Revision: 55738
http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/55738
Author: brlcad
Date: 2013-06-13 15:38:51 +0000 (Thu, 13 Jun 2013)
Log Message:
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after way too many revisions and rewrites, lock in on a reasonable showcase
summary for this release. the emphasis is intentionally on archer though there
are a lot of other major changes worth noting too. plan is to highlight some
of them in patch updates (e.g., affinity, lod wireframes, vol/SA calcs).
Modified Paths:
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brlcad/trunk/NEWS
Modified: brlcad/trunk/NEWS
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--- brlcad/trunk/NEWS 2013-06-13 15:34:14 UTC (rev 55737)
+++ brlcad/trunk/NEWS 2013-06-13 15:38:51 UTC (rev 55738)
@@ -10,9 +10,31 @@
changes made. See document footer for additional details.
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---- 2013-05-27 Release 7.24.0 ---
+--- 2013-06-13 Release 7.24.0 ---
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+This major update to BRL-CAD comes after nearly a full year of
+development. This is the alpha release unveiling of Archer/MGED, a
+preliminary interface update to BRL-CAD's graphical geometry editor.
+As alpha software, this new MGED prototype aims to provide functional
+feature parity with the antecedent MGED interface while introducing
+various changes. Included is an integrated graphical tree view, a
+single window framework, drag-and-drop geometry editing, information
+panels, shortcut buttons, improved polygonal mesh and 2D sketch
+editing, level-of-detail wireframes, NURBS shaded display support, and
+much more. Prior to upcoming beta testing where the emphasis will
+predominantly be on stability and usability, this alpha status
+solicits feedback from the community on capability and features.
+
+This release also includes various improvements to BRL-CAD's ray
+tracing infrastructure including CPU thread affinity locking for
+faster performance, more consistent grazing hit behavior, expanded
+volume and surface area calculations, numerous bug fixes, and more
+robust NURBS evaluation. Following BRL-CAD's interface deprecation
+policy (see CHANGES file), the Jove text editor is no longer being
+bundled. Numerous converters receive robustness improvements
+including the STEP, Patch, and 3DM importers.
+
* improved gqa performance on parallel SMP hardware - Richard Weiss
* fixed bounding box size calculation for pipe geometry - Bob Parker
* improved help option consistency across numerous tools - Carl Moore
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