added small warning in automatically generated opt_* files

add line stippling for 2d plots

new option to control a view's axes color

added a 5th axes mode: "Ruler" to help measure distances between any two
points

a little more work on the axes stuff: enable global axes for the geometry and
the mesh, too. We can finally get rid of the ugly old "moving axes" bit.

(+ reverted changes in unproject: need to be more careful since unproject
can be called outside Draw())

- added an option to force the size/position of the 3D grids/axes

- cleaned-up the whole size/position thing of 2D/3D grids: it's much
  more consistent now (and the GUI is nicer)

- rewrote the algorithm for automatic positionning of 2D graphs (now
  they rescale with the window, which is much nicer--and far more
  practical)

- the grid options now also apply to 3D views (this way we can
  finally get accurate size info for any data set; and the info
  is updated in real-time for gemeotry transformations & displacement
  maps)

- new option to specify the size of the moving axes

- generalized text align code (we now support the 9 modes that TeX
  does)

change sign of levelset so that the iso-volume is more natural

- generalized the octree code to make it work with all the element
types, and not only with triangles/tets (and fixed a couple of copy &
paste bugs in the process...)

- modified all depending plugins to take advantage of this

- renamed "Duplicate View" into "Alias View" (suggested by Philippe;
  less confusing since "Duplicate" implies that we actually copy the
  data, which is not what we are doing)

- added general "on the fly" tranformation matrix option. This allows
  for very efficient visualization of aliased datasets with
  non-destructive rotations, symmetries, etc.

- removed all the crappy STL code and rewrote it using JF's POLY_rep
  class

- generalized POLY_rep so that we can use the polygonal discretization
  as a surface mesh, and mesh in 3D afterwards. I.e., we can now take
  an input triangulation (a single surface in STL format, multiple
  surfaces in STL format, one or more surfaces defined using the new
  "Discrete Surface" commands), and generate a 3D mesh that uses it. We
  could in theory even mix triangulated and "normal" surfaces in the
  same geometry, but nothing is done at the moment to ensure that the
  mesh at the interfaces would match (if it does, it actually works
  very nicely)

- new STL mesh output format to export a surface mesh as a STL file

- added an option to the GEO output routine to save the surface mesh
  as discrete surfaces associated with the geometrical surfaces

- added STL and Text output formats for post-processing views (the
  text output allows for example to exploit plugin-generated data in
  gnuplot)

- generalized Plugin(Evaluate):

  * can loop automatically over all the timestep and/or components

  * can do operations using data from an external view

     - if the 2 views are based on the same grid, the plugin does the
       evaluation very efficiently

     - if the 2 views are based on differenet grids, the plugin
       automatically interpolates the external view data onto the
       grid of the current view

- added new Rand() function in MathEval

- default colormap is now # 2 (the Matlab "Jet" colormap)

update docs

fixed typos + option file location for new Min/Max options

- new "Delete Empty Views" command
- new View.MinX, View.MinY, View.MinZ, View.MaxX, View.MaxY, View.MaxZ options
- added example on how to do simple volume visualization

add color options for elements in views (requested by Philippe a long
time ago)

power law for the alpha channel

typo

add all remaining colormap parameters as options

- Moved all the Raise[][] stuff out of the drawing routines, and into
  Graphics/Post.cpp

- New 'generalized raise' mode (can use arbitrary expressions, possibly
  with external data sources, to raise/offset views dynamically). Original
  patch by Nicolas Tardieu. Merci Nico!

- First draft (pretty much untested!) of new "Integrate" plugin to
  * integrate scalar fields over all the elements in a view
  * integrate the circulation of vector fields along line elements
  * integrate the flux of vector fields across surface elements

  Used with Plugin(DisplacementRaise) and Plugin(Evaluate) this
  permits for example to compute the area/volume of deformed
  configurations; and, with Plugin(CutPlane)+Plugin(Skin), the
  perimeter of deformed sections. Another interesting application is
  to use it on a vector field with Plugin(CutPlane), in order to
  compute fluxes across arbitrary cross-sections.

- Added "connectPoints" option to Plugin(CutParametric) so
  that we can feed its output to Plugin(Integrate)

- Added Normals and Tangents options to visualize the orientation of
  elements in post-processing views

- Added "swapOrientation" in Plugin(Transform) to change the
  orientation of the elements (in place) (+ moved the transformation
  routines from the view class into the plugin)

- fixed #defines in some of the plugin header files

forgot to update help strings

add an option to draw the post-processing scales horizontally + remove
Post_View.TransparentScales (never really worked well anyway)

fix typo

- the main menu is now scrollable when there are more than 25
buttons and it can handle an arbitrary number of buttons (this removes
the "100 views max in the GUI" limitation)

- the view number is now also displayed in the menu (to make it easier
to find the view when one has many many views)

- added "Remove empty views" menu item

doc update for extract plugin

- only save the options that differ from the default values (unless we
  explicitly ask to save everything)

- tweak the auto doc routines

- 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

use the 3d arrows by default

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.

bring option docos up-to-date

Better doc for Show/Hide

- new DecomposeInSimplex plugin
- new "Combine Views" command in the parser
- cleaned up View::tranform and View::smooth (+small bug fix for SLs)
- better check for transparency sorting
- make depend
- new View.AlphaChannel option to change the transparency
  globally for a given view (instead of having to change the colormap
  by hand every time)

With all the above, we can now generate very nice (and correct)
transparent iso-surfaces:

Merge "../tutorial/view3.pos";

minIso = 0;
maxIso = 2;
nbIso = 7;

Plugin(CutMap).iView = 0;

For i In {1:nbIso}
  Plugin(CutMap).A = (maxIso-minIso)/nbIso * i;
  Plugin(CutMap).Run;
EndFor

Delete View[0];
Combine Views;

For i In {1:nbIso}
  Delete View[0];
EndFor

Plugin(DecomposeInSimplex).iView = 0;
Plugin(DecomposeInSimplex).Run;

View[0].AlphaChannel = 0.6;