This post was scheduled way back. But better late than never!

This summer, I had an opportunity to work for a startup 3DPhy.com a.k.a Shulin Automation Pvt. Ltd.. The team was a bunch of awesome coders, designers and product development people. I was hired to develop a python app which would help the team to automate data collection and processing (yeah, it goes by the name). Most of the work in this particular project, I had already done in bits and pieces in my earlier projects, so I completed it pretty fast. The next project that I worked on, exposed me to something entirely new, 3D Graphics. I worked alongside the CTO (Mr. Sumandeep Banerjee) to develop a browser app that gives a virtual 3D tour of real estate properties. The basic product had already been developed and was to be made available to the users, that’s where the browser comes into the picture.

I learnt about the Graphics Pipeline and an integral component of the project, WebGl. It is really interesting how we simulate real world physics with computers. 3D graphics on the web is relatively new and requires modern browsers and a good computer , preferably with a GPU. In most cases, a good WebGL app is CPU and memory intensive as well, therefore it is the responsibility of the coder not to waste the precious CPU cycles and take care of caching. The post will be incomplete without the mention of Javascript which was the heart and soul for this part of the project. I learnt about closures, the evil this (well it’s not evil once you understand it completely),xml and json parsing and used a bunch of javascript libraries. Ah! and how could I forget callbacks. There’ some good news in store related to callbacks. I’ve come to love Javascript ever since. The good thing about using so many libraries(opensource, of course) is that you learn to write better code following the constructs of the library. I also learnt to integrate apache and mod_wsgi for shipping django apps to production.

To sum up, I must say that the internship was a great learning experience and I look forward to similar positions in future.

P.S The product to which I contributed can be seen on the company website.