Release notes v0.6.0 (2020-07-20)#

Quick Overview#

Added new features: Picking and double-click callback.
Added Signed Distance Field actor.
Added a new UI ComboBox.
Added multiples primitives (Rhombocuboctahedron, …).
Huge improvement of multiple UIs and actors.
Fixed Compatibility with VTK9.
Large documentation update, examples and tutorials (5 new).
Added a blog system.
Increased tests coverage and code quality.

Details#

GitHub stats for 2020/04/09 - 2020/07/20 (tag: v0.5.1)

These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.

The following 9 authors contributed 266 commits.

Eleftherios Garyfallidis
Liam Donohue
Marc-Alexandre Côté
Melina Raglin
Naman Bansal
Serge Koudoro
Soham Biswas
Tushar
Lenix Lobo

We closed a total of 60 issues, 25 pull requests and 35 regular issues; this is the full list (generated with the script tools/github_stats.py):

Pull Requests (25):

PR #241: Adding a Blog system to fury
PR #268: Clip Text Overflow
PR #267: SDF tutorial
PR #250: SDF based FURY actors
PR #246: ComboBox UI tutorial
PR #265: Adding new Earth coordinates tutorial
PR #240: ComboBox2D UI element
PR #169: Use primitive for box, cube, square, rectangle actors
PR #262: Solar System Tutorial
PR #248: Setting Bounding Box for TextBlock2D
PR #263: [NF] Deprecated parameters
PR #127: [CI] add Python 3.8
PR #255: Let VTK delete timers on exit.
PR #233: Picking API and picking tutorial
PR #261: Adding Earth Animation Tutorial
PR #249: Octagonal Prism and Frustum Square Pyramid
PR #258: Updating test of order_transparency for compatibility with vtk 9
PR #259: Updated Step 3 in README.rst
PR #231: Adding Double Click Callback
PR #256: Install ssl certificate for azure pipeline windows
PR #245: [FIX] Compatibility with VTK 9
PR #244: Added new texture tutorial
PR #235: Function to use Hexadecimal color code in Colormap
PR #238: Added Rhombocuboctahedron, 2D and 3D star to primitive
PR #237: update copyright years

Issues (35):

#241: Adding a Blog system to fury
#268: Clip Text Overflow
#264: Re-implementation of Text Overflow in ListBox2D
#267: SDF tutorial
#247: PR idea: create SDF alternatives to FURY primitive actors
#250: SDF based FURY actors
#246: ComboBox UI tutorial
#265: Adding new Earth coordinates tutorial
#240: ComboBox2D UI element
#169: Use primitive for box, cube, square, rectangle actors
#138: Box, cone etc. to work similarly to superquadric
#262: Solar System Tutorial
#248: Setting Bounding Box for TextBlock2D
#263: [NF] Deprecated parameters
#127: [CI] add Python 3.8
#51: Improvements from VTK 8.2.0?
#255: Let VTK delete timers on exit.
#253: Programs with timers hang on exit. [VTK9] [Linux]
#233: Picking API and picking tutorial
#261: Adding Earth Animation Tutorial
#249: Octagonal Prism and Frustum Square Pyramid
#258: Updating test of order_transparency for compatibility with vtk 9
#254: unexpected order transparent behavior [VTK9] [Ubuntu 18.04]
#259: Updated Step 3 in README.rst
#251: Developer installation instructions should describe -e option
#226: Adding double-click event
#231: Adding double-click Callback
#256: Install ssl certificate for azure pipeline windows
#245: [FIX] Compatibility with VTK 9
#244: Added new texture tutorial
#235: Function to use Hexadecimal color code in Colormap
#238: Added Rhombocuboctahedron, 2D and 3D star to primitive
#197: Added Rhombocuboctahedron, 2D and 3D star to primitive
#237: update copyright years
#216: Utiltiy function to use Hexadecimal color code