GSoC Final Weeks
Final Weeks I’ve been juggling college work and the final stretch of the project, so things have been busy. My mentor and I agreed that the elastic-pendulum-cone example will be the final PR for th...
Final Weeks I’ve been juggling college work and the final stretch of the project, so things have been busy. My mentor and I agreed that the elastic-pendulum-cone example will be the final PR for th...
WrappingCone Status Me and my mentor Hwayeon, had a longer sync-up meeting this week to discuss everything in more detail. She told me to add the complete worked out math of the cable car model an...
After a brief slowdown due to the start of college and on-campus internship drives (in which I secured an internship with DE Shaw & Co for Summer of 2026!), progress on SymPy’s WrappingCone is ...
Highlights Both PRs finally merged in a single day Setup a new direction to continue Merging the PRs After some internal discussion between my immediate mentor Hwayeon and Jason, the two ...
Highlights Polished two open pull requests and added new unit tests. Updated point_on_surface to return a symbolic expression instead of a boolean, per Jason Moore’s suggestion. Refactored ...
A Better Approach with Lagrange’s Method My mentor was incredibly helpful and shared a much cleaner version of the example. One of the biggest improvements was switching from Kane’s Method to Lagra...
Update on the WrappingSphere Example The intial PR that I drafted which tried to integrate the WrappingSphere into the pre-existing biomechanical model example was closed, as explained in my previ...
Wrapping up the WrappingCylinder example After making more review changes to the example, and painfully creating an svg image of the model in Figma, my mentors were satisfied with my work and the ...
Discussions and Change of Plans After a brief discussion with Jason Moore on my PR #28098 and talking with my mentor, we decided to first focus on verifying and testing the wrapping geometry objec...
Meet with Mentor The primary mentor assigned to me for my GSoC project is Hwayeon Kang, a well-established contributor and maintainer of SymPy who started off as a GSoC 2024 contributor too! We pl...