrant to the world of Open source. But the world of open source has always fascinated me. <Complete this portion>

I am only a recent entrant to the world of Open source. My initial interaction with the open source has been through sugar. I have spent the past few weeks going through codes of various sugar activities, trying to contribute in the community. The world of open source has always fascinated me. It has given so much to the society, operating systems, browsers, and now even learning tools for children. I feel that open source is the biggest collective philanthropic effort of man kind and I would love to be a part of this effort. Hence I would like to devote my summer in this world of open source and contribute in the community with my technical know how. 

===About your project===

===About your project===

'''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''

'''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?'''

Turtle Blocks 3D JavaScript is an extension to the JavaScript Version of the Turtle Blocks activity. The current JavaScript version is limited to 2D functions. The idea is to allow 3D functions like setting the roll, pitch, yaw in the activity along with all the features that are currently available. This would allow students to draw 3 Dimensional figures. Even though a version of the same is available <To be completed>

Turtle Blocks 3D is an extension of the turtle blocks activity written in JavaScript to 3D and is a port to JavaScript of turtle blocks 3D version written in python with added features. Initially the turtle blocks was a activity that simulated a logo like environment wherein children could do 2D graphical scripting to draw shapes and patterns. A need for a JavaScript version was felt as well as a 3D version for the activity. Both theses have been implemented but the JavaScript version is limited to 2D art, and the python 3D version is limited because of the incompatibility between GTK(what sugar uses) and OpenGL. A 3D implementation in JavaScript would take advantage of many available graphic libraries like texture mapping and 3D lighting. It will also benefit from the complete compatibility of OpenGL/WebGL. Apart from these technicalities, it will allow a 3D visualization/learning tool available directly on the WWW for the students.

 

This project would add basic 3D functions to turtle blocks (e.g. pitch, roll, yaw), camera handling, 3D lighting, texture mapping and lot of examples. It would also have the ability to export the created models to Blender supported format.  

 

This extension would be useful for students. It would enable them to create 3 dimensional objects using simple graphical scripting. It would help them in a number of ways:

* Increases the 3D visualization skills of the students.

* It is fun and boosts their creativity.

This project would be taken under the mentorship of Tony Forster and Walter Bender. This would be a sugar activity written in JavaScript and would add towards the motive of the sugar community to add support for HTML 5/JavaScript.

 

 

'''What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is from May 19 - August 22; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (27 June); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.'''

'''What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is from May 19 - August 22; tell us what you will be working on each week. (As the summer goes on, you and your mentor will adjust your schedule, but it's good to have a plan at the beginning so you have an idea of where you're headed.) Note that you should probably plan to have something "working and 90% done" by the midterm evaluation (27 June); the last steps always take longer than you think, and we will consider cancelling projects which are not mostly working by then.'''