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[K3d-announce] New maintainer: Bart Janssens

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

Folks:

Well, it's obvious I haven't been working on K-3D; what has become increasingly clear to me is that I won't be contributing for the foreseeable future.  It's never easy to let go of something you've put so much effort into, but it is definitely time for me.  Thankfully, Bart Janssens has volunteered to take my place as maintainer.  I wish Bart, and K-3D, every success.

Cheers,
Tim

[K3d-announce] Introduction: The K-3D Board

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

Folks:

As I've mentioned a couple of times now, I'd like to get out of the
business of making all the decisions for the K-3D project; towards that
end I've asked Daniel Matthews, Joe Crawford, and Bart Janssens to join
me as voting members of the "K-3D Board".  Since the four of us are
already the "official" K-3D representatives for the Software Freedom
Conservancy, this seemed like a good time to take the next step and
start to put K-3D's project governance on a slightly more formal basis -
towards that end, the Board will be responsible for setting project
policies, allocating assets, and approving expenditures.

Cheers,
Tim

[K3d-announce] K-3D Joins Software Freedom Conservancy

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

Folks:

Today, K-3D officially became a member of the Software Freedom
Conservancy.  You can read more about the Conservancy at

http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/

and you can see the announcement at

http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/news/2009/may/27/k3d/

... among other things, this means that there are many new options for
donations, described here:

http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Donations

I'm excited to be joining, it's a long-overdue step in K-3D's
development as a project.

Cheers,
Tim

[K3d-announce] 0.7.11.0 Released!

[Joaquin D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:

Its been a while since last release news. In fact version 0.7.10 has not 
been announced.

 From Bart's list:

K-3D 0.7.11.0 is now released. The highlights:
- A huge amount of work on the generic primitive transformation (Tim)
- Improve large document loading times (Joaquin)
- Threaded inotify on linux (Bart, Tim)
- EulerKillEdgeMakeLoop, EulerKillEdgeAndVertex, MergeCoplanarFaces
and MergeCollinearEdges plugins (Bart)
- Bezier triangles structure and painters (Ashish)
- Improve robustness of CGAL Booleans (Bart)
- Use dynamic methods for python interface (Tim)
- Add PLYMeshReader/Writer (Tim)
- Add STLMeshReader/Writer (Bart)
- New mesh-diff code (Tim)
- Update of the CatmullClark code (Bart)
- PapagayoLipsyncReader plugin (Joaquin)
- Python Shell Dialog (Tim)
- XTrackCAD importer (Tim)

K-3D 0.7.10.0 has been released! Highlights are:
- Tim's work on generic mesh primitives
- GSoC mesh importers don't crash on Win32 in this release

You may download it from
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Download#K-3D_0.7_.28Development.29

Sincerely,
The K-3D team

[K3d-announce] 0.7.9.0 Released!

[Joaquín D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:

Again there is a new release of K-3D

Most important improvements will be on Gsoc projects.
Note that 3ds, Collada and Md2 importers crash on windows, will fix this on next 
release.

Changelog
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=11113&release_id=621200

You may download it from
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Download#K-3D_0.7_.28Development.29

Sincerely,
The K-3D team

[K3d-announce] K-3D 0.7.8.0 Released!

[Joaquín D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:

Thanks to the many contributions of Gsoc we are releasing versions more often.

There are improvements on all the Gsoc projects:
-Nurbs Tools (Carsten)
-Material Manager (Alex)
-Importers and Exporters (Carlos)
-CUDA Bitmap and Mesh plugins (Evan)
-Many improvements (Bart and Tim)
For more details check the changelog
For 0.7.8.0
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=617930&group_id=11113
For 0.7.7.0
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=616774&group_id=11113

You may download it from
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Download#K-3D_0.7_.28Development.29

Sincerely,
The K-3D team

[K3d-announce] 0.7.6.0 Released!

[Joaquín D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:
Again a new K-3D. It has many interesting features to try.
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Download

Bart's words:

Release 0.7.6.0 is now available for download! Summary of the changes:
- NurbsConnectCurves improvements (Carsten)
- CUDA transformpoints plugin (Evan)
- Complete SVG mesh reader (Carlos)
- Metadata support for nodes and properties (Tim)
- NurbsCurveInsertKnot plugin (Carsten)
- Convert SubdivideFaces and SubdivideEdges to the new mesh structure (Bart)
- Material preview improvements (Alex)
- Generic k3d_data support for spin buttons (Tim)
- Convert EdgesToBlobby, BlobbyEllipsoid and BlobbySegment to the new
mesh structure (Tim)
- Add support for hint-mapping (Tim)
- Many improvements to the plugin-related python API (Tim)
- CUDA mesh conversion (Evan)
- Shader manager panel (Alex)
- Use FTGL for text rendering (Tim)
- Prototype UV editor (Anders)
- Prototype textured GL face painter (Anders)
- Texture coordinate support in Renderman renders (Anders)
- Collada importer and reader improvements (Carlos)
- NurbsSplitCurve plugin (Carsten)
- Annotation3D plugin (Tim)
- CUDASubdivideEdges prototype (Evan)
- CloseCurve plugin (Carsten)
- Complete CUDA bitmap plugin collection (Evan)
- OpenGLVaryingColorFacePainter and OpenGLFaceVaryingPainter (Bart)
- Text anti-aliasing (Tim)
- First-iteration NurbsCurveDegreeElevation (Carsten)

Sincerely,
The K-3D Team.

[K3d-announce] 0.7.5 for windows released

[Joaquín D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:
There is a lot of activity in the project...
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Download

"
Development release 0.7.5.0 is now available for download. Highlights include:

- Fix crashes in OpenGL visualization when using MeshSourceScript (Bart)
- Additional CUDA bitmap plugins and  benchmarks (Evan)
- Add support for custom property panels (Tim)
- NurbsConnectCurves plugin (Carsten)
- OpenCascade document importer (Bart)
- SVG reader (Carlos)
- Make PipelineProfiler available in Python (Tim)
- Shader preview panel (Alex)
- NurbsCurveEditKnotVector plugin (Carsten)
- Preserve ordering of user properties upon serialization (Tim)
"
Note that some if this changes are work in progress, so some may be incomplete, 
but we are working on them!

Sincerely,
The K-3D Team.

[K3d-announce] james_sawyer wants to keep up with you on Twitter

[james_sawyer <psr...@gm...>]

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[K3d-announce] 0.7.4 Released!

[Joaquín D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:

Bart has just released 0.7.4.
Bart's words on this release.

"Highlights of this release:
- Start conversion of tools to plugins (Tim)
- NurbsCurve and NurbsSetWeights plugins (Carsten)
- Material List panel (Alex)
- GPU bitmap add plugin (Evan (source only at this time))
- Cloth plugin (Carlos)
- MorphPoints plugin (Joaquín)
- Updated MergeMesh for all primitive types (Bart)
- Collada mesh reader (Mattia)
- Automatically disable Desktop Composition on Vista (Bart, thanks to
golden tip from Yaroukh) (fixed problems on vista)
"

Also this are the highlight of the later release 0.7.3 which I didn't comment on 
its announcement. (again Bart's words)
"
- Improved scripted plugin performance (Tim)
- Numerous new example scripts / enhancements (Tim)
- Numerous testing fixes (Tim)
- Continued work on OS X build (Tim)
- Numerous Visual Studio fixes (Anders)
- CGAL boolean cleanup and binary release (Bart)
- OpenCascade mesh reader enhancements (not in binary release) (Bart)
- External resource file embedding at compile time (Tim)
- New offscreen-rendering plugin (Tim)
"

We look forward for your feedback!

Sencirely,
The K-3D Team

[K3d-announce] Students from Gsoc are now working on K-3D - Release 0.7.3

[Joaquín D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:

We are very happy with the results of the beginning of Google Summer of Code.

We received many very good proposal from students all over the world. Google 
will provide 4 stipends for the K-3D organization. This means quite a lot for 
K-3D!

Currently the students are submitting the code the presented for their proposals.
These promising projects are:
* An Integrated Shader Designer - Alexander Curtis
* File import/export plugins - Carlos Caballero
* NURBS Modeling Tools - Carsten Haubold
* GPU-Based processing for K-3D filters - Evan Lezar
* OGRE 3D Game engine integration - Mattia Barbiero
* K-3D - Physics Engine Integration - Wendy Langer

You may count 6 projects, because we couldn't get enough slot as good proposals. 
Although this 2 students are interested in following their projects, but with 
less time for them.

If you would like to share your opinion on the projects subject you may contact 
the team through the development mailing list or the forum.

Release of 0.7.3:
-----------------
Bart released the last K-3D version recently. You may want to check it's new 
improvements.
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Download

Next newsletter we will detail the progress of this student and probably a new 
release of K-3D with their changes will be released.

Sincerely,
The K-3D Team

[K3d-announce] Need help in understanding k3d pipeline

[srinivas r. <psr...@gm...>]

Hi,
    I am very much interested in the project GPU-Based Processing that is
being mentored by Dr.Tim Shead.I have sufficient experience in using
GLSL.But I never used k3d and I dont know abt the k3d pipeline.Can anybody
suggest me some material through which I can learn these aspects.

Thanks

-- 
Srinivas

[K3d-announce] Google Summer of Code 2008 - 0.7.2.0 Released

[Joaquín D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:

We are happy to announce K-3D has been accepted as a mentoring organization for 
the Google Summer of Code 2008 program.
More details:
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008

Last year we were also elected with two projects.
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2007_Report

Spread the word among those programmer you think may be interested.
http://www.k-3d.org/k3d_wiki/images/3/3c/Brochure_us_letter.pdf

Also you can suggest project's topics on the k3d-development mailing list, the 
forum or the wiki. We look forward hearing your ideas.

0.7.2.0 Released for windows
----------------------------
Check the last beta version here:
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Download#Binaries_2

Wiki
----
Also as a result of the server maintenance upgrade now the wiki is open, there 
is no need to ask for a user manually.

Sincerely,
The K-3D Team.

[K3d-announce] K-3D 0.7 binaries for windows released!

[Joaquín D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:

K-3D 0.7  Weekly snapshots
--------------------------
Thanks to Bart effort we now have K-3D 0.7 binaries for testing purposes.
Binaries snapshots should be weekly released so it will be easier to test new 
features.
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Download#Binaries_2

Mac OSX binaries should be available soon.

For suggestion, help and corrections, please contact us through the forum or the 
mailing list. We need  your feedback!

Sincerely,
The K-3D Team

Re: [K3d-announce] February 2008 - Google Summer of Code; Server Maintenance

[<gon...@pl...>]

exciting news!

thanks


Joaquín Duo wrote:
> Dear Subscriber:
>
> Well, its one mail a month. So near the end of February here we are.
>
> Google Summer of Code
> ---------------------
> K-3D will apply to Google Summer of Code 2008. If you would like to suggest any 
> idea, please contact us trough the forum or the k3d-development mailing list.
> Here you can check the current ideas:
> http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008
> You can read more about Google Summer of Code here:
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
>
> Some Development Highlights on 0.7
> ----------------------------------
> * In the last newsletter I invited to the Bug Day. Summing up it was not very 
> populated however it was fruitful. Now 0.7 is more stable and reasonable for 
> normal usage.
> * Bump the version number to 0.7.1.0 (was 0.7.0.1)
> * Improvements on the user properties
> * Full support of backfacing and edge loop selection according to:
> http://k-3d.org/wiki/ModelingRoadmap
> * A new AC3D exporter was added
>
> Sever Maintenance
> -----------------
> Tims Words:
> "The highlights: a long-overdue MediaWiki
> upgrade to 1.11, and preparation to switch from Dart2 to the new CDash
> dashboard server:
> http://www.cdash.org/index.html"
>
> Next possible topics:
> K-3D 0.7  Weekly snapshots - This will enable normal users to test the last 
> changes on K-3D
>
> Sincerely,
> The K-3D Team
>
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[K3d-announce] February 2008 - Google Summer of Code; Server Maintenance

[Joaquín D. <hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:

Well, its one mail a month. So near the end of February here we are.

Google Summer of Code
---------------------
K-3D will apply to Google Summer of Code 2008. If you would like to suggest any 
idea, please contact us trough the forum or the k3d-development mailing list.
Here you can check the current ideas:
http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008
You can read more about Google Summer of Code here:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

Some Development Highlights on 0.7
----------------------------------
* In the last newsletter I invited to the Bug Day. Summing up it was not very 
populated however it was fruitful. Now 0.7 is more stable and reasonable for 
normal usage.
* Bump the version number to 0.7.1.0 (was 0.7.0.1)
* Improvements on the user properties
* Full support of backfacing and edge loop selection according to:
http://k-3d.org/wiki/ModelingRoadmap
* A new AC3D exporter was added

Sever Maintenance
-----------------
Tims Words:
"The highlights: a long-overdue MediaWiki
upgrade to 1.11, and preparation to switch from Dart2 to the new CDash
dashboard server:
http://www.cdash.org/index.html"

Next possible topics:
K-3D 0.7  Weekly snapshots - This will enable normal users to test the last 
changes on K-3D

Sincerely,
The K-3D Team

[K3d-announce] Second Newsletter - Video Tutorials; Bug Day

[<hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:
Thanks for subscribing, this is the second newsletter from the K-3D Announce
Mailing List! We intended to send this letter every two week, but it seems it 
was too ambitious. We will try sending one every month.

Bug day
-------
Mimicking the idea from Gentoo project, the team scheduled a "Bug Day" for next 
Saturday (26th January).

Here is Tim's explanation:
"The idea is to schedule a 24-hour period during
which all our efforts are focused on eliminating bug.  Because it's a
full day, there are no issues around coordination between timezones.
Everyone simply takes whatever time they would normally spend on K-3D,
and devotes it to bug-fixing.  We would keep in touch via IM during the
day to coordinate.  Some people might coordinate to avoid overlapping
efforts, while others might collaborate on a particularly difficult bug.
The more experienced developers would be on hand to provide advice and
get more people doing basic debugging on their own - which isn't
difficult, and significantly improves bug reports."

"Everyone (users and developers) is encouraged to participate.  More
details as we get closer ..."

Video Tutorials
---------------
Joaquín Duo (me :D) made a Christmas tree tutorial. Although it's not finished 
yet it a good demonstration of modeling. It has some issues with the SDS on top 
of the tree.
http://k-3d.org/wiki/Video_Tutorials/Christmas_Tree_Modeling


Sincerely,
The K-3D Team

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[K3d-announce] K-3D First Annouce NewsLetter - Spread the Word - Video Tutorials

[<hoa...@ya...>]

Dear Subscriber:
Thanks for subscribing, this is the first newsletter from the K-3D Announce 
Mailing List! We will continue sending news every two week.

If you would like to make any suggestion or send feedback about this newsletter 
please do not hesitate contacting us trough the forum:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=34831
Or through the developers mailing list
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/k3d-development


Topics:
1-Spread the word, K-3D is moving towards modeling!
2-Video Tutorials.

Spread the word!
---------------
The team has agreed in focusing on polygonal and SDS modeling for next releases. 
K-3D is a very versatile piece of software, but lacks from certain basic tools. 
We are beginning to tackle this problems
See more on:
http://k-3d.org/wiki/ModelingRoadmap

We are eager for your feedback. You can edit the wiki. See:
http://k-3d.org/wiki/User_Feedback
http://k-3d.org/wiki/User_Feedback_Requests
http://k-3d.org/wiki/Feature_Requests
If you don't have a wiki user you can post your feedback on the forum. Also you 
can ask for a wiki account on the forum
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=34831

Besides, this Mailing List has no sense without subcribers, if you know about 
someone who could be interested on K-3D please invite s/he to subcribe to this 
mailing list.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/k3d-announce

Video Tutorials
---------------
Joe Crawford has created a video introducing to K-3D.
http://k-3d.org/wiki/Video_Tutorials
You can watch it online:
http://k-3d.org/wiki/Video_Tutorials/Introduction_to_K-3D
or you can have a downloadable version on:
http://celestinestudios.com/k3d/IntroductionToK3d.ogg
Also there is a google video version
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9200651367034248229&hl=en

This is the first video tutorial. We expect making much more. So, stay tuned if 
you would like to learn more about K-3D!
Also, we look forward you feedback through the wiki, forum or the mailing list.

Next newsletter Topics:
1-Wiki hot articles!
2-K-3D Changelog

Sincerely,
The K-3D Team