VisPy v0.7.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-06-30 // almost 3 years ago
  • โœจ Enhancements:

    • ๐Ÿ”„ Change Visual GL state so it is only set if drawing #2111 (djhoese)
    • โž• Add handling of NaNs in ImageVisual #2106 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improve specular light in phong shading #2091 (almarklein)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix SceneCanvas Node leaking reference to itself #2089 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improve infinity/NaN handling in VolumeVisual and ImageVisual clim calculations #2085 (almarklein)
    • ๐Ÿ”„ Change builtin colormaps to all be instances #2066 (djhoese)
    • โž• Add setter for colorbar label text #2057 (djhoese)
    • โž• Add average intensity projection (average) rendering mode to VolumeVisual #2055 (alisterburt)
    • โž• Add attenuated MIP (attenuated_mip) rendering mode to VolumeVisual #2047 (alisterburt)
    • โž• Add minimum intensity projection (minip) shading to VolumeVisual #2046 (alisterburt)
    • โž• Add more options to control the length of normals in MeshNormals visual #2043 (asnt)
    • โž• Add visual for displaying mesh normals #2031 (asnt)
    • Identify and expose Phong shading parameters in mesh ShadingFilter #2029 (asnt)
    • โž• Add the ability to make the wireframe transparent with the wireframe filter #2026 (asnt)
    • โž• Add ability to show only a mesh wireframe with the wireframe filter #2025 (asnt)
    • โšก๏ธ Optimize SurfacePlotVisual when only color is updated #2002 (djhoese)
    • โž• Add PySide6 backend #1978 (Kusefiru)
    • โž• Add networkx layout to GraphVisual #1941 (cvanelteren)
    • Overhaul vispy website #1931 (djhoese)
    • โž• Add 'texture_format' kwarg to ImageVisual for floating point textures #1920 (djhoese)
    • โž• Add Tkinter backend #1918 (ThenTech)
    • โž• Add 'texture_format' kwarg to VolumeVisual for floating point textures #1912 (djhoese)
    • Let camera link be limited to specified properties #1886 (povik)
    • Speed up arcball and turntable cameras #1884 (povik)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix jupyter lab extension to use newest vispy.js #1866 (mjlbach)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Allow for 2D X and Y coordinates in SurfacePlotVisual #1863 (dvsphanindra)
    • โž• Add ImageVisual gamma and smarter in-shader contrast limits #1844 (tlambert03)
    • Implement volume contrast limits in shader, add gamma #1842 (tlambert03)
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Make demos easier to switch to PySide2 from PyQt5 #1835 (fedepell)
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Use meshio fall back for reading and writing mesh files #1824 (nschloe)
    • โž• Add nearest interpolation to volume visual #1803 (sofroniewn)
    • โœ‚ Remove isosurface green color in VolumeVisual #1802 (sofroniewn)
    • โž• Add "transparent" color to internal color_dict #1794 (HagaiHargil)
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Make all AxisVisual parameters easily updatable after instantiation #1792 (tlambert03)
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Make it possible to get and set the face, bold, and italic properties of Text via properties #1777 (astrofrog)
    • โœ… Check for GUI eventloop when testing for jupyter kernel #1714 (hmaarrfk)
    • Add lines_adjacency and line_strip_adjacency OpenGL primitives. #1705 (proto3)
    • โž• Add ability to pass webGL context arguments for notebook backend canvas initialization #1693 (klarh)
    • โž• Add mesh wireframe filter #1689 (asnt)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Allow changing spectrogram parameters after it has been drawn #1670 (cimbi)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix event loop detection triggering on blocked events #1590 (kne42)
    • Replace Grid Widget cassowary solver with kiwisolver #1501 (MatthieuDartiailh)
    • โž• Add ShadingFilter for meshes by separating it from MeshVisual #1463 (asnt)
    • ๐Ÿ”จ Refactor MeshVisual indexing for easier and more flexible filter creation #1462 (asnt)
    • Changed vispy.plot.Fig.__init__() to allow passing 'keys' argument #1449 (jimofthecorn)
    • โž• Add TextureFilter for adding textures to MeshVisuals #1444 (asnt)

    ๐Ÿ›  Fixed bugs:

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix VolumeVisual artifacts with mip/minip if nothing was found #2115 (brisvag)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix inconsistent picking behavior regarding depth testing #2110 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix grid solver not updating variables when height/width changed #2100 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix alpha handling in 'translucent' Visuals and add 'alpha' keyword argument to Canvas.render #2090 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix PanZoomCamera 'center' property not updating view #2079 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix VolumeVisual bounds representing the wrong axis #2070 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ make agg lines write correct depth value #2063 (almarklein)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix glfw not sizing visuals correctly on initial draw #2059 (djhoese)
    • Dont force selection of gl2 backend #2058 (almarklein)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix typo in double shader #2051 (theGiallo)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix changing mesh shading mode when initially None #2042 (asnt)
    • Prevent translucent window with QOpenGLWidget #2040 (asnt)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix various issues with shading in the MeshVisual #2028 (asnt)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix face normal in cube geometry (create_cube function) #2027 (asnt)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix axis labeling issue when flipped #2022 (Kusefiru)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix TextVisual producing log message about unused uniform #2004 (djhoese)
    • โž• Add workaround for MacOS dlopen #1975 (rayg-ssec)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix data type issue in create_sphere() #1956 (desteemy)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix ImportError on Python 3.9 #1914 (cgohlke)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix ImageVisual not updating color transform after texture update #1911 (tlambert03)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix OpenGL to ctypes type mapping #1883 (cgohlke)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix ImageVisual updating vertex coordinates on every draw #1853 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix GitHub raw file download base URL #1821 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix LinePlotVisual not remembering styles #1807 (tlambert03)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix grid_widget when Fig gets a single element #1101 (gouarin)

    ๐Ÿ”€ Merged pull requests:

    • ๐Ÿ‘ท Replace CI environment variable checks with constants #2119 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ”จ Refactor ImageVisual for easier subclassing #2105 (djhoese)
    • โช Restore ambient light behavior as in v0.6.0 #2088 (asnt)
    • Document OpenGL state presets #2084 (asnt)
    • โž• Add Code of Conduct #2076 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ“‡ Rename all HUSL usages to HSLuv #2061 (djhoese)
    • โœ‚ Remove unused py2/3 compatibility module #2060 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix dead link in shader docstring #2050 (theGiallo)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix website deploy commit message references #2038 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix URL to contributor guide #2032 (asnt)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed multiple code style issues. #1983 (Aaru143)
    • โœ‚ Removed Python 2.7 wrapper on GzipFile #1943 (irajasyed)
    • Replaced bundled 'pypng' (png) dependency with pillow #1934 (Kartik-byte)
    • โœ‚ Remove six dependency #1933 (sgaist)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix typo in examples/basics/gloo/hello_fbo.py #1930 (BioGeek)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix EGL docstring copy/paste error #1921 (BioGeek)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix various numpy deprecation warnings #1913 (GuillaumeFavelier)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix styling issues due to new flake8 version #1864 (djhoese)
    • โšก๏ธ Update vispy.js submodule to 0.3.0 #1837 (djhoese)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix DataBuffer.set_subdata docstring with wrong offset units #1825 (asnt)
    • DOC: Drop installation instructions from readme #1806 (hoechenberger)
    • โž• Add new example for mouse editing/drawing of shapes #1480 (fschill)