v2.4.0

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🖼️ 3D Gaussian Splatting support

Have you heard of 3D gaussian splatting ?
F3D now support opening and rendering .splat files natively, and with great performances!

🌈 Colormap preset

F3D comes with a default hot colormap, but it now ships a few different colormaps,
you can even use any colormap you want if you provide an image file!
Read all about it in the decicated documentation.

🔃 Reload file when changed

One of the features that was most requested by the community when the possibility to reload
a file whenever it is changed on disk. Well, it is now possible, using the new --watch option.

📝 Complete changelog

For F3D users:

• Added a new option --point-type used to specify how to display points sprites
• Add support for 3D Gaussians Splatting in binary .splat format
• Added ability to cycle through available animations by pressing W hotkey (thanks @kathleenhang!)
• Added display of current animation name within cheatsheet (thanks @kathleenhang!)
• Added orthographic camera projection option (--camera-orthographic) and binding (5) (thanks @kidharb!)
• Added proper continuous integration for MacOS ARM64
• Added support for glTF Draco encoded file
• Added support for dark title bar on Windows (thanks @chirag-droid!)
• Added support for colormap presets, using --colormap-file option
• Added a option to reload file automatically when changed on disk (--watch)
• Added support for streaming output images to stdout, using - filename
• Added animation support to Alembic plugin
• Improved OCCT plugin (STEP and IGES files) performance drastically (thanks @snoyer!)
• Improved config file parsing so that it is parsed in file order (thanks @snoyer!)
• Fixed an issue with blur circle of confusion (thanks @snoyer!)
• Fixed an issue with the grid being clipped (thanks @snoyer!)
• Fixed an issue with STEP file coloring (thanks @snoyer!)
• Fixed an issue when time range was not starting at zero (thanks @z-shaffer!)
• Fixed an issue when record file does not exist (thanks @chirag-droid!)
• Fixed an issue when using --no-render and --hdri
• Fixed an issue with the Windows thumbnailer with process never properly killed (thanks @chirag-droid!)
• Fixed an issue where OCCT would output to terminal
• Fixed an issue with FISH completion

For libf3d users:

• Added a new option model.point-sprites.type used to specify how to display points (only if model.point-sprites.enable is true)
• Added a image::toTerminalText method to print image to terminal text (thanks @snoyer!)
• Added an image metadata API (thanks @snoyer!)
• Added a vtkext module for plugin developer, see the documentation
• Added a new f3d component to find_package of, pluginsdk, require to build plugins against F3D

For F3D packagers:

• Added a CMake report at the end of configuration
• Added a new cmake installation component, plugin_sdk, needed to compile external plugin against F3D
• Added a new cmake installation component, colormaps, needed for the colormap feature
• Fixed multiple issue with static (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF) build
• Fixed a compilation issue with gcc14 (thanks @topazus!)
• Fixed a compilation issue with OCCT 7.8.0 (thanks @thierry-FreeBSD!)

Thanks to all our packagers that help F3D reach a wider audience: AndnoVember @kylosus @kevinsmia1939 @yurivict @bcdarwin @svenstaro @mzf-guest @papoteur-mga @berolinux @topazus @thierry-FreeBSD
Thanks to all our contributors for this release: @kidharb @kathleenhang @chirag-droid @topazus @thierry-FreeBSD @z-shaffer @snoyer @Meakk @mwestphal

Credits:

Bonsai and Counter point cloud from mip-NeRF 360 and generated using gaussian splatting.