GSoC #4

I am trying to lay my hands on test dataset.
Since the work done by other people was long ago, it is less work to just redo it by yourself.
So, that's what I will do from tomorrow.

GSoC #3

This is one of those moments when you are thankful you averted a big mistake early.
It had slipped my mind that I am supposed to build up on what has already been done.
And I was trying to reinvent the wheel for two days. Sigh! But I learnt something, at least and I am glad I caught my blunder on time.
WW_subsurface is the work done in previous years. I had used a few examples from this but had never set it up fully. I was doing that today. Turns out that I haven't succeeded completely. I ran a few files individually but I need to set up this project again.

GSoC #2

I am trying to figure out a way to visualize the subsurface. I know how to look INTO the subsurface but right now I am stuck at this point.

I am already yawning. Hoping to make better progress tomorrow.

GSoC Day 1

The first in the many to come. :D

Pardon the randomness, if any.

This summer my project is titled "Display of subsurface features in a virtual world".

I shall be using the World Wind SDK by NASA for my work.

I am already done with setting things up and managed to run the most basic features necessary, i.e., how to fiddle with transparency.

Tools: Eclipse IDE
Language: Java

The Fog

The fog refuses to go away,

The sun can’t find its way,

The sun isn't mine,

The fog isn't mine either

But has found its way into my soul.

The sun is knocking,

On the doors of my heart,

Ouch, fog and sun are fighting,

Hurting and knocking down my heart.

See! fog is waning,

Sun is winning,

But it hurts me,

Yet, I just watch while they hurt me,

Yes, I will just watch.

The hurt is nice,

Like the bitterest elixir,

Spreads through me,

Altering me, Controlling me.

One little push,

And the sun will win,

And the fog is grumpily retreating,

Now, yes, now the sun is in.

Is my heart too small,

For you, oh sun?

Can you not just fit in there?

Oh yes, you are just sitting in there.

Uncomfortably, but waiting.

Will you just hang in there,

Oh I see, your heat expands my heart,

I see your trouble

Some day, it would be me in you.

A heart in the sun,

Not a sun in the heart.

GSoC Wrap-Up

In case you missed my previous posts, I was working with Wikimedia on the project "Refactoring of ProofreadPage extension" as a Google Summer of Code 2013 intern. Do I have a word for the experience I've had in the last 5 months? Yes, stirring. My mentors Thomas and Thibaut have been the most wonderful mentors you could have expected. And I have fallen in love with the ProofreadPage extension and Wikisource. Well, I can go on and on about how good Wikisource and the experience was but I would prefer talking about the project here.

    The aim of the project was to refactor the code so that it was written in a more modular and cleaner way. We had aimed at separating the various components and actions as much as possible. Also, we tried to reduce the Javascript code to a bare minimum so that even if a user has disabled Javascript execution in his/her browser, the extension does not face any severe handicap and provides all the functionality.

    So, here is a recap of what has been done in the project:
1. The handling of Index and Page pages have been separated.
2. The editing system has been separated from the reading system.
3. The setup of editing system has been removed from Javascript and shifted to PHP.
4. The image on the read page which was being rendered using Javascript was also shifted to PHP.
5. The process of getting data from the database was separated from the processing of data itself.
6. The Javascript was almost completely rewritten. A lot of Javascript was rendered redundant when a       few things were moved to PHP. Also, we started using a new zooming library for the zooming               functionality in the extension.

I plan to stick to the project and integrate VisualEditor with ProofreadPage.

Winter of Death

An attempt at a poem after a long time. It's not very nice but one has to pick the fallen things some time.

No muffled cries of pain,
No tears with the rain,
Her attempts at winter went in vain.

The summer does not end,
She yearns not for the summer,
She wishes for the winter,
As cold as her heart.

The autumn in your heart
keeps the winter away,
Yet the winter doesn't keep away the summer.

She sought to destroy the winter,
Yet the summer wasn't strong,
It sweltered,
Peaches and melons burst,
Not her heart.

Life was as much of a traitor as ever,
Loyalty was loved,
Death would be her friend,
For she was also hated by everyone.

Death vowed to protect her,
For She was the only one,
The one whose desire for her was unruly,
She was the only one docile to her,
The only insatiable seeker.

As death departed with Her,
Life found the next one,
And danced to the maddening songs of life.

Death, the one who kept her promise,
Life, the one She hated,
Summer, always around, never in Her,
Winter, unflinchingly in Her heart.

Death, the one with Her,
The one who brought Her desired Winter
Around Her and filled Her with Summer.

Please pardon the excessive use of cliches.