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  This file is part of pyFormex 1.0.5  (Sat Feb 16 10:40:32 CET 2019)
  pyFormex is a tool for generating, manipulating and transforming 3D
  geometrical models by sequences of mathematical operations.
  Home page: http://pyformex.org
  Project page:  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyformex/
  Copyright 2004-2018 (C) Benedict Verhegghe (benedict.verhegghe@ugent.be)
  Distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
  
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pyFormex 1.0.5  Releasenotes
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This is the first official release of the pyFormex 1.0 series.
There is no changelog compared to the 0.9.x release, because the changes
are really too important and too numerous to be listed.

The good news is that most of the pyFormex data models and scripting
language have remained the same. Where functions changed in a way that
could surprise the user, a warnuing hass been added. Conversion of your
scripts from a 0.9.x version should therefore no be too difficult.

Some of the most prominent changes:
- a completely new rendering engine, making use of hardware graphics
  acceleration
- graphic attributes on the geometric models, that allow for interactively
  changing the rendering
- many new geometrical operations
- bug fixes, more input checking, performance improvements

There are also some things still lacking:
- most of the the user guide still needs to be written
- the installation manual needs an update
- the reference manual has already partly been revised but needs further work.
  It is very complete though, and it contains lots of examples. So it can be
  used as a first resource of information, as do the large suite of examples
  included with pyFormex.

The future: expect improved documentation and more frequent official releases.


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