ask if we should remove the temp files

added option to use mencoder (to create mpeg4)

move old (fixed) bug files to non-bug directories

- 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)

group the 2 anim demos in a single, interactive one

- new parser function GetValue("text", default_value) to query a value
  interactively in a script

- added a nice example using this (to compute slices automatically):
  demos/multislice.script

- 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

- new colormaps (jet, hot and pink from Matlab) + generalized
  handling of grayscale colormap

- new View.Colormap option (this enables Gmsh to remember which
  colormap to use or which colormap the current modified colormap
  comes from) + better View.AlphaChannel treatment

- fix saving of color options when color_scheme is != 0

add cube example to the demos

add sphere to the demos

- All extrusion commands now return a list of 2 numbers (instead of 1):
  the first, as before, is the number of the "top" of the extruded region
  (i.e., a point for extrude point, a line for extrude line, ...), the
  second is the number of the "body" of the extruded region (i.e., a
  line for extrude point, a surface for extrude line, ...).

- "Extrude Surface" now always creates a new volume (automatically),
  EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO LAYERS SPECIFICATION. This makes it consistent
  with "Extrude Point" and "Extrude Line", which always create new
  curves and surfaces, respectively.

  Important Note: you will have to modify your old .geo files to avoid
  duplicate volume definitions if you use "Extrude Surface" without
  extruding the mesh (i.e., without the "Layers" command). These
  duplicate volumes would be harmless, but they would srew up your
  physical volume definitions later on...

  * Solution 1: use the new volumes (recommended). To do this, just
  remove your old extra volume definitions and let Gmsh create the
  extruded volumes for you. (To retrieve the volume number created by
  Gmsh, use "aa[] = Extrude Surface {...};;": the volume number is
  "aa[1]".)

  * Solution 2: keep the old volumes.

  a) clean way: retrieve the new volume number (aa[] = Extrude Surface
  {...};;) and delete the new volume with "Delete { Volume aa[1]; }"

  b) dirty (but handy) way: since, in order to create the new volumes
  with the less impact possible, Gmsh uses "low" numbers (actually,
  forcing "Geometry.OldNewreg=0") for the new volumes, just remove all
  "low number volumes". For example, if you have 4 "Extrude Surface" in
  your file, you can then just do "Delete{ Volume {1:4}; }"

Voila :-)

nicer physicals

a version of piece.geo with correct surface orientations so that
it works with netgen

- enable lights by default
- remove obsolete comments about MergeWithBoundingBox

adding the low memory animation example in the demos

Set max quality

Fixed bug in DecomposeInSimplex (need to set deleted non-simplex lists
to NULL)

- 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;

Remove the copyright and add the name of the original author.

commiting chapters 4 & 5

add tensor examples