1 What's New?

In this section, we highlight the latest additions to map3d in the (vain?) hope that people will read at least this much of the manual and be able to quickly make use of the latest and greatest that the program offers.

1.1 Version 6.5: March, 2007

This is the sixth version of the ``new'' map3d with a GTK-based GUI. We are way beyond the complete functionality of the old GL based version in almost all aspects, although it is sobering to notice that some things that were easy in GL are still too hard in OpenGL.

Some of the specific additions that you should notice over previous versions include:

GUI improvements:

Some improvements in the GUIs, particularly in the fiducial control and contour spacing control. See Section 8.3.

Fiducial support:

fiducials are time markers that we often add to the time signals that we record or compute and suppoort for them in the new verison is hugely improved. The first piece is the support for storing fiducials in the MATLAB files (see Section 6.3.3) (and also the CVRTI container files, Section 6.3.2) and the second part is the display features. It is now possible to visualize fiducials superimposed on potentials or to view them as separate fiducial maps. This may all sound a little arcane but if you need this support, you will be very happy to see it.

Saving Matlab Geometry:

This version allows the user to save matlab geometry files, single or multiple surfaces per file.

Displaying an image inline with the Geometry

map3d allows an image to be drawn in the background of the geometry. See Section 7.7 for more details.

Bug fixes:

not that the previous version had any bugs, but we found a few(!) more things to fix.

1.2 In the works (``vapourware'')

A small sampler of things that are in the works:

• Saving the frames into actual movies.
• Dynamic menus that indicate the current parameter selections (a bit more in progress).
• New display modes for the display of vectors.
• Fixing the bugs listed on the bugs page (see Section 10).