meshlab/docs/history.txt
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VCGLib http://vcg.sf.net
Visual and Computer Graphics Library
MeshLab http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ o o
An extendible mesh processor o o
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Copyright(C) 2005, 2006 \/)\/
Visual Computing Lab /\/|
ISTI - Italian National Research Council |
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All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt)
for more details.
All rights reserved.
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- Meshlab v0.8
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** 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.
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- Meshlab v0.7 22/06/06
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** NEW FEATURES/PATCHES **
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
Shaders debugged
Better choice of initial modes
Automatic Installer for windows
No more intrusive progress bars
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- Meshlab v0.6 12/3/06
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** NEW FEATURES/PATCHES **
* General issues
- Slight code restyling in order to reduce the lines of code
- Command line execution now works correctly
- Better managing of optional mesh datas
- Better color initialization
* Plugin System
- Decoration:
Thicked axes with arrows and axes names
Quoted Box
Normals restyled
- Filters:
Sub-division surface
Remove triangles above threshold
Apply Transformation
Color non-manifold
- Colorize:
Curvature code restyled
RMS curvature
Absolute curvature
By Quality
Added restore color function
- Shaders:
Import code restyled and optimized
Runtime dynamic dialog created to change shader properties
- Import/Export:
.3DS Import/Export full supported (via lib3ds)
* User Interface
- Reimplemented double-sided lighting
- Added some new shortcuts
- Optimizations in ChangeFOV (Vertigo)
- Solved OpenGL bugs on FLAT_LINES
- Solved bug in trackball visualization
- Light direction can be rotated
- Better scalable fonts
- Quick help on screen (Press F1)
- About plugin restyled
** KNOWN BUGS **
* User Interface
None reported
* Plugin System
None reported
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- Meshlab v0.5 13/1/06
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** NEW FEATURES **
* General issues
- Corrected Trackball panning
- Safer initialization of color data
- Better memory management (removed HUGE memory leaks...)
- Meshlab icon and logo
- About plugin Dialog
* Plugin System
- Filters:
Invert Faces
- Colorize:
Logging mesh curvature info
Rewritten code to follow coding conventions
Mean Curvature
Color non Manifold (now sets colorPerVert)
Moved mean and gaussian curvature functions into color_curvature.h
- Normals restyled
- Import/Export:
Managing error messages if saving fails
.3DS Imporer first rough implementation
.3DS Export Standardization, saves vertexes and faces + color per face
.3DS Export introduced materials managing
.OBJ Import solved some bugs during file import
.OBJ Export higly improved speed
* User Interface
- Clipping planes now can be moved via CTRL+SHIFT+mouse wheel
- Vertigo FOV with CTRL+mouse wheel
- Icons restyled (transparent)
- Changed snapshot toolbar icon
- Reapply last filter command
- Reload command
- About dialog restyled
- CTRL+Tab switch to next opened window
- CTRL+F4 close current file
- Fonts ok
** KNOWN BUGS/MISSING FEATURES **
* Plugin System
- Import/Export 3DS not working properly (textures not supported yet)
- Missing edit commands
- Shaders have to be scaled to work well
* User Interface
- Font resizing ?
- About plugin dialog to be restyled
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- Meshlab v0.4
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** NEW FEATURES **
This is a maintenance version. No feature were added but improved existing ones.
* Plugin System
- Improved PluginSystem
- Improved shaders support (based on Typhoon Labs shaders)
- Filtering: Customizable filters thru dialogs
- Filters:
Laplacian smooth
MidPoint Subdivision
Re-orient
Decimator
- Editing (No editing tools available)
- Colorize:
Self intersection
Border
- Import/Export:
obj File Format (Customizable export thru dialog)
off File Format
stl File Format
3ds File Format
- Decoration:
Show Axis
Show Box Corners
* User Interface
- Bugless progress bar
- About Plugin dialog
- Logging
** KNOWN BUGS/MISSING FEATURES **
* Plugin:
- No texture support in shaders
- No Editing tools
- Info in shader Plugin
* User Interface
- Font resizing
- Clipping issues
- CTRL + Shortcuts doesn't work properly
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- Meshlab v0.3
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** NEW FEATURES **
* Plugin System
- Complete restyling of plugin architecture
- Color: None, Per Vertex, Per Face
- Color: Support for shaders (wow!). Provided toon shader sample.
- Filtering: Remove Null Faces
- Filtering: Butterfly & Loop optimized
- Decorize: New plugin class
- Import/Export: Obj file format integrated on standard user interface
* User Interface
- Info Panel:
Showing some mesh info (numTri&numFaces)
Showing fps
- Shortcut for some frequently used actions
- Trackball hidable
- Option dialog:
Background colors (Top&Bottom)
Log Area color
- Progress bar
- RenderModes: Textures
- Fullscreen
- Cycle thru opened windows with Next button
- About dialog
** KNOWN BUGS/MISSING FEATURES **
* Plugin:
- Loop & Butterfly don't work for every file
- ProgressBar synchronization
* User Interface
- Improve logging features
- Font resizing
- No action under menu Render->Texture
- Clipping issues
- About Plugins Dialog still working on
- Buggy proggressbar and trackball
- OpenGL bugs on Flat Lines render mode
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- Meshlab v0.2
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** NEW FEATURES **
* Added Plugin Support
- Rendering: Normals
- Color: Gaussian Curvature
- Filtering: Butterfly and Loop Subdivision surface
- Filtering: Remove duplicate and unreferenced vertexes
- Import/Export: Obj file format
* User Interface
- Logging
- MRU File List
- Toolbars & Menus
- Availables renderModes:
BoundingBox
Points
Wireframe
Hidden lines
Lines + Flat shading
Flat shading
Smooth shading
- Lighting Modes:
One/Double Side
Fancy Lights
None
** KNOWN BUGS/MISSING FEATURES **
* Plugin:
- Gaussian Curvature color mode not showed at all
- Import/Export Obj doesn't work as well
* User interface
- Logging still rough
- Fancy Lighting not work properly
- No texture mode under menu Render->Texture
- Clipping issues
- Messy trackball
- About Dialog contains trash infos!!
- About Plugins Dialog still working on
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- Meshlab v0.1
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* 2005/11/15 First draft