The ARToolKit team are happy to announce the immediate availability
of ARToolKit version 2.71.3.
The ARToolKit is a collection of libraries, utilities applications,
and documentation and sample code aimed at creators of augmented
reality applications. The libraries provide the user with a means to
capture images from video sources, process those images to optically
track markers in the images, and to allow compositing of computer-
generated content with the real-world images and display the result
using OpenGL.
The release and the full read me is available at http://
sourceforge.net/projects/artoolkit/ under "File Releases".
This release is primarily a bug fix release.
Changes in this release, by platform:
All platforms:
- The mk_patt tool now uses gsub_lite for its OpenGL drawing.
- Bug fixes in gsub_lite and pattern extraction.
Mac OS X:
- This release supports Mac OS X on Intel, and builds Universal
binaries, with the exception of the VRML projects.
- A PPC binary package of OpenVRML 0.14.3 is being made available to
enable compilation of the VRML projects on Mac OS X on Intel.
- Bug fixes in the video library.
Windows:
- The Win32 video library now accepts in the config string either the
pathname of an XML file, or raw XML. The string is treated as raw XML if
the first 5 characters are "<?xml".
Linux:
- Bug fixes in the video library.
Detail on the fixes are listed in the README.txt. Download and take a
look.
ARToolKit is distributed as a multiple source archive. There are
additional source + binary packages for ARToolKit dependencies on the
Windows and Mac OS X platforms. These include the video input
library, DSVideoLib, and OpenVRML. Dependencies for the Unix-based
platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Irix) are handled by package managers on
these systems (e.g. Fink on Mac OS X, Debian and/or RPM on Linux).
As bugs come up, please post in ARToolKit's bug tracker, kindly
provided by SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?
group_id=116280&atid=674305. This is the preferred forum for bug
reports. Patch submissions are also welcomed.
Bugs fixes and other improvements are available between official
ARToolKit releases by checking out the source from Sourceforge
ARToolKit CVS repository using anonymous CVS. A simple tutorial on
how to get the ARToolKit source using a CVS GUI tool is at http://
sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=25731&group_id=116280.
Thanks to all the contributors to this release.
Philip Lamb
Research Student,
Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ.
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