Updates

Following the AEC hackathon a revised version of the Aviary Toolkit has been uploaded to Food4Rhino. This includes Bitmap Vector Tracing, several additions / fixes for the vector drawing workflow, and general ongoing development and fixes to the libraries.

Thanks to Leland Jobson for the implementation of Potrace, and to Hanshen Sun for implementing serialization of inputs on several of the components.

More to come.

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Permalink Reply by David Mans on December 20, 2017 at 5:37pm

Version (1.00.09) Uploaded to Food for Rhino.

Major update to the SVG exporter and minor updates to various component including the WPF Drawing components as well as updated Sample Files.

SVG now Supports

Cell Animations, uses visibility states to animate through a series of "cells." Currently only Chrome Compatible
Groups, can be converted to Illustrator layers w/ Scripts
Text, text objects working for SVG, not yet for WPF, no text wrapping
Bitmap Fills, embedded & referenced
Gradient Fills, Radial & Linear
Cropping, Scaling, Centering (some known issues)

SVG next Steps

Generating selected Styles to reduced redundancy of per object style declaration, particularly for bitmap
Preset Pattern (Hatch) Fills, Custom Pattern Fills
Additional Effects, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Feathering...
Wrapped Text
Possible Transform / Graphic Animations
Exploring alternate means of generating animations which are more broadly browser friendly

WPF Drawing updates

Gradient Fills, Linear & Radial
Bitmap Fills

WPF next steps

Full Pattern Fill Set
Text Objects

Some additional minor revisions to other components have been made, and the WPF Control Categories have been consolidated. Again, the plugin is still under heavy development, so please report any bugs on discourse.

As these are all pre releases, please know that many older files will be broken when updating to the new version.

Permalink Reply by David Mans on January 30, 2018 at 1:17am

Version (1.00.10) Uploaded to Food for Rhino.
Data Visualization Update

This is the first major / complete update to the Data Visualization section.

Updated all Data Table
Updated all Charts
Updated all Data Visualization Graphics
Added Transparency and Visual controls for windows

The update to Food4Rhino includes the latest version of the plugin as well as updated example files.
Please use this discourse thread to raise any issues that come up.

The next update version (1.00.11) will focus on updating 3D visualization.

Overhauling WPF 3D and adding three.js support will be the top priority.

Note: This build does break several previous components, in particular the Window component. I am doing my best to reduce this, but in some scenarios it is unavoidable to continue to improve the toolkit.