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16 Aug 10:06

0.18.0

dfc170b

0.18.0: Exploiting column chunks for faster ingestion and lower memory use

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://rerun.io/viewer.

📖 Release blogpost: http://rerun.io/blog/column-chunks
🧳 Migration guide: http://rerun.io/docs/reference/migration/migration-0-18

Python: pip install rerun-sdk
Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli --locked
Online demo: https://rerun.io/viewer/version/0.18.0/
C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.18.0/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip

0.18.Release.hero.mp4

✨ Overview & highlights

Rerun 0.18 introduces new column-oriented APIs and internal storage datastructures (Chunk & ChunkStore) that can both simplify logging code as well as improve ingestion speeds and memory overhead by a couple orders of magnitude in many cases (timeseries-heavy workloads in particular).

These improvements come in 3 broad categories:

a new send family of APIs, available in all 3 SDKs (Python, C++, Rust),
a new, configurable background compaction mechanism in the datastore,
new CLI tools to filter, prune and compact RRD files.

Furthermore, we started cleaning up our data schema, leading to various changes in the way represent transforms & images.

New `send` APIs

Unlike the regular row-oriented log APIs, the new send APIs let you submit data in a columnar form, even if the data extends over multiple timestamps.

This can both greatly simplify logging code and drastically improve performance for some workloads, in particular timeseries, although we have already seen it used for other purposes!

API documentation:

API usage examples:

Python timeseries

Using log() (slow, memory inefficient):

rr.init("rerun_example_scalar", spawn=True)

for step in range(0, 64):
    rr.set_time_sequence("step", step)
    rr.log("scalar", rr.Scalar(math.sin(step / 10.0)))

Using send() (fast, memory efficient):

rr.init("rerun_example_send_columns", spawn=True)

rr.send_columns(
    "scalars",
    times=[rr.TimeSequenceColumn("step", np.arange(0, 64))],
    components=[rr.components.ScalarBatch(np.sin(times / 10.0))],
)

C++ timeseries

Using log() (slow, memory inefficient):

const auto rec = rerun::RecordingStream("rerun_example_scalar");
rec.spawn().exit_on_failure();

for (int step = 0; step < 64; ++step) {
    rec.set_time_sequence("step", step);
    rec.log("scalar", rerun::Scalar(std::sin(static_cast<double>(step) / 10.0)));
}

Using send() (fast, memory efficient):

const auto rec = rerun::RecordingStream("rerun_example_send_columns");
rec.spawn().exit_on_failure();

std::vector<double> scalar_data(64);
for (size_t i = 0; i < 64; ++i) {
    scalar_data[i] = sin(static_cast<double>(i) / 10.0);
}
std::vector<int64_t> times(64);
std::iota(times.begin(), times.end(), 0);

auto time_column = rerun::TimeColumn::from_sequence_points("step", std::move(times));
auto scalar_data_collection =
    rerun::Collection<rerun::components::Scalar>(std::move(scalar_data));

rec.send_columns("scalars", time_column, scalar_data_collection);

Rust timeseries

Using log() (slow, memory inefficient):

let rec = rerun::RecordingStreamBuilder::new("rerun_example_scalar").spawn()?;

for step in 0..64 {
    rec.set_time_sequence("step", step);
    rec.log("scalar", &rerun::Scalar::new((step as f64 / 10.0).sin()))?;
}

Using send() (fast, memory efficient):

let rec = rerun::RecordingStreamBuilder::new("rerun_example_send_columns").spawn()?;

let timeline_values = (0..64).collect::<Vec<_>>();
let scalar_data: Vec<f64> = timeline_values
    .iter()
    .map(|step| (*step as f64 / 10.0).sin())
    .collect();

let timeline_values = TimeColumn::new_sequence("step", timeline_values);
let scalar_data: Vec<Scalar> = scalar_data.into_iter().map(Into::into).collect();

rec.send_columns("scalars", [timeline_values], [&scalar_data as _])?;

Background compaction

The Rerun datastore now continuously compacts data as it comes in, in order find a sweet spot between ingestion speed, query performance and memory overhead.

This is very similar to, and has many parallels with, the micro-batching mechanism running on the SDK side.

You can read more about this in the dedicated documentation entry.

Post-processing of RRD files

To help improve efficiency for completed recordings, Rerun 0.18 introduces some new commands for working with rrd files.

Multiple files can be merged, whole entity paths can be dropped, and chunks can be compacted.

You can read more about it in the new CLI reference manual, but to give a sense of how it works the below example merges all recordings in a folder and runs chunk compaction using the max-rows and max-bytes settings:

rerun rrd compact --max-rows 4096 --max-bytes=1048576 /my/recordings/*.rrd > output.rrd

Overhauled 3D transforms & instancing

As part of improving our arrow schema and in preparation for reading data back in the SDK, we've split up transforms into several parts.
This makes it much more performant to log large number of transforms as it allows updating only the parts you're interested in, e.g. logging a translation is now as lightweight as logging a single position.

There are now additionally InstancePoses3D which allow you to do two things:

all 3D entities: apply a transform to the entity without affecting its children
Mesh3D/Asset3D/Boxes3D/Ellipsoids3D: instantiate objects several times with different poses, known as "instancing"
- Support for instancing of other archetypes is coming in the future!

All four tetrahedron meshes on this screen share the same vertices and are instanced using an InstancePoses3D archetype with 4 different translations

⚠️ Breaking changes

.rrd files from older versions won't load correctly in Rerun 0.18
mesh_material: Material has been renamed to albedo_factor: AlbedoFactor #6841
Transform3D is no longer a single component but split into its constituent parts. From this follow various smaller API changes
Python: NV12/YUY2 are now logged with Image
ImageEncoded is deprecated and replaced with EncodedImage (JPEG, PNG, …) and Image (NV12, YUY2, …)
DepthImage and SegmentationImage are no longer encoded as a tensors, and expects its shape in [width, height] order

🧳 Migration guide: http://rerun.io/docs/reference/migration/migration-0-18

🔎 Details

🪵 Log API

Add Ellipsoids3D archetype #6853 (thanks @kpreid!)
Dont forward datatype extensions beyond the FFI barrier #6777
All components are now consistently implemented by a datatype #6823
Add new archetypes.ImageEncoded with PNG and JPEG support #6874
New transform components: Translation3D & TransformMat3x3 #6866
Add Scale3D component #6892
Angle datatype stores now only radians #6916
New DepthImage archetype #6915
Port SegmentationImage to the new image archetype style #6928
Add components for RotationAxisAngle and RotationQuat #6929
Introduce TransformRelation component #6944
New LeafTransform3D, replacing OutOfTreeTransform3D #7015
Remove Scale3D/Transform3D/TranslationRotationScale3D datatypes, remove Transform3D component #7000
Rewrite Image archetype #6942
Use LeafTranslation (centers), LeafRotationQuat and LeafRotationAxisAngle dire...

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08 Jul 15:21

rerun-bot

0.17.0

d65ca50

0.17.0: More Blueprint features and better notebooks

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://rerun.io/viewer.

📖 Release blogpost: https://rerun.io/blog/blueprint-overrides

Python: pip install rerun-sdk
Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli --locked
Online demo: https://rerun.io/viewer/version/0.17.0/
C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.17.0/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip

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🧳 Migration guide: http://rerun.io/docs/reference/migration/migration-0-17

✨ Overview & highlights

🟦 Blueprint component override & defaults, and visualizer override for all views
- Component defaults: Configure default component value for an entire view, used when no values are logged to the data store (using rr.log()).
- Component overrides: Specify a value to use regardless of the data-store & default values and use specified value instead. Can be set per view per entity.
- Visualizer overrides: Specify a visualizer to use for a given entity in a given view. Previously only available for scalar data in timeseries views, now available for all view kinds.
- All three are available from the (fully revamped) UI and the Python blueprint APIs.
- Everything that was editable per entity in a view now uses component overrides (e.g. camera plane distance, transform axis lengths, etc.)
- Tip: Tooltips for each component in the UI include a link to the docs now!
🕸️ Improved notebook & website embedding support
- Now you can stream data from the notebook cell to the embedded viewer.
- Much improved support for having multiple viewers on the same web page.
- More configuration options have been added to control the visibility of the Menu bar, time controls, etc.
- Note: Use pip install "rerun-sdk[notebook]" to include the better notebook support. This includes the new rerun-notebook package, which is used internally by [rerun-sdk].
🧑‍🏫 New Examples
🛠️ Improved the logging API with many new and updated archetypes and components (see migration guide)
🖼️ TensorView is now fully configurable from blueprint code
🎛️ Revamped selection panel UI
🚚 Much work is being done under-the-hood to migrate our data-store to "chunks" (aka units of batched data). More on this in the next release!
- SDKs are already using chunks to transport data to the viewer, performance characteristics may have changed but should be largely the same for the moment.

⚠️ Breaking changes

HalfSizes2D has been renamed to HalfSize2D
HalfSizes3D has been renamed to HalfSize3D
.rrd files from older versions won't load in Rerun 0.17

🧳 Migration guide: http://rerun.io/docs/reference/migration/migration-0-17

🔎 Details

🪵 Log API

Introduce chunks and use them on the client side:
- Part 0: improved arrow chunk formatters #6437
- Part 1: introduce Chunk and its suffle/sort routines #6438
- Part 2: introduce TransportChunk #6439
- Part 3: micro-batching #6440
- Part 4: integrations #6441
Remove unused scalar scattering component #6471
Introduce ImagePlaneDistance Component #6505
Introduce new archetype for Axes3D #6510
Expose Colormap component for DepthImage, depth image colormap now used outside of reprojection #6549
TimeSeriesAggregation can now be set per SeriesLine (and as blueprint default per View) #6558
Expose FillRatio component to configure DepthImage back-projection radius scaling #6566
Expose image opacity component #6635
Make draw order editable & solve 2D flickering issues, add draw order to arrow2d archetype #6644
Remove Axes3D archetype and add axis_length to Transform3D #6676
Expose UI point radii to logging & blueprint, remove old default radius settings in favor of blueprint default components #6678
Rename HalfSizes2D/3D to HalfSize2D/3D #6768

🌊 C++ API

Add docs on how to install C++ SDK with conda-forge packages #6381 (thanks @traversaro!)

🐍 Python API

Make barchart legend settable via blueprint #6514
Expose tensor slice selection to blueprint #6590
Use literal unions in Python enum codegen #6408
Allow hiding top panel via blueprint #6409
Improve the visibility of Python public APIs to type checkers #6462
Expose Interactive component #6542
Python components now implement the ComponentBatchLike interface #6543
Allow streaming to the viewer from the cell where it's created #6640
Introduce new Python API for setting overrides #6650
Publish rerun_notebook in CI #6641

🦀 Rust API

All components implement the Default trait now in Rust #6458
Codegen DerefMut & Deref for all trivial components #6470

🪳 Bug Fixes

Allow removing blueprint entries even when they are invisible #6503
Fix wrong depth projection value on picking when depth meter was edited #6551
Always enable OpenGL fallback backend, fix --renderer=gl only working together with WGPU_BACKEND env-var #6582
Improve container selection panel UI #6711
Fix annotation context labels not showing in views #6742
Quiet the 'not a mono-batch' log spam when selecting keypoint with a batch class-id #6359
Fix incorrect label placement for 3D arrows with origins #6779
Don't pass RRD paths to other data-loaders #6617

🌁 Viewer Improvements

Introduce a mechanism for blueprint-provided defaults #6537
Allow resetting view property components from GUI for all generically implemented property UI #6417
Don't log "SDK client connected" messages until after we have confirmed it's a client #6456
Background color settings uses new generic UI now #6480
TimeSeries y-range is now tightly synced with plot view & uses new generic UI #6485
Remove option to enable/disable depth projection from UI #6550
Expose tensor colormap/gamma/filter/scaling to blueprint #6585
Handle static text messages in TextLogView gracefully, handle overrides #6712
Multiple instances of points/arrows/boxes with single label display label now at the center #6741

🧑‍🏫 Examples

Add the OCR example #6560 (thanks @andreasnaoum!)
Add the Vista example #6664 (thanks @roym899!)
Add the Stereo Vision SLAM example #6669 (thanks @02alexander!)
Add 2D neural field notebook example #6775 (thanks @roym899!)
Update the nuScenes example to use blueprint overrides and defaults #6783
Update the plots example to use blueprint overrides #6781

📚 Docs

Add links to our docs in component tooltips #6482
Show the first line of the docs when hovering a component name [#6609](https://github.c...

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29 May 16:29

rerun-bot

0.16.1

d24e449

0.16.1

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://rerun.io/viewer.

Python: pip install rerun-sdk
Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli
Online demo: https://rerun.io/viewer/version/0.16.1/
C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.15.1/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip

This patch release comes with the following fixes:

Don't log warnings when unknown clients connect over TCP #6368
Fix not being able to set time series' Y axis ranges from the UI #6384
Fix error when logging segmentation image #6449
Fix broken example source links in Viewer example list #6451

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16 May 16:50

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0.16.0

f820ea0

0.16.0: More blueprint control from code

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://rerun.io/viewer.

Python: pip install rerun-sdk
Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli
Online demo: https://rerun.io/viewer/version/0.16.0/
C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.16.0/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip

Release.0.16.mp4

✨ Overview & highlights

🟦 Customize views in code: We started exposing some view properties in the blueprint!
- 📋 Included are:
  - Visible time ranges
    - check this new how-to guide & example that demonstrates this with plots
  - Time Series legend & y-axis configuration
  - 2D & 3D View background color
  - 2D View bounds
- 📚 learn more on the new view blueprint doc pages
- 🚀 …more to come in the future!
🕰️ Deprecated timeless in favor of new static logging
- Except for the name change, they behave similarly in most use cases. Unlike with timeless, static data…
  - …can't be mixed with non-static data on the same component.
  - …will override previous static data and not keep old data in memory.
- Check out our migration guide.
🖼️ 2D View's pan & zoom got redone, it's now a free canvas without any scroll bar
🤖 Added an example to use Rerun with ROS2.

As always there's a lot going on under the hood:

🚚 We streamlined our development processes & CI and examples.
🕸️ Our web page is about to switch from React to Svelte, making it a lot snappier!
💿 Instance key removal in 0.15.0 opened the door to major simplifications in our data store, this
will make it easier for us to improve performance and implement data streaming.
🤗 We're making it easier to work with HuggingFace's Gradio API. Stay tuned! Most things for this already landed in this release and we'll soon build more direct support on top.

Full Changelog

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11 Apr 15:28

rerun-bot

0.15.1

7dedf88

0.15.1 - Fix Python notebooks

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://rerun.io/viewer.

Python: pip install rerun-sdk
Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli
Online demo: https://rerun.io/viewer/version/0.15.1/
C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.15.1/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip

Fix timeout in notebooks by making the app_url correctly point to app.rerun.io #5877
CMake: Allow to call find_package(rerun_sdk) two or more times #5886 (thanks @traversaro!)

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09 Apr 15:07

rerun-bot

0.15.0

bc8bcd0

0.15.0 - Blueprints from Python

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://rerun.io/viewer.

Python: pip install rerun-sdk
Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli
Online demo: https://rerun.io/viewer/version/0.15.0/
C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.15.0/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip

The biggest news is the ability to create a blueprint via the Python logging API. Check out our associated blog post for more information.

import rerun.blueprint as rrb

blueprint = rrb.Blueprint(
    rrb.Vertical(
        rrb.Spatial3DView(name="3D", origin="/"),
        rrb.Horizontal(
            rrb.TextDocumentView(name="README", origin="/description"),
            rrb.Spatial2DView(name="Camera", origin="/camera/image"),
            rrb.TimeSeriesView(origin="/plot"),
        ),
        row_shares=[3, 2],
    )
    rrb.BlueprintPanel(expanded=True),
    rrb.SelectionPanel(expanded=False),
    rrb.TimePanel(expanded=False),
)

The blueprint can then be sent to the viewer with

rr.send_blueprint(blueprint)

Or stored to a file, and then later opened in the viewer:

blueprint.save("my_nice_dashboard.rbl")

In this case, the results looks something like this:

Blueprints are currently only supported in the Python API, with C++ and Rust support coming later.

✨ Overview & highlights

🟦 Configure the layout and content of space views from Python (docs)
🖧 More powerful and flexible data loaders (docs)
🖵 Improved UI for managing recordings and applications
💾 Save and load blueprint files in the viewer
🎨 Configurable background color for 3D Space Views #5443
💪 Linux ARM64 support #5489 #5503 #5511
🖼️ Show examples in the welcome page
🖱️ Improve context-menu when right-clicking items in the blueprint panel and streams tree
❌ Remove InstanceKey from our logging APIs #5395 (migration guide)
❌ Remove groups from blueprints panel #5326

🔎 Details

🪵 Log API

Replace MarkerShape with code-generated enum type #5336
Key-less data model 1: scrap InstanceKey from public logging APIs #5395
Remove the check for WrongNumberOfInstances #5399
Control panel expanded state via blueprint APIs #5484
Remove deprecated TimeSeriesScalar #5604
Customizable data loaders #5327 #5328 #5330 #5337 #5351 #5355 #5379 #5361 #5388

🌊 C++ API

Fix arrow libraries from download & build not being found in some cases #5366
CMake: Add RERUN_INSTALL_RERUN_C option to disable installation of rerun_c library #5374 (thanks @traversaro!)
CMake: Fix install not finding external arrow for dynamic linking #5375 (thanks @traversaro!)
Make pinhole.hpp robust against min/max preprocessor macros (typically from windows.h) #5432
Build C++ SDK for Linux ARM64 #5489
Generate fewer .cpp files: Inline forward serialization of transparent components to their respective datatypes #5544
Fix RERUN_C_BUILD_ARTIFACT path value if CARGO_BUILD_TARGET env variable is set #5547 (thanks @traversaro!)

🐍 Python API

All python components that wrap a bool now implement __bool__ #5400
Add the remaining space views and name them consistently #5498
Add option to include blueprint in an .rrd when calling .save(…) #5572
Allow naming space view containers #5626

🦀 Rust API

🪳 Bug Fixes

Sort text log space view on currently selected timeline #5348
Fix parents of queried paths getting visualized, fix 2D objects not showing at all in 3D if their camera parent is not included #5424
Fix: allow creating 3D space views for pinhole-only 3D scenes #5563
Fix depth cloud bounding boxes for depth cloud visualizations with transforms #5578
Fix image view not handling images with extra leading dimensions of size 1 #5579
Fix web viewer crash on invalid url parameter #5631
Be consistent in how items are removed from selection #5643
Fix layout issue on welcome screen for narrow window, triggering debug assertion #5650
Fix broken 2D space view heuristics in Python Notebooks #5674
Avoid a hang on linux by always create the renderer, even when we have no store_view #5724
Fix crash/freeze when zooming out too far in a plot #5737
Fix draw_order not working #5794

🌁 Viewer Improvements

Remove groups from blueprints panel #5326
Improved tracking of which space views were generated by a heuristic #5419
Configurable background color for 3D Space Views #5443
Save recordings from web viewer #5488
Support loading .rbl blueprint files #5513
Tensor space view can now show images #5567
Entity path query now shows simple statistics and warns if nothing is displayed #5693
Go back to example page with browser Back-button #5750
On Web, implement navigating back/forward with mouse buttons #5792
Support displaying 1D tensors #5837

🧑‍🏫 Examples

New incremental_logging example #5462
New standalone example showing blueprint configuration of some stock #5603
New example visualizing KISS-ICP #5546 (thanks @02alexander!)
Remove car example #5576
Add blueprint to arkit_scenes example, leveraging the viewer's ability to re-project 3D->2D #5510
Add blueprint to nuscenes example #5556
Add blueprint to Face Tracking example #5616
Add blueprint to Gesture Detection example #5619
Add blueprint to Human Pose Tracking example #5612
Add blueprint to Live Camera Edge Detection example #5613
Add blueprint to LLM Embedding Ner example #5614
Add blueprint to Objectron example #5617
Add blueprint to Signed Distance Fields example #5635
Add blueprint to the RGBD example [#5623](https://github....

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29 Feb 12:50

rerun-bot

0.14.1

74f1c23

0.14.1 - Fix C++ build artifacts

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://app.rerun.io/.

Python: pip install rerun-sdk
Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli
Online demo: https://app.rerun.io/version/0.14.1/
C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.14.1/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip

This release is identical to 0.14.0 and merely fixes an issue in the build artifacts for C++: 0.14.0 only contained binaries for Linux x64.
This release has the full set for Linux x64, Windows x64, Mac x64 & Mac Arm64.

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28 Feb 15:30

rerun-bot

0.14.0

0c723a8

0.14.0 - "Unlimited" point clouds & lines, quality of life improvements, bugfixes

0.14.release.video.final.mp4

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://app.rerun.io/.

Python: pip install rerun-sdk
Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli
Online demo: https://app.rerun.io/version/0.14.0/
C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.14.0/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip
- ⚠️ There was a problem in our build pipeline causing this release to only contain Linux artifacts and none for Mac & Windows. This is fixed in 0.14.1.

Originally, we planned to do only a bugfix release, but we got an unexpected amount of goodies amassed already.
We're still ramping up for programmable blueprints (soon!), but meanwhile enjoy these improvements in 0.14!

Overview & Highlights

📈 Limits for number of points & lines per space view lifted.
🖱️ Added context menu (right-click) actions for items on the Blueprint panel. (Only getting started on this, more actions in future releases!)
🚀 Speed improvements for scenes with many transforms and large point clouds.
🔺 Built-in STL mesh support.
🎥 First-person camera.
🐛 Fixes regressions in Space View spawn heuristics from 0.13, and many more bugfixes.
🧑‍🏫 Two new examples: Gesture Recognition & RRT* Pathfinding

Details

🪵 Log API

Add helpers for perspective cameras #5238
Fix spawn starting the viewer even if logging is disabled #5284

🐍 Python API

Add missing python docs for disable_timeline & reset_time #5269
Fix missing error message when passing from_parent + rerun transform type to rerun.Transform3D #5270

🦀 Rust API

Fix using rerun crate as a dependency on CI #5170

🪳 Bug Fixes

Enforce the rule: heuristics should never add a new view that would be completely covered by an existing view #5164
Remove log spam when quickly resizing the viewer #5189
Fix incorrect minimum supported rust version mentioned in docs and examples #5195
Less restrictive visualizability constraints of 2D entities, improved space view generation heuristics #5188
Fix ugly UI for some arrow data #5235
Fix missing redraw upon resetting blueprint #5262
Fix non-deterministic redundancy check for space view spawning heuristic #5266
Fix resetting vertical axis when using non-uniform zoom on Time Series #5287

🌁 Viewer Improvements

Clear all blueprints in RAM and on disk when clicking "Reset Viewer" #5199
Improve the orbit eye to always maintain an up-axis #5193
Focus on current bounding-box when resetting camera-eye on a 3D space view (double click it) #5209
Add STL mesh support #5244
Add first person 3D eye-camera #5249

🚀 Performance Improvements

More robust handling of maximum texture size for non-color data, slight perf improvements for large point clouds #5229
Cached transforms & disconnected spaces for faster scenes with many transforms #5221
Optimized cpu time for 3D point clouds (once again!) #5273
Only compute store/caching stats when the memory panel is opened #5274
Increase the max WebSocket frame limit for the native client #5282

🧑‍🏫 Examples

Add Gesture Recognition example #5241 (thanks @andreasnaoum!)
Add example visualizing RRT* #5214 (thanks @02alexander!)

📚 Docs

Fix broken link in the installing-viewer documentation #5236 (thanks @BirgerMoell!)

🖼 UI Improvements

Context Menu 1: Basic scaffolding and simple actions #5163
Context menu 2: add support for multiple selection #5205
Context menu 3: add "Move to new container" context menu action #5210
Context menu 4: add "Clone space view" action #5265
Context menu 5: refactor into multiple files #5289
Clickable path parts in selection-panel #5220
Don't show the blueprint section when selecting recordings #5245
Use the same icon for recordings everywhere #5246

🎨 Renderer Improvements

Lift point cloud size limitations #5192
Lift line vertex/strip count limitations #5207
Fix banding artifacts of 3D space view's skybox #5279

📦 Dependencies

Bump maturin to 1.14.0 #5197
Update tungstenite to remove RUSTSEC warning #5200
Lock the web-sys version to 0.3.67 #5211

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12 Feb 16:07

rerun-bot

0.13.0

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0.13.0 - Fast time series, improved layout editing & UI overrides

Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://app.rerun.io/.

Python: pip install rerun-sdk
Rust: cargo add rerun and cargo install rerun-cli
Online demo: https://app.rerun.io/version/0.13.0/
C++ FetchContent: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/download/0.13.0/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip

This release focuses on scalar time series -- both from a performance and UI perspectives. Check out our associated blog post for more information.

Overview & Highlights

📈 Rerun can now visualize many time series in the kHz range in real-time:
- The new query cache optimizes data access, improving query performance by 20-50x
- Sub-pixel aggregation prevents unnecessary overdraw when rendering plots, improving rendering time by 30-120x
- Points, lines, arrows and boxes all benefit from query caching too to a lesser extent, yielding 2-5x performance improvements
🖼 UI overrides:
- The new Scalar, SeriesLine & SeriesPoint archetypes allow for customizing plots both at logging and visualization time
- Customize marker shapes, marker sizes, etc from code or directly through the UI
- Specify axis labels, lock axes, etc from code or directly through the UI
🌁 Viewer:
- The number of compute threads can now be controlled using the --threads/-j flag
- Added support YUY2-encoded images (thanks @oxkitsune!)
- Space views can now be drag-and-dropped directly from the blueprint tree
- Scenes with 100+ entities are now up to 5x faster.
🚚 New Space View and Container creation workflow:
- When selected, containers have a children list in the Selection Panel, where new Space Views and Containers may be added.
- New modal dialog to add Space Views and Containers.
- The same dialog is also available from the + button of the Blueprint tree UI.
- The Space View's origin can now be edited in the Selection Panel.
- The container hierarchy can now be cleaned up with the new Simplify Hierarchy button in the Selection Panel for containers.
🦀 The rust SDK now exposes an optional integration with the mint crate
🕸️ The web UI SDK now supports loading multiple .rrd URLs
🔺 The web viewer now renders using WebGPU by default (when available), leading to lower memory usage on Chrome.
You can override this behavior using ?renderer=webgl/?renderer=webgpu url parameter, or restart with WebGL/WebGPU respectively from the options menu.

As well as a lot of miscellaneous bug fixes and usability improvements: see details below.

Check out our migration guide.

Details

🪵 Log API

Mark TimeSeriesScalar as deprecated in all SDKs and documentation #5102

🌊 C++ API

Document that in C++ PinholeProjection::from_mat3x3 is column major #4843
Include LICENSE files into C++ SDK Assets #4870 (thanks @rgolovanov!)
Fix C++ arrow build flag forwarding #4921 (thanks @rgolovanov!)

🦀 Rust API

Add integration with the mint crate #4753

🐍 Python API

Fix support for compressing mono images by respecting mode to determine depth #4847

🪳 Bug Fixes

External loader: don't do process IO on compute thread-pool #4942
Fix a Visible Time Range UI issue where the summary string would display the wrong data range #5034
Clear empty containers after tile drag-and-drop #5044
Allow for very large meshes & plots by always picking the largest available GPU buffer size #5053
Fix forever repaint of big scenes #5071
Fix RERUN_FLUSH_NUM_BYTES and data size estimations #5086
Make rectangle_fs.wgsl compile on chrome despite angle/mesa bug (#3931) #5074

🌁 Viewer Improvements

Introduce Scalar, SeriesLine, and SeriesPoint archetypes with their own visualizers #4875
Support modifying the plot style by introducing a generic framework for overriding components #4914
Introduce a new blueprint archetype for AxisY configuration in a plot #5028
Improve the selection/hover behavior for plots #5096
Click a spatial space view background to select the space view itself #4796
Double-clicking an entity in the blueprint & time panels focuses the 3D camera on it #4799
When loading a .ply file, warn about ignored properties #4934
Make it easier to position 3D eye-camera center #4943
Include tessellation and rendering in CPU time shown in top bar #4951
Allow selection of entities directly in the plot space view #4959
Texture support for raw Mesh3D logging #4894

🚀 Performance Improvements

Add --threads / -j to control number of compute threads #5021
Introduce the query cache:
- Primary caching 3: bare-bone latest-at caching #4659
- Primary caching 4: runtime toggle support #4680
- Primary caching 5: 2D & 3D point clouds #4681
- Primary caching 6: TextLogs & TimeSeries #4698
- Primary caching 7: Always expose the data time in query responses #4711
- Primary caching 8: implement latest-at data-time cache entry deduplication #4712
- Primary caching 9: timeless latest-at support #4721
- Primary caching 10: latest-at cache invalidation #4726
- Primary caching 11: cache stats and integration with memory panel #4773
- Primary caching 12: bare-bone range support #4784
- Primary caching 13: stats & memory panel integration for range queries #4785
- Primary caching 14: don't bake LatestAt(T-1) results into low-level range queries #4793
- Primary caching 15: range read performance optimization #4800
- Primary caching 16: context-free range semantics #4851
- Primary caching 17: timeless range #4852
- Primary caching 18: range invalidation (ENABLED BY DEFAULT 🎊) #4853
- Primary caching 19 (final): make cache globals non-static #4856
Integrate query caching with more primitives:
- Cached 2D & 3D box clouds #5000
- Cached 2D & 3D line clouds #5083
- Cached 2D & 3D arrow clouds #5088
Configurable dynamic plot aggregation based on zoom-level #4865
Improved automatic view creation heuristic, major speedup for scenes with many entities #4874
Optimize point clouds #4932

🧑‍🏫 Examples

Update all examples that use TimeSeriesScalar to use Scalar instead #5042

📚 Docs

Improve documentation of the Clear archetype #4760
DisconnectedSpace now only applies to spatial space views #4935
Fill gaps in image encoding documentation, fix how python documents union variants #4988

🖼 UI Improvements

Improve timeseries Space Views:
- Introduce a new component for MarkerShape and use it in SeriesPoint #5004
- Introduce a new StrokeWidth component and use it for SeriesLine #5025
- Break up plot charts when there's a Clear [#49...

Assets 16

Releases: rerun-io/rerun

0.18.0: Exploiting column chunks for faster ingestion and lower memory use

✨ Overview & highlights

New send APIs

Background compaction

Post-processing of RRD files

Overhauled 3D transforms & instancing

⚠️ Breaking changes

🔎 Details

🪵 Log API

0.17.0: More Blueprint features and better notebooks

✨ Overview & highlights

⚠️ Breaking changes

🔎 Details

🪵 Log API

🌊 C++ API

🐍 Python API

🦀 Rust API

🪳 Bug Fixes

🌁 Viewer Improvements

🧑‍🏫 Examples

📚 Docs

0.16.1

0.16.0: More blueprint control from code

✨ Overview & highlights

0.15.1 - Fix Python notebooks

0.15.0 - Blueprints from Python

✨ Overview & highlights

🔎 Details

🪵 Log API

🌊 C++ API

🐍 Python API

🦀 Rust API

🪳 Bug Fixes

🌁 Viewer Improvements

🧑‍🏫 Examples

0.14.1 - Fix C++ build artifacts

0.14.0 - "Unlimited" point clouds & lines, quality of life improvements, bugfixes

Overview & Highlights

Details

🪵 Log API

🐍 Python API

🦀 Rust API

🪳 Bug Fixes

🌁 Viewer Improvements

🚀 Performance Improvements

🧑‍🏫 Examples

📚 Docs

🖼 UI Improvements

🎨 Renderer Improvements

📦 Dependencies

0.13.0 - Fast time series, improved layout editing & UI overrides

Overview & Highlights

Details

🪵 Log API

🌊 C++ API

🦀 Rust API

🐍 Python API

🪳 Bug Fixes

🌁 Viewer Improvements

🚀 Performance Improvements

🧑‍🏫 Examples

📚 Docs

🖼 UI Improvements

New `send` APIs