NEWS

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isocubes 2022-08-04 (2022-08-04)

• New single-pass, deterministic visibility checking algorithm.
  • Replaces the prior limited-depth, iterative technique.
  • 4x faster
  • Determines correct visibility for all cubes in scene

isocubes 2022-07-30 (2022-07-30)

• Wrote a cheap, but inaccurate colour darkening function cheap_darken()
  • Quite a bit faster than colorspace::darken()
  • Removed colorspace as a dependency

isocubes 2022-07-10 (2022-07-10)

• Added a light argument to specify lighting direction
  • renamed fill_left and fill_right to fill_left and fill_right respectively

isocubes 2022-06-23 (2022-06-23)

• Replaced max_y argument with its inverse ysize
• Added Signed Distance Fields (sdf_*()) for
  • object creation
  • object transformation
  • object combinations

isocubes 2022-06-21 (2022-06-21)

• coords_heightmap()
  • Corrected an accidental matrix transposition.
  • Added flipx, flipy and ground arguments for easier orientation adjustments.
• isocubesGrob update:
  • Renamed args to x and y.
• Updated README examples

isocubes 2022-06-20 (2022-06-20)

• Initial release

isocubes 0.1.5.9009

• [9000] Update to focus on SDF. Isocubes are used as an example renderer
• [9001] Moved SDF/CSG to another package
• [9002] Allow different coordinate systems
• [9003] Faster rendering with viewports for offset
• [9004] add demo data. tidy.
• [9005] fix compatability issue with output from lofifonts
• [9006] Faster colour handling
• [9007] Visibility check now done in C. Preparing the way for per-face visibility check
• [9008] Turn off default visibility check when creating heightmap
• [9009] Allow cube border color to be set to the same as face color