- generalized vertex array class to use reallocatable arrays

- introduced vertex arrays in post for all triangles: this speeds
  things up tremendously for ALL scalar views: 2d scalar views of
  course, but also for 3d isos (tets, hexas, etc.) and all smooth
  normals. The costly computations (compute the isos, get the normals)
  are only done ONCE each time the view is changed. Then we just pass
  the vertex array to OpenGL everytime we need to redraw (e.g. when we
  rotate the scene)

- removed the display list code alltogether: it's completely blown
  away by the new vertex array code!

for the record: with the new drawing code, you can

- rotate 500,000 triangles in real time on a 3-year old linux PC
(tested with a boing 747 surface mesh from CU: 10 times faster than
old code)

- display and rotate in real time 10 transparent+smooth shaded 3D isos
for a 1 million tet mesh (about 1 frame per second with the new code;
took tens of seconds with the old one)

Awesome :-)

- fixed + documented 2d elliptic algorithm
- renamed transfinite files

Added final bit for 2nd order elements: the middle face nodes for
quadrangular faces (i.e., for quadrangles, hexahedra, prisms and
pyramids).

- removed the quads from the simplex trees (finally...)

  **warning**

  this is a pretty big patch that touches a lot of different files. I
  tried my best to update all the things that needed to be updated,
  but I probably forgot some things... Please test! (especially the
  export routines in obscure formats like SMS, Gref, etc., as well as
  the extrusion code)

- added second order edge vertices for hexas, prisms and pyramids
  (drawing not done yet)

- added sanity check for number of values in post-pro parsed file
  format

- merged all mesh printing/reading routines in Print_Mesh.cpp and
  Read_Mesh.cpp

- cleaned up the statistics code

Small changes inspired by Wednesday's discussions:

- Mac only: Gmsh now publishes its "file types"... That means that
  geo/msh/pos files now have nice icons, and that you can double-click
  on a geo/msh/pos file in the Finder to open it :-)

- removed support for fltk 1.0 (wasn't compiling anymore anyway)

- doubled the timout in GmshServer (2->4s): this seems to help on
  Windows (thanks to jkools@veeco.com)

- added warnings in the docs about the Attractor feature

- increased WB by 1 pixel in the GUI

- replaced more Msg(FATAL) with Msg(ERROR) where it makes sense

rewrote the contour extraction routines from scratch: one can now
select the entities in arbitrary order, and undo all the steps
interactively.

- added "undo" capability in geometry creation interfaces

- removed all ugly statics in Geo.cpp

- fixed a couple of bugs (recompute min/max and surf->orientations)
  after we apply geometrical transformations

generalized Plugin(Evaluate) to work on any (even non-scalar) views

better docs

quick generalization of Plugin(Extract): we can now extract arbitrary
combinations of the field's components

- added hacked version of the GNU matheval library to evaluate parsed
  functions efficiently ("a la getdp", but faster): I added a new
  directory (gmsh/MathEval) with that code, as well as a new configure
  option and a new define (HAVE_MATH_EVAL)

- generalized the plugin option code to accept arbitrary string options

- new plugin Plugin(Evaluate) that can evaluate arbitrary functions on
  scalar views (useful for example to create background meshes)

PS: Everything (octree + function evaluation) is now in place to write
a general plugin that can make any operation between arbitrary
views...

Small corrections for ONFILE background meshes:

- should now work reliably interactively (and not only the first time
  the view is applied as a background mesh)

- fixed some memory leaks

- cleaned up the octree code (renamed some files, added copyright
  notices, indented everything)

- backported JF's doc from the texinfo file into the c++ code (the
  documentation is actually generated automatically by Gmsh with
  "gmsh -doc"!)

- replaced nPoints with nPointsU and nPointsV in CutGrid

- fixed a couple of printfs + removed some unused variables

- added new General.GraphicsFont option

- added GUI stuff for font selection, quadric subdivisions, selected
  lines

- improved Graph2D's handling of fonts

- removed Print.EpsFont and Print.EpsFontSize options

fixed (?) log scale for continuous maps (and maps where we don't check
for IntervalsType: scalar points, etc.)

Refined mesh drawing code:

- draw surface element edges and/or faces
- draw volume element edges and/or faces
- consistent color choices between surface and volume elements
- wider geometry lines
- better defaults

- Fixed second order mesh generation in 3D (on simplices only at the moment).

- In prevision of the extension to hexas, prisms and pyramids, all elements
are now derived from a new Element base class, which will be used in the
generalization of Edge/EdgesContainer in the future.

New raster ("bitmap") PS/EPS/PDF output

Fixed problem with GLU in recent cygwin distributions

And more airplane work!

- merged STL patch from Nicolas Tardieu. This patch permits to
  create an real elementary surface for each STL face. Until
  we have some code to directly remesh the STL data (which would
  be much nicer and cheaper), this is very useful. We can finally
  use STL representations to create meshable volume models.
  Thanks Nicolas !

- new option to color the mesh by physical entities (if an element
  belongs to multiple physicals, we use the first one)

- additional cleanup of the mesh drawing code

- big cleanup of the geometry creation section in the parser:

  * removed horrible Geo/DataBase.cpp
  * fixed all List-related memory leaks (a lot!)
  * added tests to check if we don't try to recreate existing
    entities (this should prevent many weird bugs due to incorrect
    input files)

- fixed LineLoop/EdgeLoop memory leaks

- many small fixes all over the place

More "airplane" work...

- rewrote the way we handle lights: glEnable(GL_LIGHTING) is now used
  at the lowest level, where it belongs. This fixes many lighting
  glitches, and should make the whole stuff much more predictable;

- simplified the display modes for geometry and mesh: the choice
  between wireframe/solid is now independent of the choice of
  lighting/no lighting (and there is a new "Enable lighting" option
  for the geometry, too--even if it does only affect things like
  normals/tangents at the moment);

- brand new code to draw really nice (shaded) 3D arrows + 3 options
  that fully parameterize them (they can degenerate into pyramids,
  cones, w/ or w/o stems, etc.);

- new options so that we can also use the new arrows outside the
  post-processing module (e.g. for tangents/normals).

- "alt+d" now simply switches between solid and wireframe mode;

- new shortcut "alt+w" to switch the lighting mode for all the modules
  (geo/mesh + all post views) at once.

Create temporary and error files in home directory to avoid file
permission issues (most notably on Mac OS X, when launching Gmush
from the Finder)

better -convert

New syntax bit: you can now use #aa[] to get the size of the list aa[]

Following a discussion with Laurent, we can now combine multiple views
(under certain conditions) into multi time step ones. This permits e.g.
to output separate .pos files for each time step, and still have a real
time evolution in gmsh. Pretty neat :-)

New post-processing range mode to adapt the scale for each time step (i.e.,
min/max is time step dependent)

Better edge swapping for non-recombined extruded meshes

New MSH file format, version 2.0.

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