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 			<h1><IMG style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 65px" alt="MeshLab" src="meshlab.png"></h1>
 			<p class="body">MeshLab is an open source portable and extendible system for the 
-				processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes.
-				<br>
+				processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes.	<br>
+				
 				The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small 
 				unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for 
 				editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of 
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 					FGT</a> course of the <A href="www.di.unipi.it">Computer Science</A> department 
 				of University of Pisa and most of the code (~15k lines) of the first versions 
 				was written by a handful of <A href="#Developers">students</A>. &nbsp;</p>
-			<p class="body"><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149444"></a></p>
-			<p class="body"><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149444">Download
-				</a><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149444">
-					Latest Version (22/6/2006)&nbsp;<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic"> 
-V0.7</span></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">&nbsp;</span></p>
+			<p class="body"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149444"></a></p>
+			<p class="body"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149444">Download
+				</a><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149444">
+					Latest Version (9 November 2006)&nbsp;<b><i> V0.8 </i></b></a></p>
 			<br>
 			<p class="body">Remember that, whenever you use MeshLab in a official/commercial 
-				project, you should feel <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligation">
-					morally obligated </a>
-				<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic"></span>to:</p>
+				project, you should : </p>
+				
 			<ul>
 				<li>
 					Explicitly cite in your work that you have used MeshLab a tool developed with 
-					the support of the <a href="http://www.epoch-net.org/">Epoch</a>
-				NOE,
+					the support of the <a href="http://www.epoch-net.org/">Epoch</a> NOE,
 				<li>
 					Post a couple of lines in the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=499532">
-						users' forum</a> describing the project where MeshLab was used.
+					users' forum</a> describing the project where MeshLab was used.
 				</li>
 			</ul>
 			<h2><a name="Features"></a>Features</h2>
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 				Interactive selection and deletion of portion of the mesh. Even for large 
 				models.
 				<LI>
-				Input/output in many formats (PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS)
-				<li>
-					Extendible plugins based architecture, writing new mesh processing functions, 
-					colorization filters and support for different file formats is quite easy! Look 
-					at<a href="http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/filter.html"> Filter-PlugIn Sample</a>
-					or <a href="http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/meshio.html">MeshIO-PlugIn Sample</a>
-				<li>
-					Cleaning Filters:
+				<b>Input/output</b> in many formats: <b>PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS and COLLADA</b>
+				<li> 
+				Mesh <b>Cleaning</b> Filters:
 					<ul>
-						<li>
-							removal of duplicated, unreferenced vertices, null faces
+						<li> removal of duplicated, unreferenced vertices, null faces
+						<li> removal of small isolated components
+						<li> coherent normal unification and flipping
+						<li> erasing of non manifold faces
+						<li> automatic filling of small holes 
 						</li>
 					</ul>
+				<li> 
+					<b>Remeshing</b> filters:
 					<ul>
-						<li>
-						subdivision filters (midpoint, loop and butterfly)
-						<li>
-							coherent normal unification and flipping
+						<li> High quality edge collapse simplfication
+						<li> Surface from points (a ball pivoting variant)
+						<li> Subdivision surfaces (loop and butterfly)
+						<li> Smoothing and fairing filters
 						</li>
 					</ul>
 				<li>
-				OpenGL Shader based rendering (write your own shader!) compatible with Shader 
+					Various <b>Colorization/inspection</b> filters
+					<ul>
+						<li> Gaussian and mean curvature
+						<li> Border edges
+						<li> Non two-manifold edges
+						<li> Self intersecting faces 
+						</li>
+					</ul>
+				</li>	
+				<li>
+					OpenGL Shader based rendering (write your own shader!) compatible with Typhoon Lab's Shader 
 				Designer
+				</li>
 				<li>
 				Large rendering (up to 16k x 16k) for high quality printing
-				<li>
-					Various Colorization/inspecting Filters
-					<ul>
-						<li>
-						Gaussian and mean curvature
-						<li>
-						Border edges
-						<li>
-							Non two-manifold faces
-						</li>
-					</ul>
 				<LI>
 					The history of the all performed cleaning/editing actions can be re-played on 
 					different meshes or saved and for archival purposes.
 				</LI>
+				<LI>
+					Extendible plugins based architecture, writing new mesh processing functions, 
+					colorization filters and support for different file formats is quite easy! Look 
+					at <a href="http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/filter.html"> Filter-PlugIn Sample</a>
+					or <a href="http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/meshio.html"> MeshIO-PlugIn Sample</a>
+
 			</ul>
 			Bug reports and feature requests should be filed using the sourceforge <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=149444">
 				service -&gt;</a><br>
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 			<table style="WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left" cellSpacing="2" cellPadding="2" border="1">
 				<tbody>
 					<tr>
-						<td colSpan="2">Snapshots taken from MeshLab v 0.7
+						<td colSpan="2">Snapshots taken from MeshLab v 0.8	</td>
+					</tr>
+					<tr>
+						<td>
+						<A href="SnapMeshLab.SmoothTS1.png"><IMG alt="" src="SnapMeshLab.SmoothTS1.small.jpg"></A> 
+						<A href="SnapMeshLab.SmoothTS2.png"><IMG alt="" src="SnapMeshLab.SmoothTS2.small.jpg"></A> 
+						<A href="SnapMeshLab.SmoothTS3.png"><IMG alt="" src="SnapMeshLab.SmoothTS3.small.jpg"></A> 
 						</td>
+						<td>
+						An example of automatic hole filling. All the holes with a boundary smaller than 
+						a given threshold (30 edges in this case) are autmatically filled.
+						</td>
+					</tr>
+					<tr>
+						<td>
+						<A href="SnapMeshLab.HoleFill1.png"><IMG alt="" src="SnapMeshLab.HoleFill1.small.jpg"></A> 
+						<A href="SnapMeshLab.HoleFill2.png"><IMG alt="" src="SnapMeshLab.HoleFill2.small.jpg"></A> 
+						</td>
+						<td>
+						An example of automatic hole filling. All the holes with a boundary smaller than 
+						a given threshold (30 edges in this case) are autmatically filled.
+						</td>
+					</tr>
+					<tr>
+						<td>
+						<A href="SnapMeshLab.Quadric1.png"><IMG alt="" src="SnapMeshLab.Quadric1.small.jpg"></A> 
+						<A href="SnapMeshLab.Quadric2.png"><IMG alt="" src="SnapMeshLab.Quadric2.small.jpg"></A> 
+						<A href="SnapMeshLab.Quadric3.png"><IMG alt="" src="SnapMeshLab.Quadric3.small.jpg"></A>
+						</td>
+						<td>An example of the high quality edgecollapse simplification algorithm based on quadric error metrics. A ~1.000.000 triangle mesh (left) is simplified to 100.000 (center) and then up to 10.000 triangles, while maintaining most of its geometric features.
+						</td>
+					</tr>
+					<tr>
+						<td colSpan="2">Snapshots taken from MeshLab v 0.7	</td>
 					</tr>
 					<tr>
 						<td><A href="Edzna_edit_0.png"><IMG alt="" src="Edzna_edit_0.small.png"></A> <A href="Edzna_edit_1.png">
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 			<h2><a name="History"></a>History</h2>
 			<UL>
 				<LI>
+					<i>09/11/2006</i> V 0.8 Release
+					<span class="shown" id="_no_V08">
+						<font size="-1"><A href="javascript:showNow('_V08');hideNow('_no_V08');"><b>[details]</b></A></font>
+					</span><span class="hidden" id="_V08"><A href="javascript:showNow('_no_V08');hideNow('_V08');"><b>[hide]</b></A></FONT> <font color="#777777" size="-1">
+<pre>	
+	** New features **
+	New High Quality Quadric Based Simplification filter
+	Support of Collada file format (read and write)
+	Support for 3d models reconstructed by the Epoch 3d Web Service
+	Support for point based models
+	- Computation of implicit surface normals
+	- Surface reconstruction (a ball pivoting variant)
+	First command line version
+	Filter history recording
+
+	** Corrected Bugs **
+	No more sticky trackball
+	Better OBJ and OFF loading/saving
+	Better control of lighting in Shaders and debugged/improved most of shaders.
+
+	** Known Bugs **
+	- Collada support for non triangulated meshes is missing
+	- Surface reconstruction from points lacks of robustness... 
+	- Quadric simplification does not optimize texture coords during simplification
+	- Filter recording and re-playing still buggy.
+</pre>
+						</font></span>
+				<LI>				
 					<i>22/06/2006</i> V 0.7 Release
 					<span class="shown" id="_no_V07">
 						<font size="-1"><A href="javascript:showNow('_V07');hideNow('_no_V07');"><b>[details]</b></A></font>
-					</span><span class="hidden" id="_V07"><A href="javascript:showNow('_no_V07');hideNow('_V07');"><b>[hide]</b></A></FONT> <font color="#777777" size="-1"><pre>	Selection and Editing of large meshes is now possible!
+					</span><span class="hidden" id="_V07"><A href="javascript:showNow('_no_V07');hideNow('_V07');"><b>[hide]</b></A></FONT> <font color="#777777" size="-1">
+<pre>
+	Selection and Editing of large meshes is now possible!
 	Recording and replaying of history of filters 
 	Filter classes restructured (now filters are assigned to different submenus)
 	Rewrote of  Clustering simplification algorithms
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 	Better choice of initial modes
 	Automatic Installer for windows
 	No more intrusive progress bars
-	</pre>
+</pre>
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 				<LI>
 					<i>12/03/2006</i> V 0.6 Release
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 			<p class="menu"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149444">Download 
-					V0.7</a></p>
+					V0.8</a></p>
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 			<p class="menu"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/meshlab/">Sourceforge page</a></p>
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