[Gmsh-announce] New Gmsh release: 1.59

[Christophe Geuzaine]

New in 1.59: added support for discrete (triangulated) surfaces,
either in STL format or with the new "Discrete Surface" command; added
STL and Text output format for post-processing views and STL output
format for surface meshes; all levelset-based plugins can now also
compute isovolumes; generalized Plugin(Evaluate) to handle external
view data (based on the same or on a different mesh); generalized
Plugin(CutGrid); new plugins (Eigenvalues, Gradient, Curl,
Divergence); changed default colormap to match Matlab's "Jet"
colormap; new transformation matrix option for views (for
non-destructive rotations, symmetries, etc.); improved solver
interface to keep the GUI responsive during solver calls; new C++ and
Python solver examples; simplified Tools->Visibility GUI; transfinite
lines with "Progression" now allow negative line numbers to reverse
the progression; added ability to retrieve Gmsh's version number in
the parser (to help write backward compatible scripts); fixed white
space in unv mesh output; fixed various small bugs.

As usual, you can download the new version from http://geuz.org/gmsh/.