v0.21.2

Changes

RAYX-CORE

• Improve tests on correctness for gratings by @fannyzotter in #307
• Rework Refrac2D by @fannyzotter in #308
• Exchange Vulkan GPU tracer with Alpaka (using Cuda) and enable multithreaded CPU tracing. by @ichinii in #304
• adapt compile.sh by @ichinii in #317
• Rework/core classes by @Atraxus in #316
• Exchange custom math library with std math library for complex numbers and trigonometry
• Minor bug fixes

RAYX-UI

• RAYX-UI Cleanup by @Atraxus in #292
• RAYX-UI Optimization by @EnricoAhlers in #305
• Rework file dialog by @Atraxus in #290
• New: UI for beamline design by @EnricoAhlers in #296

New Contributors

• @ichinii made their first contribution in #304

Full Changelog: v0.20.0...v0.21.0

v0.20.0

Changes

RAYX-UI

• UI restyling
• Added dockspace for more flexibility
• UI Scale slider
• Improvements for tracing with RAYX-UI
• Loading witout h5

RAYX-CORE

• Improved flexibility for optical elements (cutout, surface, behaviour)

Known Bugs

• RAYX-UI can crash on ubuntu when opening the file dialog
  • use -i CLI argument for now if that is the case, we are working on a fix

v0.19.4

Changes

• Improve robustness of rayx-ui optical element rendering
• Fixing asset distribution for rayx-ui
• Fixing script distribution for rayx

v0.19.3

Changes

• Fixing shader distribution with binaries again

v0.19.2

Changes

• Fixing shader distribution with binaries
• Fixing material data distribution with binaries
• Documentaion improvements

v0.19.1

Changes

• Fixing shader distribution with binaries

v0.19.0

Changes

• rayx-core:
  • Added optical elements
    • Paraboloid
  • Added light sources
    • Simple Undulator
    • Pixel Source
    • Dipole Source
  • Improved code consistency for optical elements and light sources
  • Improved test suite
  • Fixes for RZP tracing
• rayx:
  • Added more options to customize the export of rays and speed up the tracing
  • Added option to choose GPU
  • Improved runtime by optimizing data handling
• rayx-ui:
  • Added orthographic camera
  • Added footprints/heatmaps/histograms for simple optical elements
  • Changed default camera position and orientation
  • Jump to light source is possible now
  • Correctly render slits
  • Fixed positioning of light sources
  • Fixed triangulation bugs
  • Fixed general rendering bugs
• General bugfixes and documentation updates

Release v0.18.0

Changes

• Addition of first prototype for RAYX-UI, which allows rendering of beamlines
• Added -s option for sequential tracing
• Added option for specific h5 format when exporting rays
• Bug fixes for the RZP (but still being worked on)
• Added additional benchmarking tools
• Exposed additional RAYX-CORE features for outside use
• Improved documentation
• Improved software testing

Release v0.17.1

Changes

• Jupyter notebook for visualizing tracing footprints
• CMake updates and fixes
• Documentation refactor and updates

v0.17.0

Changes

• API
  • Added PushConstant support to VulkanEngine
  • Cutouts and curvatures are now modular and any one can be added to any object
• Documentation
  • Some general documentation improvements
• Improved Windows stability
• General bufixes and improvements