Release Notes for REVEAL 1.0.6.1
9/11/2014
Reconstruction and Exploratory Visualization: Engineering meets ArchaeoLogy
REVEAL project at the Laboratory for Man/Machine Systems (LEMS) within the
School of Engineering at Brown University.
The REVEAL project is supported by National Science Foundation Grant No.0808718,
III-CXT-Core Computer Vision Research: Promoting Paradigm Shifts in Archaeology.
REVEAL is free software released under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
See License_GPL.txt and License_lesser_GPL.txt in the REVEAL_Analyze directory,
or http://www.gnu.org for license details
Developed with assistance from
* Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina
* Donald Sanders, VIZIN, the Institute for Visualization of History
* Oren Tal and the excavation at Apollonia-Arsuf
* Aren Maier and the excavation at Tel es-Safi
New in Release 1.0.6.1
- WampServer 2.5 and WampServer 2.2 are fully supported.
Mostly consists of Refactoring mySQL interfaces to be compatible with newer
mySQL. PHP PDO for mySQL access.
- Added upload textured models that keeps models with texture files on the server so
they display properly.
New in Release 1.0.6
- Photo to 3D model now has a third output form which is a textured 3d model.
This requires a Java runtime and if one is not there it installs Java 7 32 or 64 bit.
- Multiple Sentinal servers now correctly apportion jobs without duplicating work.
- Fixes and updates to Analyzer, highlights include new 2D and 3D alignment code and
a web-page generator for supporting custom user data.
- Fixes to the Web site.
Release 1.0.5 was a point release for specific users.
(now generalized into Release 1.0.6).
New in Release 1.0.4
REVEAL Web Site
- Attachments tab Thumbnail viewer for viewing attachments and moving them between
objects in the database.
- Data Entry name filter works properly.
- Modifications to support web page generator (for user specific web configuration).
- Internal restructuring to support specific site requirements.
- Reorder Uploads Viewer filter button bar.
REVEAL_Analyze
- 3D Model Alignment - added ability to apply existing model's parameters to new model
to use when uploading a modified version of a model. This only works when the
model file has not been moved, rotated, or scaled in any way.
- Web page generator (for user-specific web configuration.
- Various bug fixes.
REVEAL Install
- Backup versions of settings files renamed with .bak extension to prevent them
being executed.
- Update existing install without affecting existing data (does not change
change the database or photo or model files).
Release 1.0.3 - intermediate version supporting features for specific sites
(now generalized into Release 1.0.4).
New in Release 1.0.2
REVEAL Web Site
- Photos, or other files, can only be uploaded to a new form entry after it has
been saved.
- When photos or other files are uploaded, they can have a tag associated with
them to make the group of files easier to find (for submitting to photo-to-3D,
for instance).
- There is a new filter on the Attachments tab to filter by tag or file name.
Point-Cloud-to-Surface functionality
- There is a new job-type that generates a surface model for an ASCII .PLY point
cloud model. This is especially useful if you have a scanner that creates point
cloud models and you would like to surface them. It can also be used to re-run
a surface model for a photo-generated point cloud (if you checked the box to
upload the photo point cloud).
- If you have point cloud models in some format other than .PLY, you will need to
convert them to an ASCII point cloud model with a tool such as MeshLab, from
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
- The Photo-to-3D job submit dialog now has a Surface tab to submit
point-cloud-to-surface jobs.
- The REVEAL Sentinal now can process point-cloud-to-surface jobs.
- The Photo-to-3D job controller now shows "ssd" point-cloud-to-surface jobs.
Database
- The Windows batch file REVEAL_Dump_Merge.bat is installed in the REVEAL_Analyze
directory. It assists in merging databases from multiple machines. See the
REVEAL_Analyze FAQ's
REVEAL Analyze
- Internal function to assist with generating custom web site forms.
New in Release 1.0.1c
The REVEAL unified install kit.
REVEAL Web Site
- Photo-to-3D job submission
- Photo-to-3D job monitor
- Direct drag-and-drop photos, models, documents onto object Upload tab
- Table tool to add cameras to the database
- Table tool to add entries to the dropdown table lists
- Bug fixes
REVEAL Analyze
- Aligning Plans now uses three points instead of two points and an angle.
- Latitude / Longitude values now supported correctly for plan alignment.
- Latitude / Longitude alignment requires a base Latitude / Longitude in the
database meta data file.
- Plan View has a new "scrub" mode that scrolls through the layers.
- Plan layers can have visibility set to hidden, variable transparency, or
always visible.
- Plan view supports ctrl-drag to move the viewpoint, as well as dragging the
sliders.
- 3D View has three Z Modes - accurate position, scaled vertical position, or
separate layers vertically
- 3D View has a copy functon to copy the currently visible view.
- Saved files - layers, windows, applications, exported plans, exported tables
now default to the user's Documents or My Documents area.
- The database meta data file supports direct file reads or loading files from
a network location.
- Many bug fixes.
- Corrected demo database meta data
Documentation
- Added an end-to-end user's guide.
- Upgraded the installation guide,
REVEAL Demo database
- New and improved demo data. In particular, the dropdown data for attributes.
- New and improved demo files. In particular, sufficient photos to generate
3D models.
Known issues
REVEAL Web Data Entry
- After changing the name of an object, the new name will not appear in the Name
list until you click to a different table and then click back.
REVEAL Analyze
- If REVEAL Analyze loses connection to the database, it crashes when it next
tries to access the database. Typically this happens when the computer wakes
from sleep if REVEAL Analyze was running when the computer was put to sleep.
- On some systems when the 3D window overlaps other windows, it may not correctly redraw when
the mouse is moved. Click on the edge of the window to resize it and it will
redraw correctly.
REVEAL Analyze not-yet-implemented features
- 3D View export to a file is not yet implemented.
- 3D alignment using latitude / longitude is not yet implemented
