v0.8.0

Quick Overview

• New Physically Based Rendering (PBR) added. It includes anisotropic rotation and index of refraction among other material properties.
• New Principled BRDF shader unique to FURY added. BRDF stands for bidirectional reflectance distribution function.
• VTK 9.1.0 defined as minimum version.
• Continuous Integration (CI) platform updated.
• New actors added (Rhombicuboctahedron, Pentagonal Prism).
• New UI layouts added (Vertical and Horizontal).
• New module fury.molecular added.
• New module fury.lib added. Module improved loading speed.
• Demos added and updated.
• Documentation updated.

Details:

The following 12 authors contributed 500 commits.

• Anand Shivam
• Antriksh Misri
• Bruno Messias
• Eleftherios Garyfallidis
• Javier Guaje
• Marc-Alexandre Côté
• Meha Bhalodiya
• Praneeth Shetty
• PrayasJ
• Sajag Swami
• Serge Koudoro
• Shivam Anand

We closed a total of 81 issues, 34 pull requests, and 47 regular issues;

What's Changed

• Added Horizontal Layout to layout module by @antrikshmisri in #480
• Added Vertical Layout to layout module by @antrikshmisri in #479
• Fine-tuning of the OpenGL state by @devmessias in #432
• Peak representation improvements by @guaje in #433
• Animated Surfaces by @SunTzunami in #362
• Add primitive and actor for pentagonal prism with test by @mehabhalodiya in #474
• GSoC blogs 2021 by @SunTzunami in #493
• Add python3.9 for our CI's by @skoudoro in #449
• Fix material docstrings, improved standard parameters and improved materials application support by @guaje in #488
• Fix disk position outside the slider line by @guaje in #498
• Added GSoC blog posts for remaining weeks by @antrikshmisri in #496
• Method to process and load sprite sheets by @antrikshmisri in #491
• Molecular module by @SunTzunami in #452
• Update the way we import external libraries by using only the necessary modules by @skoudoro in #470
• Update molecular module import by @skoudoro in #504
• update tutorial import by @skoudoro in #506
• [FIX] Mesa installation by @skoudoro in #513
• [FIX] Radio button and checkbox tests by @skoudoro in #514
• Adding Rhombicuboctahedron actor by @PrayasJ in #516
• Changing how we do things with our test suite. by @Garyfallidis in #515
• Principled material by @guaje in #519
• Pytest patch by @skoudoro in #518
• Added rotation along the axis in Solar System Animations example by @xtanion in #520
• Snapshot flipping bug fix by @Garyfallidis in #521
• [WIP] Add debugging CI Tools by @skoudoro in #524
• Deprecate and rename label to vector_text by @skoudoro in #507
• adding numpy_to_vtk_image_data method to utility by @ganimtron-10 in #509
• [FIX] Allow sphere actor to use faces/vertices without casting issues. In addition, update versioning system (versioneer). by @skoudoro in #527
• [FIX] remove update_user_matrix from text3d by @skoudoro in #534
• devmessias gsoc posts part 2: weeks 09, 10 and 11 by @devmessias in #503
• Remove and replace vtkactor from docstring by @skoudoro in #532
• [ENH] Add missing shaders block by @skoudoro in #535
• Remove VTK_9_PLUS flag by @skoudoro in #536
• Adding Anisotropy and Clear coat to PBR material by @guaje in #523
• Release preparation 0.8.0 by @skoudoro in #538

New Contributors

• @mehabhalodiya made their first contribution in #474
• @PrayasJ made their first contribution in #516
• @xtanion made their first contribution in #520

Full Changelog: v0.7.1...v0.8.0