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New Features in Release 2.12
Release date: March 19, 2012.
Release 2.12 is now available on the Downloads page. Here are the most important new features:
- new client for integer hull computation
- interface to Sketch 3D/TikZ
- handling of fans with non-trivial lineality space
- unification of template parameters
- pipe shell
- multitude of minor editions and bugfixes
Integer hull computation
Two scripts simplify the computation of the convex hull of the lattice (integer) points in a polyhedron. The script will be described in more detail in the tutorial polymake and Optimization.
Interface to Sketch 3D/TikZ
Fans with non-trivial lineality space
Minor improvements in the application fan include the possibility to handle fans with non-trivial lineality space and the ability to efficiently extract individual cones from a fan.
Unification of template parameters
On the Perl side all coordinate based big object types (such as Polytope, Cone, Fan) as well as the related small object types (such as Vector, Matrix) now have Rational as the default template parameter. It may thus be omitted.