2023.4.4

Main changes

• New API docs
• added cli functionality with vedo --search-code to inspect the code for keywords
• method tomesh() changed to generate_mesh()
• fix for mark_boundaries()
• use vtkStaticCellLocator instead of vtkCellLocator
• improved pointcloud.density() function
• add utils.progressbar()
• add trame examples
• add utils.is_ragged() to check if an array is homogeneuos (not ragged)
• fix shapes.Lines() class
• add shapes.ThickTube() as per #800
• add settings.backend_autoclose (default is True) to automatically close Plotter after show() in jupyter notebooks, #802
• fix k3d backend - remove pinning to 2.7.4 #808
• in Text2D and Text3D shortcut to symbols are now formatted as :gamma and no more as \gamma
• fix mesh.stretch() thanks to @mikaeltulldahl in #807
• fixes to cmap()
• added mesh.is_manifold() method #813
• added utils.open3d2vedo() and utils.vedo2open3d converters as per #663
• added mesh.non_manifold_faces() to detect and (try to) remove non-manifold faces of a triangular mesh #813 #663 and SlicerIGT/SlicerBoneReconstructionPlanner#35
• added pointcloud.compute_acoplanarity() method
• add pipeline visualization with syntax any_vedo_obj.pipeline.show() or interactively by clicking an object and pressing y.
• fixes to Button class
• in map_points_to_cells() added keyword move in #819 @19kdc3
• fix flagpost() by creating a new class addons.Flagpost() in #821 @ZiguoAtGitHub
• add vedo.io.Video(backend='imageio') support for video generation
• add vedo.io.Video.split_frames() of an already existing video file.
• add Picture2D class
• add mesh.slice()
• added __repr_html__ for all types (thanks to @haesleinhuepf input)
• added treelib for pipeline representation
• fixes to dolfin support MeshActor

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New/Revised Examples

examples/basic/mousehover0.py
examples/advanced/timer_callback0.py
examples/simulations/lorenz.py
examples/pyplot/embed_matplotlib.py
examples/other/trame_ex1.py
examples/other/trame_ex2.py
examples/other/trame_ex3.py
examples/other/make_video.py
examples/other/dolfin/ex06_elasticity4.py
examples/notebooks/test_types.ipynb
examples/notebooks/slider2d.ipynb