after long years of waiting (foir you) and hard labour (for me), Gem 0.93 has been released today.

large parts of the underlying engine have been re-written to give you a better experience!

binaries are available for w32 (installer & zip), for the brave and adventurous there is the source code. binaries for OSX and not available yet, but we hope to get them online soonish.

grab it while it's hot: http://gem.iem.at/releases/0.93.0

alternatively you can get the files from https://sourceforge.net/projects/pd-gem

highlights

Objects

frei0r video plugins support

• [mesh], [surface3d],...
• [separator] now takes arguments to define which stacks to push/pop

documentation

• numerous bigfixes and improvements

extra

• [pix_fiducialtrack] is no more part of Gem (but comes bundled with Gem)
• [pix_artoolkit] fiducial tracking using ARToolKit
• [pix_drum], [pix_mano]: Jaime Olivier's analysis objects!

plugins

image acquisition is now factored out into "plugins" this means that you can e.g. easily add new image acquisition methods to the existing [pix_video], [pix_film] and [pix_image] objects

• still image loading/saving now uses plugins on all platforms

on w32 you can now use ImageMagick and/or QuickTime for loading/saving images, which greatly increases the number of supported formats. you now get programmatic feedback on image loading success...

• video acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms

uniform way to get or set properties/attributes/controls, like hue, saturation, shutter-speed, pan,... working DV support (on linux) V4L also works with newer kernels (that dropped v4l) support for IIDC support for industrial grade GigE cameras using 3rd party libraries such as PYLON, Halcon or AVT's PvAPI experimental UNICAP support

• film acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms (you could use

gmerlin on w32 or osx...)

• recording (film output) now uses plugins on all platforms

support for V4L2 (and V4L) loopback devices, in order to generate a fake live video from your Gem window - use itfor recording, streaming,...

settings

global & local settings files to modify the overall behaviour of Gem you don't like Gem's default framerate, windowsize, font, texture mode,...? change it once and for all

internals

• API: this is the first Gem with a "public" API: a selection of headers

that you can use to write your own Gem-plugins build-system

• build system: completely switched to a proper autotools

• openGL: updated bundled GLEW

• source organization: re-organized the entire source tree for hopefully

better maintainability

lowlights

i need an OSX developer willing to spend some time in getting image acquisition and windowing to work on OSX>=10.6 (x86_64)

mfga,dsra IOhannes

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