CIBC:Documentation:SCIRun:ReleaseNotes:3.0

Release Notes for SCIRun/BioPSE Version 3.0

SCIRun Version 3.0

Release date: December 12, 2006

Includes: SCIRun (Core), Packages (BioPSE, Teem, MatlabInterface, ModelCreation)

The make system has been converted to CMAKE (See Installation Guide for details).
The ThirdParty installation now includes the following packages: LibPNG, LibXML, FreeType, and Glew. All are required for SCIRun.
The following packages have been removed from ThirdParty: Xerces, ImageMagick.
ThirdParty can now be compiled using the same script for all supported operating systems

Added support for Intel based Macintosh machines.
Discontinued support for OS X 10.3 or lower (SCIRun now requires the execution of static constructors upon loading a library).
SCIRun is now supported under Windows XP as well (with the exception of the interactive Matlab modules, which is supported by OS 10.4 and later)

The volume renderer supports now a label map (segmentation) to select a specific 2D colormap
The volume renderer has been rewritten to support larger volumes and automatic bricking if not enough memory is available
The viewer now supports the visualization of degenerate meshes
Data located on cell elements is now shown in the viewer using the colormap
SCIRun now has a model underlying each mesh type of how to interpolate data between nodes.
Added support for bilinear and trilinear interpolation.
Added support for visualization of non linear mesh types (Currently limited to visualization).

Finite element support has been completely rewritten and now both anisotropic as well as isotropic models are supported for each mesh class available in SCIRun.
A new module has been added that allows better creating Diriclet Boundary Conditions.

The network editor now blocks all editing while a network is executing (In the next release we will enable this feature again if scheduling problems have been fixed).
Improved synchroniztion of Viewer and Network.
The network editor is now able to save relative filenames for increased portablity between systems.
Save As now displays the current name.
The network fileformat has been ported to XML. The new network files are now called .srn instead of the old .net files.

Documentation has been merged over into a Wiki, so users can help updating and documenting the software system.

Performance issues with Dense and Sparse matrix multiplications have been fixed.
Performance issues with isosurface generation have been fixed