ARToolKit 2.71.3 released

The ARToolKit team are happy to announce the immediate availability of ARToolKit version 2.71.3.

The ARToolKit is a collection of libraries, utilities applications, and documentation and sample code aimed at creators of augmented reality applications. The libraries provide the user with a means to capture images from video sources, process those images to optically track markers in the images, and to allow compositing of computer-generated content with the real-world images and display the result using OpenGL.

The release and the full read me is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/artoolkit/ under "File Releases".

This release is primarily a bug fix release.
Changes in this release, by platform:

All platforms:
- The mk_patt tool now uses gsub_lite for its OpenGL drawing.
- Bug fixes in gsub_lite and pattern extraction.

Mac OS X:
- This release supports Mac OS X on Intel, and builds Universal
binaries, with the exception of the VRML projects.
- A PPC binary package of OpenVRML 0.14.3 is being made available to enable compilation of the VRML projects on Mac OS X on Intel.
- Bug fixes in the video library.

Windows:
- The Win32 video library now accepts in the config string either the
pathname of an XML file, or raw XML. The string is treated as raw XML if
the first 5 characters are "<?xml".

Linux:
- Bug fixes in the video library.

Detail on the fixes are listed in the README.txt. Download and take a look.

ARToolKit is distributed as a multiple source archive. There are additional source + binary packages for ARToolKit dependencies on the Windows and Mac OS X platforms. These include the video input library, DSVideoLib, and OpenVRML. Dependencies for the Unix-based platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Irix) are handled by package managers on these systems (e.g. Fink on Mac OS X, Debian and/or RPM on Linux).

As bugs come up, please post in ARToolKit's bug tracker, kindly provided by SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=116280&atid=674305. This is the preferred forum for bug reports. Patch submissions are also welcomed.

Bugs fixes and other improvements are available between official ARToolKit releases by checking out the source from Sourceforge ARToolKit CVS repository using anonymous CVS. A simple tutorial on how to get the ARToolKit source using a CVS GUI tool is at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=25731&group_id=116280.

Thanks to all the contributors to this release.

Philip Lamb