Version 0.2.1

Version 0.2.1, released March 23, 2008, removes the last dependence on LAPACK, which was already barely used, and which caused the build procedure to fail after a recent change of CLAPACK. It is otherwise identical to version 0.2.

Version 0.2

The main improvement in SVR Version 0.2, released February 12, 2008, is that it compiles on machines using 64-bit pointers, and can thus create substantially larger meshes than could version 0.1. For many modern machines, if your compiler does not default to 64-bit mode, you can use the --with-wordsize=64 configure option to enable it. If you accidentally built in 32-bit mode and wish to switch to 64-bit mode (or vice-versa), you should make distclean before reconfiguring.

Version 0.2 also supports setting the radius-edge quality criterion rho smaller than before. In theory, it can be set to any value strictly greater than 1.0; in practice, numerical issues arise with rho < 1.5 on the bunny. Rescaling can help; we will address this better in the next release. In order to support this, SVR puts a bounding box around the input that is provably large enough.

SVR no longer installs dynamically-linked libraries. You may therefore move the svr binary around at will, and ship it independent of all else.

Options processing has changed to be more GNU-like: for example, --rho=2.0 rather than the old style -rho 2.0. You may also use a single dash at your option.

Version 0.2 also incorporates various minor bug fixes and performance improvements.


Historical versions are available: 0.1, 0.2.
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Last modified by Benoît Hudson
Thu Mar 27 19:00:47 CDT 2008