CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, meshalyzer uses a vMAJOR.PATCH versioning scheme. We increase the

• MAJOR version when we add functionality, and the
• PATCH version when we make backwards compatible bug fixes

[2.1] -

• vertices by default are now only drawn on displayed surfaces and connections
• auxilliary grids now have dead data
• new colour map Kindlmann
• threaded dta reader replaced with on-demand reader

[2.0] - 2020-28-06

• manipulation of meshes improved by completely rewriting rendering to use Vertex Buffer Objects
• Lighting
  • lighting direction controlled by trackball
  • better control of object coloring
  • eye and world lighting direction specification
  • reverse direction button
• Clipping
  • plane selection radio buttons removed (just click)
  • copy/paste of orientations
  • choose screen plane as clipping plane
• Adjacent Ln elements in .elem file which share endpoints are joined in 3D
• Isolines
  • When rendered in 3D, lines are formed with smoothly joined segments
  • filtering by coalescing close points
  • match colors button to match isolines with the number of colour used to display mesh data
• more PNG metadata added for auxgrids and vector data
• axes drawn as coloured 3D cylinders
• vertex selection only possible when vertices are displayed
• Colour scales added
  • divergent Purple-orange
  • cyclic Twilight

[1.0] - 2020-23-06

• Initial and final release for immediate mode OpenGL rendering (pre 3.3)