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Next Release 2.13
Release date: January 2013.
New Features
- new application ideal
- quadratic field extensions and exact representations of Platonic solids (and others)
- new rule to test regularity of a complete fan
- visualization: saving the view point
- visualization: Scale option for Sketch output
- new formatting_filter for numbered/labeled array types
- fast loading of gzipped XML files
- further modularization via bundled extensions
- experimental version of PolyViewer (?)
Changes
- discontinued support for legacy versions of gcc and perl (gcc 4.2/perl 5.10 or higher needed)
create_24_cell
replaced byregular_24_cell
from general Wythoff construction (now comes with the group)eliminate_denominators
(for typeMatrix
) renamed toeliminate_denominators_in_rows
; reason: avoid confusion with new functioneliminate_denominators_entire
with same signature;eliminate_denominators
for typeVector
unchanged- visualization: Sketch-Interface can now handle VertexLabels and is able to color every Facet/Vertex individually
- visualization: Sketch-Output has a different papersize, so you don't need to scroll down anymore.