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The second Beta of ILWIS 3.8 is done and on the download site!

So what can you expect of this Beta? Well, a number of things that were not available in the first beta are now available, such as color composite and some editors. Some new things, things that were not possible in 3.7 have been included. For example Hovmoller diagrams and base maps (see below).

Some things didn’t make it (yet), like the stereo pair and the sample set editor. The stereo pair is for a large part done and a first version will be done this week but I didn’t want to wait for it. The sample set editor is still in the start phase.

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With the 3.8 we tried to make the response of the the renderings to the users actions as direct as possible ( of course, where reasonable and technically feasible). With this I mean that if a user changes lets say the transparency of a layer, the transparency must change on the fly and not after pressing some apply button. The idea is to give immediate feedback and limmit the number of user interface actions a user needs to do when setting up a rendering. In this blog entry I want to show you a few of these.

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This week I want to show some of small convenience additions in ILWIS 3.8. None of these changes have wide application like for example the animation or 3D features discussed in previous blogs but they add a level of convenience, a level of interactivity that was previously not there. Particularly I want to show

• Filtering on class maps
• ObjectCollections as layer
• Map info pane.

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