Things to do for new contributors

[rossant]

Vispy is a high-performance visualization library in Python. Although working on the internals of Vispy requires knowing some OpenGL and GLSL, there's a lot of work to do for general Python/NumPy programmers. Web developers are also welcome to contribute (JavaScript, backbone.js, WebGL).

The following list contains tasks that new-comers can tackle without much knowledge of OpenGL/GLSL (see also the list of issues on GitHub).

• [x] Work on the headless mode (#78)
• [x] Porting @rougier's collections to Vispy (#410)
• [x] Adding a few examples (#420 #434 #435)
• [x] Implement ffmpeg binding (#419)
• Independent features (mainly for new contributors):
  • [ ] #123: path animations
  • [ ] #131: high-level interactions (hard)
  • [ ] #132: serialization of binary data in PNG images (hard)
  • [x] #194: geometry routines useful for visualization
  • [ ] #367: collision-free configurations
  • [x] #648: implement more colormaps
  • [ ] #415: generating distinct colors
• Dependent features (need some knowledge of Vispy and OpenGL):
  • [x] #157: arcball camera
  • [ ] #158: SVG visuals (especially paths, Bézier curves, etc.)
  • [x] #181: exporting animations to videos (requires #419)
  • [x] #416: GLSL color transformation functions (just a matter of reusing existing GLSL code and putting it at the right place in Vispy)
  • [x] #417: implementing arrows and quiver plots

[rossant]

Thanks to all participants!

I'm going to keep this open for now, as this gives a nice overview of the things that new contributors can tackle without much knowledge of Vispy/OpenGL.

[kmuehlbauer]

I made the list in the issue using checkboxes and started checking, when resolved.

[GuillaumeFavelier]

If I'm not wrong, #78 and #417 can be checked, the corresponding issues have been closed.

[djhoese]

@GuillaumeFavelier Thanks. Checked.