[Haskell-cafe] Open-source projects for beginning Haskell students?

[Michel Kuhlmann]

Hi Brent,
I am myself a haskell-beginner. Too, trying to come to terms with
Applicative and Monad. Nevertheless, I forked [1] @tomahawkin's `devsurf`
library, with the aim of extending it to triangular-mesh and point-cloud
manipulation library.

There are lot's of things I still miss. For example:

    * Point-cloud/mesh simplification
    * Slicing of meshes/point-clouds (taking cross-sections)
    * Interpolation from point-cloud to mesh
    * Merging different meshes
    * Difference between two meshes, resulting in a diff-mesh
    * ...

Related to that I created a repository for associated executables [3].
The main-program there is `mshConv`, which should convert meshes into
and from different file-formats, analog to fabulous `pandoc`.

There are several things to be done:

    * Proper command-line interface
    * Using Parsec in Readers
    * More Readers
    * More Writers

Currently mesh-conversion could be done in `meshlab` [4]. On the homepage is
also a list with potential Readers and Writers.

I am willing to exchange email, but I do not have the competence of
mentoring or guidance.

Best regards,
Michel

[1] https://www.github.com/tomahawkins/devsurf
[2] https://www.github.com/michelk/devsurf
[3] https://www.github.com/michelk/devsurf-bin
[4] http://www.meshlab.org