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+First Post
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+.. post:: May 23 2022
+  :author: Mohamed Abouagour
+  :tags: google
+  :category: gsoc
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+A Little About Myself
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+I am Mohamed from Egypt. , I am pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering and Automatic Control (expected: 2023), Tanta University, Egypt. 
+I've been around computers since 2008 when I had my first PC with 128MB RAM and ran on Windows XP (that's almost all I could remember about it). 
+Around 2013 I started to have some questions about how games are made and how to make them myself!. 
+There was no one to answer these questions for me.
+My English wasn't any good and the game development Arabic community was very hard to find on the internet but eventually, I came across a forum with some people speaking about some stuff such as game engines, 3D models, textures, animations, and a lot of fun stuff that made sense back then and answered some of my questions. Then It was time to get involved with this amazing community, I was lucky enough to start with 3ds Max 2009 Edition, with that little view cube begging me to touch it. It was just love at first sight)
+I learned enough to model a basic house with no interior. 
+I was very curious about these game engines. Back then the top three game engines available for the public were `CryEngine 3 <https://www.cryengine.com/>`_, `UDK <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Engine#Unreal_Development_Kit>`_ and `Unity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29#Unity_3.0_%282010%29>`_. I  was advised to use CryEngine 3 since it required no coding experience to use it. I started designing and texturing terrains and adding 3D models (I remember adding a pyramid and had a hard time scaling it down).
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+My first coding experience
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+It started with C programming language which I came across while taking Harvard's CS50. I then used it in competitive programming as my primary language. 
+When I heard about OpenGL API for the first time from a senior and that it is being used to develop game engines, I started learning it along with GLSL. 
+And it finally hit me: It's all math! 
+I then started practicing pipelines, lighting models such as Blinn and Blinn-Phong models, cameras, texturing, fog, skybox, shadows, etc...
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+Develpoing 3D game
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+In the Graphics course, OpenGL was being taught to us using python and there was a course Project! 
+I started preparing my pipelines only for the Professor to tell us that we are restricted to using no more than OpenGL V1.0 and only use PyOpenGL and Pygame. 
+So, no Numpy, no PyGLM, fixed pipelines, no custom shaders, and each vertex had to send individually to the GPU.
+At first, I was disappointed but I had a lot of optimization challenges that made me have fun figuring out how to still make the 3D game I've always to make!
+I searched on GitHub and did not find any 3D FPS game using this version of OpenGL (at least not listed publicly). 
+I ended up implementing almost everything from scratch. 
+I used Interpolation (bilinear interpolation) to interpolate the terrain’s height (y) at any given (x-z) coordinates so that entities can move on 64*64 pixels heightmap-based terrain smoothly to reduce the number of triangles. I also implemented for this game an animation system that used obj sequence animations, then optimized it to load faster, and consume 95% less disk space compared to the unoptimized form.
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+ - The source code of the game:  [https://github.com/m-agour/MummyIsland]
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+My journey to GSoC22
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+I first knew about GSoC from a friend last year. I then went through the organization's list, I saw a lot of familiar names such as Anki, Godot, 
+. . 
+Then I glanced at the Python software foundation. I had to go in and scroll through the sub-organizations only to come across FURY. The luminous horse got my attention I felt the connection right away.
+I went through the docs of both FURY and VTK.  
+I tried to contribute back then by adding the option to use FXAA anti-aliasing algorithm for the window (I didn’t notice it has already been implemented as a method for the window). 
+So instead,  I implemented the first mentioned shader in the GSoC 21’s project idea “**Add new shader effects**” (the fire shader) in GLSL using Gaussian noise. 
+The result is shown in the videos: 
+[https://youtu.be/tj1aysPqJpY]
+[https://youtu.be/CQY9c3oGJ3E]). 
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+The next step was to implement the shader to make it work with FURY actors but then I knew I'm having a mandatory training required by the University last summer. I was disappointed and I decided to postpone till next year's GSoC.
+This year when the accepted organizations were pronounced I didn't bother to go through the list since I knew exactly which organization I'm going to apply for. So I just went directly to read the Ideas list for FURY.
+The Keyframe animation system was the perfect fit! I've been arount keyframes for half of my life to even participate the required features before I read them! I then started to contribute and one contribution led to the other one.
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+Code contributions:
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+1. [https://github.com/fury-gl/fury/pull/552]
+2. [https://github.com/fury-gl/fury/pull/555]
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+The day I got accepted
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+I made it my mission for the day to keep watching the email for any changes. When It got 8:00 pm in the Cairo timezone I didn't see any changes. So I started searching for any news whatsoever and I couldn't find any. 
+The GSoC dashboard doesn't say anything (story of my life. I didn't even get any promotions or spam mails that day). That's when I gave up. but, something doesn't feel right! right? I went again to check the dashboard to find that my proposal is accepted. but I can't even believe it. I'd better not jump to conclusions and wait for the official email before celebrating. shortly after, I received the official email It was a whole new feeling I never experienced ever before! I reached a whole new level of happiness.