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<B>Version 10.0.1</B> - <I>November 30, 2022</I>

@par
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed uninitialized point flags in tools::VolumeToMesh which could result in
  non-deterministic results (bug introduced in 10.0.0).

@par
Build:
- Fixed CXX standard requirement for VDB components in FindOpenVDB.cmake

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<B>Version 10.0.0</B> - <I>October 27, 2022</I>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
This version introduces ABI changes relative to older major releases, so to
preserve ABI compatibility it might be necessary to define the macro
<TT>OPENVDB_ABI_VERSION_NUMBER=</TT><I>N</I>.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
Highlights:
- Introducing OpenVDBLink, which provides a Mathematica interface to
  OpenVDB. This link ports over access to various grid containers including
  level sets, fog volumes, vector grids, integer grids, Boolean grids,
  and mask grids. Construction, modification, combinations, visualisations,
  queries, import, export, etc. can be achieved over grids too. Any
  Mathematica 3D region that's ConstantRegionQ and BoundedRegionQ can
  be represented as a level set grid, providing a more seamless integration
  with OpenVDB.
- Introducing a new command-line tool,
  dubbed <A HREF="https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb/tree/master/openvdb_cmd/vdb_tool">vdb_tool</A>,
  that can combine any number of the high-level tools available
  in <A HREF="https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb/tree/master/openvdb/openvdb/tools">openvdb/tools</A>.
  For instance, it can convert a sequence of polygon meshes and particles to
  level sets, perform a large number of operations on these level set
  surfaces and export them as adaptive polygon meshes.

@par
OpenVDB:
- Improvements:
  - Significantly improved the performance of all ValueAccessor methods which
    access LeafNode value buffer data. This improvement applies to any type
    which is delay load compatible (all default types except for bool and mask
    grids) and improves the performance of many OpenVDB tools.
  - Improved the performance of volumeToMesh by 10-15%.

- ABI changes:
  - ABI change to openvdb::RootNode, which now has a new member that defines
    the origin of the node. For now this origin is set to a default value of
    (0,0,0), but in the near future we will allow for offsets to improve
    access performance and reduce the memory footprints.
  - Removed deprecated virtual methods from AttributeArray.

- API changes:
  - Removed PagedArray::push_back().
  - Removed Tree visitor methods from Tree, RootNode, InternalNode and
    LeafNode classes - visit(), visit2(), visitActiveBBox().
  - Removed LeafManager::getNodes().
  - Removed tools::dilateVoxels() and tools::erodeVoxels() in favor of
    tools::dilateActiveValues() and tools::erodeActiveValues().
  - Removed tools::FindActiveValues::any() and
    tools::FindActiveValues::none().
  - StringGrid and StringTrees have been removed.

- Bug Fixes:
  - Fixed an issue with tools::topologyToLevelSet which would previously
    ignore active tiles in the input topology.
    [Reported by Tobias Rittig]
  - Fixed a bug with ValueAccessor::addLeaf and ValueAccessor::addTile which
    wouldn't add the provided leaf nodes to the underlying tree. This bug did
    NOT affect the specialized accessors which are used by the default tree
    configuration.
    [Contributed by Andrey Zakirov]
  - Fixed a bug where ValueAccessor::probeNode<NodeT> and
    ValueAccessor:probeConstNode<NodeT> would return a nullptr if the NodeT
    type was not explicitly being cached by the accessor but the node existed
    in the tree.
  - Fixed a bug on Windows where math::Abs could truncate 64bit integer values.
    [Contributed by Edward Lam]
  - Fixed an occurrence of undefined behaviour with math::floatToInt32 and
    math::doubleToInt64.
    [Reported by Vojtěch Bubník]
  - Fixed bugs in the sum merge that produced incorrect merged grids when
    deep-copying the input nodes or when non-zero background grids were being
    used.
  - Fixed a bug in FastSweeping where voxels/tiles are left with min/max float
    values.
  - Fixed a bug in math/Tuple.h that prevented compilation with VS2017.

@par
OpenVDB AX:
- Improvements:
  - Major updates to the command line interface of the vdb_ax binary, exposing
    more controls such as tile streaming, value iterator types and attribute
    bindings.

@par
OpenVDB Houdini:
- New Features:
  - Add convex hull activation for VDB Activate SOP (requires 19.5).

- Improvements:
  - Improved SDF activation to use dynamic node manager.

- Bug Fixes:
  - Fixed a bug in VDB Visualize SOP where color values that exceed
    the range wrap around instead of being clamped.

@par
NanoVDB:
- New Features:
  - Added nanovdb::IndexGrid that allows for arbitrary voxel values and even
    multiple channels to be associated with NanoVDB grids. They are more
    flexible and memory efficient than regular grids at a small cost of
    random-access performance. IndexGrids are constructed with the new
    nanovdb::IndexGridBuilder and accessed with the new
    nanovdb::ChannelAccessor.
  - Added iterators to all tree node classes for visiting inactive, active, or
    all values and child nodes.
  - NanoVDB.h now includes standalone implementations of reading and writing
    uncompressed nanovdb grids buffers.
  - Added Stats::getExtrema, which computes the min/max values of all voxels
    in a NanoVDB grid that intersects with a user-defined bounding-box.
  - Added nanovdb::Mask::countOn(int) which is essential to the new
    nanovdb::IndexGrid.
  - Added RootNode::probeChild and InternalNode::probeChild.

- Improvements:
  - Added a new much improved nanovdb::NodeManager, that is both faster and
    more memory efficient, and that works on both the CPU and GPU. Note, it
    uses a handle for allocation (just like nanovdb::Grid) and replaces the
    old nanovdb::LeafManager which is now deprecated.
  - NanoToOpenVDB is extended to work with grids templated on Fp4, Fp8, Fp16,
    FpN, bool and ValueMask.
  - Renamed RootNode::findTile to RootNode::probeTile and made it public.
  - Made Mask::getWord return both a const and non-const reference.
  - Improved unit-tests to use explicit 32B alignment (see alignment bug-fix
    below).
  - PNanoVDB.h (a C99 port of NanoVDB.h) has been updated.

- Bug Fixes:
  - Fixed a bug in nanovdb::HostBuffer that could produce crashes due to
    misaligned CPU memory allocations.
  - Fixed bug related to uninitialized memory in nanovdb::Grid which could
    confuse CRC32 checksum validation.
  - Fixed bugs related to the use of intrinsic functions for fast bit-counting
    in nanovdb.
  - Fixed a potential security vulnerability in NanoVDB.h related to buffer
    overflow exploits.

@par
Build:
- Added OPENVDB_USE_DELAYED_LOAD flag that enables delayed loading and
  defaults to on.
- Add a placeholder to inject the specific revision and URL used
  to build OpenVDB, useful for 3rd party build scripts to publish
  their exact versions.
- Fixed an issue where OPENVDB_AX_DLL was not being defined on shared
  library builds of AX, resulting in symbols not being exported.
  [Reported by Ray Molenkamp]
- Fixed an issue where setting Tbb_INCLUDE_DIR could cause CMake failures.
- Updated FindTBB.cmake to support newer library ABI suffixing in
  TBB 2021.5.
- Updated FindBlosc.cmake to better handle cases where blosc is built with
  external sources.
- Resolved LLVM deprecation warnings in AX and added support for LLVM 14.
- On Windows (MSVC), OpenVDB is now built with extra compiler options to
  ensure stricter C++ conformance: /permissive- /Zc:throwingNew /Zc:inline.
- On Windows (MSVC), the _USE_MATH_DEFINES macro is no longer defined when
  including <openvdb/Platform.h> (or any dependent headers). If you were
  relying on this in your own project for M_PI, M_PI_2, etc. you can add
  -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES to your own project compiler options. See
  <A HREF="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/math-constants">this page</A>
  for more info.

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<B>Version 9.1.0</B> - <I>June 9, 2022</I>

@par
Bug Fixes:
- Minor fix to move assignment operator in nanovdb/util/HostBuffer.h.
  This could potentially be a problem on Windows debug builds (unconfirmed).
- Minor fix to range in openvdb/tools/LevelSetSphere.h. This could result
  in data races for multi-threaded execution (unconfirmed)
  [Reported by Tommy Hinks]
- Fixed a bug with Tree::combineExtended which wouldn't propagate the resulting
  active state when a destination tile overlapped a source child node.
  [Reported by \@frapit]
- Fix unit tests failures with Blosc versions >= 1.19.0.
- Fixed a regression in ax::run which wouldn't propagate exceptions
- Fixed a bug where ax::ast::parse could return a partially constructed but
  invalid AST on failure
- Fixed AX logger exit handling in ax::Compiler::compile and ax::ast::parse
- Fixed an issue which could result in significant compilation times when
  instantiating TypeList<>::Unique<>

@par
New features:
- Added support for AMD's HIP API in NanoVDB [Contributed by Blender Foundation]
- Added bindings mechanism to AX to allow differing data and AX attribute names
  (@) in Point and Volume executables.
- Added support for OpenVDB AX on Windows.
- Added tools::memUsageIfLoaded() which returns the memory consumption of a
  deserialized VDB tree, useful if delay-loading is enabled.
- Added points::rasterizeSpheres() and points::rasterizeSmoothSpheres()
  variants, new kernels and improved performance for OpenVDB points to surface
  rasterization.
- Added points::rasterizeTrilinear() for OpenVDB points, fast staggered or
  colocated trilinear rasterization for scalar and vector attributes.
- Exposed TypeList declarations in openvdb.h which denote the default set of
  types supported by OpenVDB.
- Added points::FrustumRasterizer for efficient rasterization of OpenVDB points
  to frustum volumes with optional motion blur.

@par
Improvements:
- Added a --thread [n] argument to the vdb_ax binary.
- Added a --copy-file-metadata option to vdb_ax. This behaviour is now off by
  default.
- Added support for multiple input files with the vdb_ax binary using -i.
  Positional arguments as input files are deprecated.
- Added tools::minMax() which supports multithreaded evaluation of active
  minimum and maximum values. Grid::evalMinMax() has been deprecated.
  [Contributed by Greg Hurst]
- Significant performance improvements to AX point kernels, primarily due to
  providing AX access to attribute buffers for superior code generation.
- vdb_print now prints both the in-core memory and total memory usage for VDB
  grids.
- Improved build support for MinGW [Contributed by Mehdi Chinoune]
- Added a new foreach method to TypeList for iterating over types without
  constructing them.
- Added TypeList::Transform declaration for transforming TypeLists into new
  types.
- Moved Grid::apply implementation to TypeList::apply to allow for other
  polymorphic types to invoke it.
- Minor updates to NanoVDB to remove compiler warnings.

@par
Build:
- Regenerated AX grammar with Flex 2.6.4 and Bison 3.8.2.
- Improved locating NumPy in CMake when multiple python versions are installed.
- Fixed an issue which could report Python as missing when using CMake 3.18 and
  later on some systems.  [Reported by Sam James]
- Changed the way boost_python and boost_numpy are located. Both components must
  match the major/minor version of python in use. This can be circumvented by
  providing Boost_PYTHON_VERSION or Boost_PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR.
- Relocated OpenVDB binaries to a new openvdb_cmd root directory.
- FindTBB.cmake now prioritises newer TBB installations.
- Added option to compress PDB data in MSVC debug builds.

@par
Houdini:
- Added Attribute Bindings to AX SOP to allow differently named AX attributes
  (@) and target point attributes/volumes.
- Fix race condition in OpenVDB Merge SOP that could cause crashes
  or merged VDBs to not be deleted.
- VDB Activate SOP no longer stops at the first non-VDB primitive, but instead
  just skips such primitives.
- Added VDB Rasterize Frustum SOP for efficient rasterization of OpenVDB points
  into frustum volumes with optional motion blur.

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<B>Version 9.0.0</B> - <I>October 29, 2021</I>

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<BLOCKQUOTE>
This version introduces ABI changes relative to older major releases, so to
preserve ABI compatibility it might be necessary to define the macro
<TT>OPENVDB_ABI_VERSION_NUMBER=</TT><I>N</I>, where, for example,
<I>N</I> is 7 for Houdini&nbsp;18.5 and 8 for Houdini&nbsp;19.0.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Official release of NanoVDB, which for the first time offers GPU support for
static sparse volumes in OpenVDB. See the
<A HREF="https://www.openvdb.org/documentation/doxygen/NanoVDB_MainPage.html">documentation</A>
for details.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
New features:
- Faster build times from support for explicit template instantiation,
  which is enabled by default for most of the tools.
- Added support for OpenEXR 3 and TBB 2021.
- Added transient data to the RootNode, InternalNode, and LeafNode.

@par
Improvements:
- Added tools::countActiveLeafVoxels(), tools::countInactiveVoxels(),
  tools::countInactiveLeafVoxels() and tools::activeTiles() to perform
  multi-threaded counting. The Tree methods now use these implementations.
- Moved from the deprecated TBB task scheduler to TBB arenas. Various
  methods now respect the TBB arena state they were invoked from.
- Introduced a new thread/Threading.h header to consolidate calls to
  third-party threading methods.
- Minor performance improvements to dilation calls in fast sweeping
  algorithms.
- Added hsvtogrb() and rgbtohsv() AX helper functions for converting
  hue, saturation and value inputs to RGB values and vice-versa.
- PointDataGrid conversion can now be performed using 32-bit float arrays.
- Improved support for size_t grid types on systems where size_t is a unique
  type.
  [Contributed by Brecht Van Lommel]
- Add support for dilation in one direction and extending a field in one
  direction in fast sweeping algorithms.
- Added PNG support to vdb_render which can be enabled with during CMake with
  -DUSE_PNG=ON.
- Explicit template instantiation has been enabled by default for most of the
  tools. This pre-compiles template instantiations into the core library to
  reduce the time spent compiling code in downstream libraries or applications.
- Added a python binding for OpenVDB AX which allows you to invoke accelerated
  AX code from the python module.

@par
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where ax::run() would crash if it could not parse a single statement.

@par
ABI changes:
- Added transient data to the RootNode, InternalNode, and LeafNode.

@par
API changes:
- DynamicNodeManager can now set one grain size for threading across leaf nodes
  and another for threading across non-leaf nodes.
- StringGrid and StringTrees are deprecated.
- The NullInterrupter is now a virtual base class to help reduce compile-time
  instantiation cost.

@par
Houdini:
- Fix crash in VDB Combine in Copy B mode if the second input has
  more VDBs than the first.
- VDB Vector Merge SOP is now VDB Vector From Scalar SOP to distinguish
  it from the VDB Merge SOP. It keeps the same internal name so this
  is merely a label change.
- Add option to pass in OPENVDB_DSO_NAMES to CMake to configure which Houdini
  DSOs are compiled.
- VDB Activate SOP now has an option for the expansion pattern to use
  for dilation.
- The label for Voxels to Expand is now Expand Voxels to match Houdini.
- Fix bug to allow VDB LOD SOPs to be chained together.
- SOP Extrapolate supports dilation in one direction and extending a field in
  one (domain) direction.
- The default OpenVDB ABI is now 8 for Houdini versions > 18.5.
- VDB Visualize Tree SOP is now multi-threaded and provides slicing and color
  remapping.
- A new HoudiniInterrupter has been added that derives from the NullInterrupter
  and the Interrupter is now deprecated. All the SOPs have been updated to use
  the new HoudiniInterrupter.
- Add a sanitizer in SOP OpenVDB Extrapolate when expanding a narrow-band
  level-set with a dilation value of 0, which will result in no operation.

@par
Build:
- Added support for TBB 2021.
- Enabled the OPENVDB_FUTURE_DEPRECATION variable by default to warn on
  upcoming deprecations.
- Introduced a OPENVDB_DOXYGEN_INTERNAL CMake variable which is ON by
  default and removes the majority of internal namespaces from the
  generated doxygen.
- Improved the doxygen deprecation listings, folder layouts and fixes
  issues when using later versions of doxygen.
- Build fixes for MinGW on Windows.
  [Contributed by Brecht Sanders]
- Added support for OpenEXR 3.
  [Contributed by Cary Phillips]
- Added an OPENVDB_NAMESPACE_SUFFIX CMake string option which provides the
  ability to customise the VDB namespace.
- The Python Module now appends the base directory defined by Python_SITELIB
  to the default install path (typically dist-packages or site-packages).
  [Contributed by Ignacio Vizzo]
- As of this release, VFX Reference Platform 2019 is no longer supported.
  CMake now issues deprecation warnings for 2020 VFX Reference Platform
  version dependencies.
- Build fixes for OpenVDB AX with C++17 and greater.
- Bumped the new blosc version future minimum to 1.17.0.
- OpenEXR is now optional for vdb_render. It can be enabled with
  -DUSE_EXR=ON.


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<B>Version 8.2.0</B> - <I>November 24, 2021</I>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Added support for TBB 2021.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Added support for OpenEXR 3. This is contributed by Cary Phillips.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
Improvements:
- Added tools::countActiveLeafVoxels(), tools::countInactiveVoxels(),
  tools::countInactiveLeafVoxels() and tools::activeTiles() to perform
  multi-threaded counting. The Tree methods now use these implementations.
- Moved from the deprecated TBB task scheduler to TBB arenas. Various
  methods now respect the TBB arena state they were invoked from.
- Introduced a new thread/Threading.h header to consolidate calls to
  third-party threading methods.
- Minor performance improvements to dilation calls in fast sweeping
  algorithms.
- Added hsvtogrb() and rgbtohsv() AX helper functions for converting
  hue, saturation and value inputs to RGB values and vice-versa.
- PointDataGrid conversion can now be performed using 32-bit float arrays.
- Improved support for size_t grid types on systems where size_t is a unique
  type.
  [Contributed by Brecht Van Lommel]
- Minor performance improvements to dilation calls in fast sweeping algorithms.
- Add support for dilation in one direction and extending a field in one
  direction in fast sweeping algorithms.

@par
API changes:
- DynamicNodeManager can now set one grain size for threading across leaf nodes
  and another for threading across non-leaf nodes.

@par
Houdini:
- Fix crash in VDB Combine in Copy B mode if the second input has
  more VDBs than the first.
- VDB Vector Merge SOP is now VDB Vector From Scalar SOP to distinguish
  it from the VDB Merge SOP. It keeps the same internal name so this
  is merely a label change.
- Add option to pass in OPENVDB_DSO_NAMES to CMake to configure which Houdini
  DSOs are compiled.
- VDB Activate SOP now has an option for the expansion pattern to use
  for dilation.
- The label for Voxels to Expand is now Expand Voxels to match Houdini.
- Fix bug to allow VDB LOD SOPs to be chained together.
- SOP Extrapolate supports dilation in one direction and extending a field in
  one (domain) direction.
- The default OpenVDB ABI is now 8 for Houdini versions > 18.5.
- VDB Visualize Tree SOP is now multi-threaded and provides slicing and color
  remapping.
- Add a sanitizer in SOP OpenVDB Extrapolate when expanding a narrow-band
  level-set with a dilation value of 0, which will result in no operation.

@par
Build:
- Added support for TBB 2021.
- Enabled the OPENVDB_FUTURE_DEPRECATION variable by default to warn on
  upcoming deprecations.
- Introduced a OPENVDB_DOXYGEN_INTERNAL CMake variable which is ON by
  default and removes the majority of internal namespaces from the
  generated doxygen.
- Improved the doxygen deprecation listings, folder layouts and fixes
  issues when using later versions of doxygen.
- Build fixes for MinGW on Windows.
  [Contributed by Brecht Sanders]
- Added support for OpenEXR 3.
  [Contributed by Cary Phillips]
- Added an OPENVDB_NAMESPACE_SUFFIX CMake string option which provides the
  ability to customise the VDB namespace.
- The Python Module now appends the base directory defined by Python_SITELIB
  to the default install path (typically dist-packages or site-packages).
  [Contributed by Ignacio Vizzo]


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<B>Version 8.1.0</B> - <I>June 11, 2021</I>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
As of this release, support for grid ABI=5 has been removed.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
New features:
- Added @vdblink::tools::erodeActiveValues() tools::erodeActiveValues@endlink,
  to match the existing
  @vdblink::tools::dilateActiveValues() tools::dilateActiveValues@endlink. New
  erosion tools support all tile policies and edge/vertex neighbor patterns.
- Added support for automatic filtering of active tiles in
  @vdblink::tools::Filter Filter@endlink
  by setting
  @vdblink::tools::Filter::setProcessTiles Filter::setProcessTiles@endlink.
  Active tiles are densified on demand, only when necessary.
- Added tools::visitNodesDepthFirst and tools::DepthFirstNodeVisitor which
  visit nodes in a tree or sub-tree in single-threaded depth-first order.
- Significant performance improvements to AX volume kernels, primarily due to
  improved vectorization. Performance scales depending on the available host
  CPU instruction set and scalability of the AX kernel. Trivial assignments
  profile upwards of 3x faster on AVX.
- Introduced Active Tile Streaming for volumes kernels. AX can now dynamically
  expand and collapse active nodes at all levels of a VDB tree on demand,
  switching on or off by checking the spatial access pattern of AX programs.
- Added tools::countActiveVoxels() for multi-threaded counting of active
  voxels, optionally by bounding box. The Tree::activeVoxelCount() method now
  uses this implementation.
- Added tools::memUsage() for multi-threaded counting of bytes of memory used.
  The Tree::memUsage() method now uses this implementation.
- Added tools::SumMergeOp that uses a parallel breadth-first algorithm to
  accelerate summing grids.

@par
Improvements:
- Significant performance improvements to large dilations with
  @vdblink::tools::dilateActiveValues() tools::dilateActiveValues@endlink.
  Performance gains will improve relative to increases in the inputs size
  and dilation scheme.
- Added an optional argument to
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::topologyUnion() Tree::topologyUnion@endlink which preserves
  active tiles on the destination tree should they overlap leaf nodes from the
  source tree.
- Reduced the time spent in the hot path of @vdblink::initialize() initialize@endlink
  and @vdblink::uninitialize() uninitialize@endlink by leveraging atomics with
  double-checked locks.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Ben&nbsp;FrantzDale]</I>
- Extended @vdblink::tree::DynamicNodeManager DynamicNodeManager@endlink to
  allow for use with a const tree.
- Replace tbb::mutex with std::mutex and tbb::atomic with std::atomic as
  these have now been removed in TBB 2021.
  [Contributed by Ben FrantzDale].
- Significant performance improvements to
  @vdblink::tools::activate() tools::activate@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::deactivate() tools::deactivate@endlink through use of the
  DynamicNodeManager to parallelize tile processing.
- Added degree() and radians() AX helper functions for converting radians to
  degrees and vice versa, respectively.
- Added adjoint(), cofactor() and inverse() AX matrix functions.
- Added sort(), argsort(), isfinite(), isinf() and isnan() AX utility and math
  functions.
- Added Vec4 argument support to normalize() AX function.
- Removed unused int16 AX modulo function signatures.
- Refactored the backend AX representation of strings with SSO support and heap
  allocation.
- Added new methods on the VolumeExecutable to control active tile streaming
  and node execution levels
- The deletepoint() AX function is now natively supported by the
  PointExecutable
- vdb_view: Fixed a bug which wouldn't reset the camera speed on focus
- vdb_view: Improved the drawing of PointDataGrids
- vdb_view: Improved the exception handling of BufferObjects and added support
  for drawing an array without index values

@par
Bug Fixes:
- Fix a memory leak in AttributeArray when delayed-loading is disabled.
- Fixed a crash in OpenVDB AX when declaring arrays with non-scalar
  elements (unsupported) i.e. {"foo", 1, 2}, {1, {1,2}, 3} etc.
- Fixed a bug in OpenVDB AX which would cause an error when multiplying a
  vec3 by a mat4.
- In OpenVDB AX, improved the error message produced when attempting to use
  a matrix literal (i.e. {1,2,3...}) in a binary expression (this is
  invalid but would previously print out bad IR).
- Fixed a non-deterministic failure in the TestStreamCompression unit test.
- Use copy-by-reference for the operator in a
  @vdblink::tree::DynamicNodeManager DynamicNodeManager@endlink to fix a
  performance regression.
- @vdblink::tools::deactivate() tools::deactivate@endlink now also works with
  a MaskTree.
- Fixed a memory leak in the OpenVDB AX parser
- Fixed an occurrence of undefined behavior in the OpenVDB AX visitor
- Fixed some memory leaks in the OpenVDB and OpenVDB AX unit tests
- Fixed a bug in AX which could cause string allocations in loops to overflow
  the stack
- Fixed a bug where the ValueOff iterator for the AX VolumeExecutable could remove
  child branches of a VDB tree.
- Fixed a crash in the AX Houdini SOP with an empty PointDataGrid input.
- Fixed all cases where PointIndex and PointData aliases were used instead
  of a templated type.  [Reported by Karl Marrett]
- Fixed a crash when calling openvdb::points::pointOffsets with an empty
  PointDataGrid input.
- Add missing 8-bit and 16-bit attribute type registration.

@par
API changes:
- Restructured the internals of Morphology.h and moved
  @vdblink::tools::activate() tools::activate@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::deactivate() tools::deactivate@endlink to a new header,
  Activate.h.
- Deprecated tools::dilateVoxels() and tools::erodeVoxels() in favour of
  new morphology methods.
- The @vdblink::tools::Film tools::Film@endlink class no longer has a
  saveExr method in any build configuration. Sample code for saving exrs
  from this object can be found in the command line render tool.
- Added ability to run @vdblink::tools::activate() tools::activate@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::deactivate() tools::deactivate@endlink single-threaded.

@par
Houdini:
- Updated the VDB Activate SOP and others to use the multi-threaded
  implementation for voxel dilation, providing a significant performance
  increase.
- Introduced the VDB AX SOP which provides an interface for running
  OpenVDB AX code in Houdini on VDB grids.
- Updated the VDB Smooth SOP to support the filtering of active tiles.
- Fixed a parameter warning in VDB AX SOP.
- Transfer Surface Attributes in Convert VDB SOP could use uninitialized
  memory.
- VDB Activate SOP now uses the multi-threaded
  @vdblink::tools::deactivate() tools::deactivate@endlink for much faster
  performance.
- Improved the formatting and updated the OpenVDB AX SOPs help card.
- The AX SOP utilizes the new Active Tile Streaming feature for Volumes. Grids
  will only be densified in areas where unique values are created.
- VDB Activate SOP dilation will affect tiles, changing its behavior
  from previous versions, but producing a more expected result.
- VDB Activate SOP has a world space dilation option.
- Introduced the VDB Merge SOP that merges multiple grids in parallel and is
  faster and more convenient to use than the VDB Combine SOP.
- Fix a bug where the VDB Rebuild SDF was not preserving metadata from the
  input grid.
- Fix a bug in VDB Resample SOP where input transform was not being used for
  voxel size and voxel scale transform modes.

@par
Build:
- Dependency on OpenEXR's Half implementation has been removed from the
  core library by naturalizing the implementation into openvdb::math.
  This is fully bitwise compatible, but may require switching Half
  references to math::Half. The USE_IMATH_HALF build configuration can
  be used to switch back to OpenEXR based half.
- Blosc, Log4cplus, IlmBase, OpenEXR and TBB find modules now configure
  release and debug library variants.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Matthew&nbsp;Cong]</I>
- Fixed an issue where FindBlosc wouldn't add zstd as a dep in non static
  builds BLOSC_USE_EXTERNAL_SOURCES.
- Fixed Log4cplus interface language and missing interface libraries on
  Win32.
- Removed Jemalloc and Tbbmalloc logic from the core library builds.
- The variable CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY is no longer set by the OpenVDB
  CMake. If CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY is not explicitly provided, OpenVDB
  configures the static library with /MT(d) and the dynamic library
  with /MD(d).
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Jérémie&nbsp;Dumas]</I>
- Added support for ABI=9 and a CMake option OPENVDB_USE_FUTURE_ABI_9 to use it
  without errors.
- The value of CONCURRENT_MALLOC is now respected when building the vdb_ax
  command line binary.
- Added an option OPENVDB_ENABLE_UNINSTALL to allow the toggling of the
  uninstall build target.
  <I>[Contributed by Jérémie Dumas]</I>
- Improved the behavior of locating static zlib libraries when
  USE_STATIC_DEPENDENCIES is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where extra hboost libraries could not be found when building
  against Houdini 18.5 on Windows.
- Build fixes to OpenVDB AX for LLVM 12.
- Re-introduced the OPENVDB_DEPRECATED macro with an additional option that
  takes a message.  Added support to disable deprecations throughout OpenVDB by
  defining OPENVDB_NO_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS
- Added an optional OPENVDB_TESTS variable to easily build a subset of the
  unit tests.
- Fixed various incorrect RPATH directory paths in CMake (introduced in 8.0.1)
  [Contributed by Ignacio Vizzo].
- Removed some unnecessary CMake for vdb_view
- The Windows defines NOMINMAX and _USE_MATH_DEFINES are now provided in
  Platform.h.
- Moved the logic from PlatformConfig.h into Platform.h.
- The version.h header is now an auto generated header (version.h.in) populated
  by CMake.  The OpenVDB Version and ABI defines are computed from the
  installation settings.  Importantly, the value of OPENVDB_ABI_VERSION_NUMBER
  now always matches the version used at build time.
- Added OPENVDB_USE_HALF, OPENVDB_USE_BLOSC and OPENVDB_USE_ZLIB as publicly
  available defines in version.h. These will be defined depending on the
  settings used to build OpenVDB.



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<B>Version 8.0.1</B> - <I>February 5, 2021</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the new CSG intersection merge algorithm where data
  outside of the intersection region was not being removed.

@par
Build:
- Fixed various incorrect RPATH directory paths in CMake
- Dropped the minimum boost requirement back to 1.61.
- Documentation installed by the doc target is now installed to the
  share/doc/OpenVDB prefix

@par
Houdini:
- VDB Combine SOP no longer attempts to invoke SDF CSG operations on bool grids
  because unary negation is undefined on bools in the template expansion.


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@par
<B>Version 8.0.0</B> - <I>December 23, 2020</I>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
This version introduces ABI changes relative to older major releases, so to
preserve ABI compatibility it might be necessary to define the macro
<TT>OPENVDB_ABI_VERSION_NUMBER=</TT><I>N</I>, where, for example,
<I>N</I> is 6 for Houdini&nbsp;18.0 and 7 for Houdini&nbsp;18.5.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Official release of OpenVDB AX, a new C++ library that implements
a domain specific JIT (just-in-time) compiled expression language,
providing users with a new way of interacting with OpenVDB data. AX is
tailored towards writing highly parallelizable and customizable OpenVDB
volume and point kernel operations. See the
<A HREF="https://www.openvdb.org/documentation/openvdbax.html">documentation</A>
for more.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
New features:
- Added @vdblink::tools::anyActiveVoxels tools::anyActiveVoxels@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::anyActiveTiles tools::anyActiveTiles@endlink that check
  if respectively active voxels or tiles in a tree intersect a given
  CoordBBox.
- Added @vdblink::tools::activeTiles tools::activeTiles@endlink that returns
  a vector containing all the active tiles in a tree that intersects a given
  CoordBBox.

@par
Improvements:
- Made LeafManager class non-virtual.

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a determinism bug in @vdblink::tree::NodeManager NodeManager@endlink
  when using non-thread-safe functor members.
- Fix @vdblink::tools::GridTransformer grid transformer tool@endlink
  construction to use correct rotate-scale-translate order when recomposing
  matrix components.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Tom&nbsp;Cnops]</I>
- OpenVDB AX: Fixed a potential code generation crash in binary, ternary
  or comma operators when errors occurred in first operand.

@anchor v8_0_0_ABI_changes
@par
ABI changes:
- @vdblink::Grid::isTreeUnique() Grid::isTreeUnique@endlink is now virtual as
  of ABI=8 so that it can be accessed from the GridBase.
- Private method RootNode::getChildCount() has been removed as of ABI=8.
- Mark map classes and functions as final for ABI=8 where beneficial to allow
  devirtualization optimization.
- As of ABI 8, Vector, Matrix and Quaternion types now satisfy the Trivial
  Type requirement. Their empty constructors and copy constructors have
  been removed (and are left to the compiler to define).
- As of ABI 8, removed an unnecessary specialization of NodeUnion and
  CopyTraits from NodeUnion.h. Replaced std::is_pod usage with
  std::is_trivially_copyable which allows more types to benefit from the
  union storage.
- As of ABI 8, PointDataGrids use the union NodeUnion specialization,
  reducing the memory footprint of their topology by 50%.

@par
API changes:
- Removed a number of deprecated point, volume and AX methods.

@par
Houdini:
- VDB to Spheres SOP doesn't reset the radius when in worldspace mode.
  VDB Write SOP should likewise not reset the compression values.

@par
Build:
- As of this release, VFX Reference Platform 2018 is no longer supported.
  CMake now issues deprecation warnings for 2019 VFX Reference Platform
  version dependencies, with the exception that OpenEXR/IlmBase 2.2 is still
  supported.
- Added a missing header include to resolve an undefined size_t build error
  on GCC10.
- Improved the python module's linkage with the CMake 3.15 Python::Module
  target. Explicitly linking with the Development target could result in
  crashes, particularly on macOS.
  [Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Alexander&nbsp;Hagen]
- Removed OPENVDB_DEPRECATED macro in favor of C++14 <TT>[[deprecated]]</TT>
  attribute.


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@par
<B>Version 7.2.3</B> - <I><March 16, 2021</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- Use copy-by-reference for the operator in a DynamicNodeManager to fix a
  performance regression.


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@par
<B>Version 7.2.2</B> - <I>February 4, 2021</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the new CSG intersection merge algorithm where data outside of
  the intersection region was not being removed.
- Fix @vdblink::tools::GridTransformer grid transformer tool@endlink
  construction to use correct rotate-scale-translate order when recomposing
  matrix components.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Tom&nbsp;Cnops]</I>

@par
Houdini:
- VDB Combine SOP no longer attempts to invoke SDF CSG operations on bool grids
  because unary negation is undefined on bools in the template expansion.
- VDB to Spheres SOP doesn't reset the radius when in worldspace mode.
  VDB Write SOP should likewise not reset the compression values.


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<B>Version 7.2.1</B> - <I>December 23, 2020</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a determinism bug in @vdblink::tree::NodeManager NodeManager@endlink
  when using non-thread-safe functor members.

@par
Build:
- Added a missing header include to resolve an undefined size_t build error
  on GCC10.


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@par
<B>Version 7.2.0</B> - <I>December 9, 2020</I>

@par
New features:
- Added @vdblink::tree::DynamicNodeManager DynamicNodeManager@endlink that
  lazily caches the nodes at each level of the tree to allow for efficient
  threading of topology-changing top-down workflows.
- Added @vdblink::tools::CsgUnionOp CsgUnionOp@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::CsgIntersectionOp CsgIntersectionOp@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::CsgDifferenceOp CsgDifferenceOp@endlink that use a parallel
  breadth-first algorithm to accelerate CSG union, intersection and difference
  operations.
- Added @vdblink::tools::TreeToMerge TreeToMerge@endlink which provides methods
  to steal or deep-copy from a tree based on the tag dispatch class used in its
  construction.
- Pre-release of OpenVDB AX, an open source C++ library that provides a
  powerful and easy way of interacting with OpenVDB volume and point data.

@par
Improvements:
- util::CpuTimer now uses C++11 chrono instead of TBB.
- Threaded the construction of LeafManager and NodeManager linear arrays.
- @vdblink::tools::csgUnion() csgUnion@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::csgIntersection() csgIntersection@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::csgDifference() csgDifference@endlink now use the new
  parallel breadth-first algorithms for much faster performance.
- Extended @vdblink::tree::NodeManager NodeManager@endlink to allow for use with
  a const tree.
- Added @vdblink::math::Abs Abs@endlink, @vdblink::math::cwiseAdd cwiseAdd@endlink,
  @vdblink::math::cwiseLessThan cwiseLessThan@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::cwiseGreaterThan cwiseGreaterThan@endlink methods for Matrix types.
  Matrix grids can now be instantiated.

@par
Houdini:
- Fixed a bug in the OpenVDB Points Convert SOP where the auto voxel
  transform was ignoring the contents of packed geometry.
- Fixed a bug in the OpenVDB Points Convert SOP where points representing
  packed geometry were also being converted.
- Fixed a bug where a Houdini SOP's verb would not be correctly associated
  with the corresponding node if the node's internal name was changed.
- Fixed bug where OpenVDB Convert SOP could revert the name attribute.

@par
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug which could cause recursive compile time instantiations of
  TypeList objects, manifesting in longer compile times.
- Deprecated util::PagedArray::push_back due to a race condition. Instead use
  util::PagedArray::ValueBuffer::push_back which is faster and thread-safe.
- Fixed various cases of undefined behavior in some LevelSetUtil methods
  [Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;fkemmler]

@par
API changes:
- Deprecated tree::LeafManager::getNodes. This method is no longer used when
  constructing a NodeManager from a LeafManager.
- Deprecated Tree::visitActiveBBox, Tree::visit and Tree::visit2 methods in
  favor of using a tree::DynamicNodeManager.
- Removed tools::CsgVisitorBase, tools::CsgVisitorUnion,
  tools::CsgVisitorIntersection and tools::CsgVisitorDifference. The CSG tools
  now use the parallel breath-first algorithms.
- Moved openvdb::TypeList from Types.h into its own header TypeList.h

@par
Build:
- Removed the Makefiles.
- Re-organised the repository layout such that each independent library
  is able to be configured against an existing installation of OpenVDB
  without ambiguous include paths.
- Upgraded CMake minimum version support to 3.12.
- Removed OPENVDB_STATIC_SPECIALIZATION macro which is no longer required.
- Fixed various compiler warnings for GCC 9.1.
- Moved to CMake doxygen commands and removed the doxygen-config files for
  doxygen documentation.
- Added USE_ZLIB compiler flag that enables zlib compression and defaults
  to on.
- Added the OPENVDB_STATICLIB define to all static builds to fix builds on
  Windows which use the multithread/DLL-specific version of the CRT.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Tobias&nbsp;Rittig]</I>
- Core library unit tests use GoogleTest instead of CppUnit.


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@par
<B>Version 7.1.0</B> - <I>August 13, 2020</I>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
As of this release, support for grid ABI=4 has been removed.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
New features:
- Added a novel parallel sparse
  @vdblink::tools::FastSweeping tools::FastSweeping@endlink class that
  outperforms our existing techniques for computing signed distance fields in
  addition to supporting velocity extension.
- Added @vdblink::tools::fogToSdf tools::fogToSdf@endlink which converts a
  scalar (fog) volume into a signed distance.
- Added @vdblink::tools::sdfToSdf tools::sdfToSdf@endlink which re-normalizes a
  signed distance field;
- Added @vdblink::tools::fogToExt tools::fogToExt@endlink which extends an
  arbitrary field (e.g. velocity) off the iso-surface of a scalar (fog) volume.
- Added @vdblink::tools::sdfToExt tools::sdfToExt@endlink which extends an
  arbitrary field (e.g. velocity) off the iso-surface of a signed distance
  field.
- Added @vdblink::tools::fogToSdfAndExt tools::fogToSdfAndExt@endlink which
  computes a signed distance and extends an arbitrary field (e.g. velocity) off
  the iso-surface of a signed distance field.
- Added @vdblink::tools::fogToSdfAndExt tools::fogToSdfAndExt@endlink which
  re-normalizes a signed distance and extends an arbitrary
  field (e.g. velocity) off the iso-surface of a signed distance field.
- Added @vdblink::tools::dilateSdf tools::dilateSdf@endlink which dilates a
  signed distance field.
- Added @vdblink::tools::maskSdf tools::maskSdf@endlink which extends an
  existing signed distance into a user-defined mask.
- Added @vdblink::Grid::isTreeUnique() Grid::isTreeUnique@endlink to tell if
  the tree is shared with another grid.
- Added @vdblink::points::PointDataLeafNode::stealAttributeSet()
  PointDataLeafNode::stealAttributeSet@endlink and
  @vdblink::points::AttributeSet::removeAttribute()
  AttributeSet::removeAttribute@endlink for releasing ownership of attribute
  data.
- Added AttributeSet::Descriptor::groupIndexCollision for detecting group index
  collisions when attempting to merge two Descriptors.
- Added @vdblink{tree::RootNode::childCount,RootNode::childCount},
  @vdblink{tree::InternalNode::childCount,InternalNode::childCount} and
  @vdblink{tree::LeafNode::childCount,LeafNode::childCount} to count
  the number of immediate child nodes that exist below the current node.

@par
Improvements:
- Added GroupWriteHandle::setUnsafe() for faster performance when the group
  array is known to be in-core and non-uniform.
- Add support for default value metadata when creating AttributeArrays or
  appending to an AttributeSet.
- Added new group inspection methods to the
  @vdblink::points::AttributeSet::Descriptor AttributeSet::Descriptor@endlink.
- Introduced a @vdblink::points::StringMetaCache StringMetaCache@endlink class
  for convenient string attribute metadata lookup and performed some minor
  optimizations.
- Removed redundant floor in @vdblink::points::floatingPointToFixedPoint
  floatingPointToFixedPoint@endlink.
- Add gitignore to repository root.
- Removed some logic for compilers older than Visual Studio 2019.
- Add a new Houdini ABI test binary.
- Fixed an indexing typo in tools::Filter.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Yuanming&nbsp;Hu]</I>
- Removed redundant null pointer checks.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Kuba&nbsp;Roth]</I>
- Added support for vdb_view on Windows. Requires GLEW.
- Removed support for GLFW&nbsp;2.
- vdb_view now uses OPENVDB_LOG_FATAL when catching exceptions.
- vdb_view, vdb_print and vdb_render now use std::terminate() when catching an
  unknown exception.
- Removed Boost::thread as a dependency of vdb_view in favour of std::thread.
- Removed usage of boost/integer.hpp and boost/math/constants/constants.hpp,
  the latter in favour of new openvdb math constants for pi
- Removed usage of boost/mpl/\*.hpp methods in favour of new template
  meta-programming methods on the @vdblink::TypeList TypeList@endlink struct.
  This now supports get, front, back, contains, index, unique, popback, popfront
  and range removal of types.
- Changed the @vdblink::tree::NodeChain tree::NodeChain@endlink implementation
  to use an @vdblink::TypeList TypeList@endlink rather than a boost::mpl::vector
  and updated all usage of @vdblink::tree::NodeChain tree::NodeChain@endlink
  accordingly.

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug where grids with no active values might return true when the
  method <TT>evalActiveVoxelBoundingBox</TT> is called. The correct behavior is to
  only return true if the grid contains any active values.
- Fixed a sign propagation bug in @vdblink::tools::traceExteriorBoundaries()
  tools::traceExteriorBoundaries@endlink used by @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume()
  tools::meshToVolume@endlink. This could cause values to not be propagated across
  node boundaries, leading to voxels incorrectly being marked as inside the
  isosurface.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Tristan&nbsp;Barback]</I>
- Fixed a rotation order bug in the @vdblink::tools::local_util::decompose()
  decompose@endlink utility that caused it to fail to decompose some matrices.
- Fixed a bug where @vdblink::math::Quat::inverse() Quat::inverse@endlink was
  not marked as const.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Michael&nbsp;Tao]</I>
- Fixed a bug in the unit test for util::CpuTimer on Windows by using a more
  accurate sleep implementation.
- Fixed a bug where the requested uniform value of an
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray AttributeArray@endlink was not being applied
  on attribute creation if the default attribute value was not the default
  value for that value type.
- Fixed a compiler error when using C++17 by changing std::unexpected() to
  std::terminate().
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Mark&nbsp;Sisson]</I>

@par
API changes:
- Removed a number of deprecated point methods.
- points::StringIndexType is now deprecated, use @vdblink::Index Index@endlink
  instead.
- @vdblink{tools::PointPartitioner::voxelOffsets(),PointPartitioner::voxelOffsets}
  now returns a std::unique_ptr instead of a boost::scoped_array.
- Renamed AttributeSet::Descriptor::nextUnusedGroupOffset() to
  AttributeSet::Descriptor::unusedGroupOffset() to allow for providing an
  optional group offset hint.

@par
Houdini:
- Platonic SOP is now verbified.
- Extend all SOP references to support VDB Points.
- Combine SOP will not error in flatten-all mode if second has no grids.
- Changed the label (but not the opname) of
  Resize&nbsp;Narrow&nbsp;Band&nbsp;SOP to match the corresponding native
  Houdini SOP. The new label is Activate&nbsp;SDF.
- Fixed a bug by using @c GEO_Detail::getBBox() instead of
  @c GEO_Detail::computeQuickBounds() as the latter was incorrectly using the
  point of the VDB when computing bounding box. SOPs affected include Clip,
  Fill, Points Group, Rasterize Points, Read, Remove Divergence.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Kuba&nbsp;Roth]</I>
- OpenVDB from Polygons SOP now always displays the vector UI, as otherwise
  it might be stuck hidden if the input hasn't cooked.
- OpenVDB from Polygons and OpenVDB from Particles SOPs no longer require input
  geometry to have been cooked to offer a choice of attributes, the user may
  now also type in a value.

@par
Build:
- Improved the CMake build for the OpenVDB Houdini library on Windows.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Ian&nbsp;Woodward]</I>
- Remove some logic for compilers older than Visual&nbsp;Studio&nbsp;2019.
- Fixed a bug in the CMake FindIlmBase/OpenEXR modules which could cause
  compilers on UNIX systems to fail to find stdlib.h if IlmBase/OpenEXR
  headers were installed to /usr/include.
- CMake now checks the minimum supported MSVC compiler for Windows.
- CMake now only requires a CXX compiler.
- Improved the Windows README instructions and various MSVC warnings.
- Remove CMake warning when using GLFW 3.2+ on Debian.
- Various fixes to unary minus on unsigned compiler warnings.
- The defines <TT>_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS</TT> and <TT>_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS</TT>
  are now enabled by default with MSVC.
- New CMake option <TT>OPENVDB_BUILD_PYTHON_UNITTESTS</TT> to disable or
  enable the python module tests and fixed the required environment for them
  on Windows. The python interpreter is no longer required by default if the
  tests are disabled.
- Improved the CMake user messages when locating python and numpy.
- The python module extension is now .pyd on Windows.
- Fixed some build issues with the Houdini plugin on Windows.
- Standardized the library components install paths for the OpenVDB
  Houdini shared library.
- Added a USE_PKGCONFIG option to CMake to optionally disable use of pkg-config.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Kartik&nbsp;Shrivastava]</I>
- Standardized the dependency search paths in FindPackage modules using
  GNU install paths.
- Added better library type detection of dependencies through FindPackage
  modules on UNIX.
- Added missing TBB, OpenEXR and IlmBase defines for static builds on
  Windows through the relevant FindPackage modules.
- Improved the logic in FindOpenVDB for static builds.
- Fixed a compiler warning on Apple Clang 11.0 where the
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray AttributeArray@endlink move constructor was
  being implicitly deleted despite being marked default.
- Added an option <TT>BLOSC_USE_EXTERNAL_SOURCES</TT> to FindBlosc to include
  blosc dependencies as interface libraries.
- Added a root CMake option <TT>USE_STATIC_DEPENDENCIES</TT> to force CMake to
  only locate static libraries on UNIX. On Windows, if enabled, located
  libraries are assumed to be static.
- Added support for <TT>CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY</TT> for compilers that
  target the MSVC ABI. Requires CMake 3.15 or greater.
- Fixed an issue where <TT>OPENVDB_OPENEXR_STATICLIB</TT> was not being defined
  and <TT>OPENEXR_DLL</TT> was being defined when linking against static builds
  of OpenEXR/IlmBase on Windows.
- Improved the behaviour of boost implicit linking with the
  Boost::disable_autolinking target.
- Added support for importing pyopenvdb and openvdb_houdini through the
  FindOpenVDB CMake module
- Removed the @c OPENVDB_2_ABI_COMPATIBLE and @c OPENVDB_3_ABI_COMPATIBLE
  macros.
- Fixed a few GCC compiler warnings by adding override keywords.
  <I>[Contributed by Edward&nbsp;Lam]</I>
- jemalloc/tbbmalloc are no longer linked into library artifacts of the
  OpenVDB CMake build. The @c CONCURRENT_MALLOC CMake option now only applies
  to the executables.
- Introduced a new @c OpenVDB::openvdb_je interface target through the
  FindOpenVDB CMake module which adds Jemalloc as a link time dependency.
- CMake build fix for the vdb_render binary on Windows when building
  statically and using OpenEXR 2.5


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@par
<B>Version 7.0.0</B> - <I>December 6, 2019</I>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Some changes in this release (see @ref v7_0_0_ABI_changes "ABI changes" below)
alter the grid&nbsp;ABI so that it is incompatible with earlier versions of
the OpenVDB library, such as the ones built into Houdini up to and including
Houdini&nbsp;18.
To preserve ABI compatibility, when compiling OpenVDB or any dependent code
define the macro <TT>OPENVDB_ABI_VERSION_NUMBER=</TT><I>N</I>, where,
for example, <I>N</I> is 5 for Houdini&nbsp;17.0 and&nbsp;17.5 and 6 for
Houdini&nbsp;18.0.

As of this release, a C++14 compiler is required and the oldest supported
Houdini version is 17.0.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
New features:
- @vdblink{tools::LevelSetMeasure, tools::LevelSetMeasure} can now compute multiple
  types of curvatures (averge and total Gaussian and mean curvature) as well as
  Euler characteristic and genus of level set surfaces.
- Most stencil classes now have an intersection method that detcts the axial
  directions of zero-crossings (as oppose to the existing boolean intersection test).
- The @vdblink{math::CurvatureStencil, math::CurvatureStencil} can now compute
  Gaussian and principal curvatures (in addition to mean curvature).
- Added @vdblink{tree::Tree::nodeCount,Tree::nodeCount}, which counts
  the number and type of nodes in a tree very efficiently.
- Added new @vdblink::tree::RootNode::addChild() RootNode::addChild@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::InternalNode::addChild() InternalNode::addChild@endlink methods to
  allow the insertion of child nodes directly.

@par
Improvements:
- The minimum ABI for OpenVDB is now always enforced through CMake
  separately from other minimum dependency version variables.
- Added support for CMake 3.12 compatible @c Xxx_ROOT variables.
- Replaced the CMake @c USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATHS option with
  @c DISABLE_CMAKE_SEARCH_PATHS and removed the hard coded list of
  @c SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATHS in favor of using CMake's default search procedure.
  @c SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATHS can still be used as a global list of paths for all
  dependency searches.
- Improvements to OpenVDB's CMake module setup order in regards to CMake
  policy, minimum version and project calls.
- Replaced occurrences of boost::scoped_array with std::unique_ptr.
- Added an OPENVDB_SIMD option to CMake to optionally define SSE4.2 and
  AVX compiler flags, this is switched off by default.
- Made various small changes to improve Visual Studio compatiblity and
  deprecate some logic for compilers older than Visual Studio&nbsp;2017.
- Standardized CMake install locations using GNUInstallDirs. Importantly,
  this changes the default library installation folder from lib to lib64
  on some 64-bit systems, or to lib/multiarch-tuple on Debian
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;David&nbsp;Aguilar]</I>
- Added SIMD intrinsics to a few common NodeMask methods.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Konstantin]</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in <TT>FindJemalloc.cmake</TT> where paths were not being handled
  correctly.
- Fixed a Windows build issue in openvdb_render.
- Fixed a non deterministic threading bug in @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume()
  mesh to volume@endlink during polygon voxelization which could result in
  different distance values.

@anchor v7_0_0_ABI_changes
@par
ABI changes:
- OpFactory destructor is now virtual as of ABI=7
- Added new virtual methods for copying const grids and replacing
  the metadata and/or the transform -
  @vdblink::GridBase::copyGridReplacingMetadata() GridBase::copyGridReplacingMetadata@endlink,
  @vdblink::GridBase::copyGridReplacingTransform() GridBase::copyGridReplacingTransform@endlink
  and @vdblink::GridBase::copyGridReplacingMetadataAndTransform()
  GridBase::copyGridReplacingMetadataAndTransform@endlink.
- AttributeArray copy constructor is now thread-safe.

@par
API changes:
- @vdblink{tools::VolumeToMesh::pointList(),VolumeToMesh::pointList} and
  @vdblink{tools::VolumeToMesh::polygonPoolList(),VolumeToMesh::polygonPoolList}
  now return a std::unique_ptr instead of a boost::scoped_array.
- AttributeArray::copyUncompressed is now deprecated.

@par
Python:
- Removed the requirement of CMake&nbsp;3.14 for NumPy usage.
- Added support for Boost versions 1.65 and later when building
  the Python module with NumPy support through CMake.
- Improved CMake Python3 support.
- The Python Module is now disabled by default in CMake.

@par
Houdini:
- Fixed a bug in the Points Convert SOP during conversion from
  Houdini geometry to OpenVDB Points, where point group information could
  end up corrupted or cause a crash with non-contiguous point offsets (mesh
  inputs).
- Threaded the population of point group memberships during conversion from
  Houdini geometry to OpenVDB Points
- Added logic to the Rasterize&nbsp;Points SOP to suppress the output of
  non-finite attribute values due to subnormal input densities.
- Introduced a position compression option to the Scatter&nbsp;SOP for VDB
  Points and default to 16-bit fixed point.


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@par
<B>Version 6.2.1</B> - <I>September 30, 2019</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a crash that arose from an inadvertent ABI change of an I/O class
  with the 6.2.0 release.
  The crash occured when attempting to write out
  a point data grid using an I/O routine from a different version of
  OpenVDB than the one with which the grid was authored and when
  one of those OpenVDB versions was 6.2.0.


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@par
<B>Version 6.2.0</B> - <I>September 18, 2019</I>

@par
New features:
- Added @vdblink{tools::FindActiveValues,FindActiveValues}, which counts
  the active values in a tree that intersect a given bounding box.
- Added @vdblink{io::DelayedLoadMetadata,DelayedLoadMetadata}, which stores
  mask offsets and compression sizes on write to accelerate delayed load
  reading.

@par
Improvements:
- @vdblink{tree::LeafNode::modifyValue(),LeafNode::modifyValue} and
  @vdblink{tree::LeafNode::modifyValueAndActiveState(),
  LeafNode::modifyValueAndActiveState} now modify voxel values
  in place for improved performance.
- Added @vdblink{math::isInfinite(),math::isInfinite} and
  @vdblink{math::isNan(),math::isNan} to resolve Visual&nbsp;Studio
  compatibility issues with integer types.
- Made minor performance improvements to moving and filtering VDB points.
- Improved performance related to a mutex contention when appending
  multiple @vdblink{points::AttributeArray,AttributeArray}<I></I>s
  in parallel through various point operations.
- Significantly improved the performance of
  @vdblink::tools::createLevelSetSphere() createLevelSetSphere@endlink
  using threading.
- Improved directory and file path lookups of some CMake commands in
  the root <TT>CMakeLists.txt</TT>.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Daniel&nbsp;Elliott]</I>
- Improved CMake support for GLFW versions 3.1 and later.
- <TT>FindOpenVDB.cmake</TT> now correctly propagates @c CXX version
  requirements.
- Added CMake support for linking against Jemalloc and TBB&nbsp;malloc
  and enabled Jemalloc by default for Linux and non-Maya builds
  and TBB&nbsp;malloc for all other builds.
- Added a @c USE_COLORED_OUTPUT option to CMake to display compiler output
  in color.
- Added an @c OPENVDB_CODE_COVERAGE option to CMake.
- CMake now automatically detects and configures the CXX11 ABI requirement
  for Houdini builds.
- CMake now issues deprecation warnings for 2017 VFX Reference Platform
  version dependencies. In particular, C++11-only compilers are now
  deprecated; OpenVDB&nbsp;7.0 will require a C++14-compatible compiler.

@par
Bug fixes:
- Replaced @b std::vector with @b std::deque as the underlying container
  for @vdblink{util::PagedArray,PagedArray}, to address a rare crash
  when reading from multiple threads while writing from another thread.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an empty
  @vdblink{math::CoordBBox::volume(),CoordBBox} to report nonzero volume.
- Fixed a bug in
  @vdblink{tools::computeScalarPotential(),computeScalarPotential}
  that could produce a corrupt result due to invalid memory access.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Edwin&nbsp;Braun]</I>
- Partially reverted the
  @vdblink{tools::ClosestSurfacePoint,ClosestSurfacePoint}
  tool&rsquo;s distance calculations to their pre-OpenVDB&nbsp;5.0 behavior
  to address a bug in the
  @vdblink{tools::fillWithSpheres(),fillWithSpheres} tool
  that caused generated spheres to sometimes extend outside the target volume.
- CMake now correctly sets rpaths for the unit test binary.
- Addressed a Valgrind warning by allocating the point attribute array
  @vdblink{points::AttributeArray::registerType,registry}
  using a Meyers singleton.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Autodesk]</I>

@par
ABI changes:
- ABI versions&nbsp;3 and older are now deprecated, and support for them will
  be removed in a future release.
  Until then, define the macro @c OPENVDB_USE_DEPRECATED_ABI (or set the
  CMake @c OPENVDB_USE_DEPRECATED_ABI option to @c ON) to suppress deprecation
  messages when compiling OpenVDB or dependent code.

@par
API changes:
- Changed @vdblink{points::RandomLeafFilter::LeafMap,RandomLeafFilter::LeafMap}
  from a @b std::map to a @b std::unordered_map.
- Removed the @b TableT template argument from
  @vdblink{util::PagedArray,PagedArray}.
  The table type is now hardcoded to @b std::deque.
- The minimum supported version of GLFW is now&nbsp;3.1.

@par
Python:
- CMake now always produces a <TT>.so</TT> for the Python module
  on Linux and Unix platforms.
- Fixed a compile-time error when building the Python module for Python&nbsp;3.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;yurivict]</I>

@par
Houdini:
- OpenVDB SOPs are now displayed in an ASWF sub-menu of the VDB tab menu.
- Added API documentation and examples.
- Added @hvdblink{GEOvdbApply,GEOvdbApply}, which invokes a functor
  on a VDB primitive if the resolved grid type is a member of
  a given type list.
- Fixed a regression in the Fill&nbsp;SOP that caused it to modify VDBs
  in the input detail.
- The Combine&nbsp;SOP no longer crashes in <B>Copy&nbsp;B</B> mode when the
  destination is not a&nbsp;VDB.
- Added an @hulink{OpFactory::addSpareData(),OpFactory::addSpareData} method
  and @hulink{addOperatorSpareData(),addOperatorSpareData} and
  @hulink{getOperatorSpareData(),getOperatorSpareData} functions
  to manage spare data associated with operator types.
- Added an @c opsparedata HScript command and @c hou.NodeType.spareData
  and @c hou.NodeType.spareDataDict methods to retrieve spare data
  associated with operator types.
- Added a <TT>pythonrc.py</TT> startup script to set the tab menu visibility
  of nodes and their native Houdini equivalents, based on an
  <TT>OPENVDB_OPHIDE_POLICY</TT> environment variable.
- Added an @hulink{OpFactory::setInvisible(),OpFactory::setInvisible} method
  to hide nodes from tab menus.
- Added an
  @hvdblink{OpenVDBOpFactory::setNativeName(),OpenVDBOpFactory::setNativeName}
  method to pair OpenVDB nodes with their native Houdini equivalents.
- Added an @hulink{OpPolicy::getTabSubMenuPath(),OpPolicy::getTabSubMenuPath}
  method to allow @b OpPolicy subclasses to provide their own tab sub-menu path.
- OpenVDB nodes now override @b OP_Operator::getVersion to return
  a version string of the form @c "vdb6.2.0 houdini18.0.222".


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@par
<B>Version 6.1.0</B> - <I>May 8, 2019</I>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
As of this release, the oldest supported Houdini version is&nbsp;16.5.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
New features:
- Added new @vdblink::QuatTraits QuatTraits@endlink,
  @vdblink::MatTraits MatTraits@endlink and
  @vdblink::ValueTraits ValueTraits@endlink type traits to complement
  @vdblink::VecTraits VecTraits@endlink and added an
  @vdblink::IsSpecializationOf IsSpecializationOf@endlink
  helper metafunction.
- Added support for @vdblink::Vec4SMetadata Vec4s@endlink,
  @vdblink::Vec4DMetadata Vec4d@endlink
  and @vdblink::Vec4IMetadata Vec4i@endlink metadata.
- Added a generic @vdblink::TypeList TypeList@endlink class.
- Added @vdblink::GridBase::apply() GridBase::apply@endlink,
  which invokes a functor on a grid if the resolved grid type
  is a member of a given type list.
- Added @vdblink::util::printTime() printTime@endlink, which outputs
  nicely formatted time information.
- Added a @link std::hash<openvdb::math::Coord> std::hash<Coord>@endlink
  template specialization.
- Added @vdblink::math::CoordBBox::moveMin moveMin@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::CoordBBox::moveMax moveMax@endlink methods to
  @vdblink::math::CoordBBox CoordBBox@endlink.

@par
Improvements:
- @vdblink::util::CpuTimer CpuTimer@endlink now makes use of
  @vdblink::util::printTime() printTime@endlink for nicer output,
  and its API has been improved.
- Significantly improved the performance of point data grid string attribute
  generation.
- @vdblink::points::AttributeArray::copy() AttributeArray::copy@endlink
  and the
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray::operator=() AttributeArray@endlink
  copy assignment operator are now thread-safe.
- The command-line tools (<TT>vdb_print</TT>, etc.) now include
  the library ABI version in their <TT>-version</TT> output.
- Further improved the responsiveness of the
  @link MeshToVolume.h mesh to volume@endlink converter to interrupt requests.
- The CMake build system has been significantly improved to support a
  wider range of build options and use cases.
  This includes better dependency handling and status reporting, find module
  installation for external use, more robust handling of different platform
  configurations and the introduction of dependency and build documentation.

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in the @link tools/Clip.h clip@endlink tool that caused
  some grid metadata to be discarded.
- Added a check to @vdblink::points::setGroup() points::setGroup@endlink
  to compare the maximum index of the provided
  @vdblink::tools::PointIndexTree PointIndexTree@endlink
  to the size of the membership vector.
- Fixed a race condition introduced in ABI&nbsp;6 when moving points
  in point data grids, due to non-const access to an
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray AttributeArray@endlink
  triggering a copy-on-write.
- Fixed a bug that caused the @link MeshToVolume.h mesh to volume@endlink
  converter to consume unlimited memory when it encountered NaNs
  in vertex positions.
- Fixed a rounding error bug in
  @link PointConversion.h point conversion@endlink when using
  single-precision floating-point.
- Addressed some type conversion issues and other issues reported by
  GCC&nbsp;6.
- Fixed a crash in @vdblink::tools::extractActiveVoxelSegmentMasks()
  extractActiveVoxelSegmentMasks@endlink
  when the first leaf node had no active voxels.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Rick&nbsp;Hankins]</I>
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::tools::segmentActiveVoxels() segmentActiveVoxels@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::segmentSDF() segmentSDF@endlink where inactive leaf
  nodes were only pruned when there was more than one segment.
- Fixed a crash in point moving when using group filters.
- Fixed a bug where the stride of existing attributes was being ignored during
  copy-construction of an @vdblink::points::AttributeSet AttributeSet@endlink.
- Fixed a bug that caused @vdblink::points::AttributeArray::operator==()
  AttributeArray@endlink equality operators to fail for attributes
  with non-constant strides.

@par
API changes:
- Moved the @vdblink::CopyConstness CopyConstness@endlink metafunction from
  @link tree/TreeIterator.h TreeIterator.h@endlink to @link Types.h Types.h@endlink.

@par
Houdini:
- The Points&nbsp;Convert SOP now reports NaN Positions as warnings when
  converting from Houdini Points to VDB Points.
- Fixed a bug where the Points&nbsp;Convert&nbsp;SOP was incorrectly ignoring
  point attributes with the same name as an existing point group.
- The Transform&nbsp;SOP now supports frustum transforms by applying the
  transformation to the internal affine map.
- Changed the labels (but not the opnames) of several SOPs to match
  the corresponding native Houdini SOPs.
  The new labels are Morph&nbsp;SDF, Project&nbsp;Non-Divergent,
  Rebuild&nbsp;SDF, Renormalize&nbsp;SDF, Reshape&nbsp;SDF,
  Segment&nbsp;by&nbsp;Connectivity, Smooth&nbsp;SDF,
  Topology&nbsp;to&nbsp;SDF, and Visualize&nbsp;Tree.
- Added an @b OpPolicy::getFirstName method to allow @b OpPolicy subclasses
  to provide their own first name scheme.
- Added an @b OpPolicy::getLabelName method to allow @b OpPolicy subclasses
  to provide their own label naming scheme for tab menus.
- Added type lists for sets of commonly used grid types, including
  @b ScalarGridTypes, @b Vec3GridTypes, @b AllGridTypes, etc.
- The Vector&nbsp;Merge SOP now copies metadata from the representative
  scalar grid.
- Deprecated @b SOP_NodeVDB::duplicateSourceStealable,
  @b houdini_utils::getNodeChain and @b houdini_utils::OP_EvalScope.

@par
Python:
- Added limited support for @ref secPtContents "point data grids",
  comprising I/O and metadata functionality for now.
- Added support for @vdblink::Mat4SMetadata Mat4s@endlink
  and @vdblink::Mat4DMetadata Mat4d@endlink metadata, in the form of nested
  Python lists (e.g., <TT>[[1,0,0,0], [0,1,0,0], [0,0,1,0], [0,0,0,1]]</TT>).


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@par
<B>Version 6.0.0</B> - <I>December 18, 2018</I>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Some changes in this release (see @ref v6_0_0_ABI_changes "ABI changes" below)
alter the grid&nbsp;ABI so that it is incompatible with earlier versions of
the OpenVDB library, such as the ones built into Houdini up to and including
Houdini&nbsp;17.
To preserve ABI compatibility, when compiling OpenVDB or any dependent code
define the macro <TT>OPENVDB_ABI_VERSION_NUMBER=</TT><I>N</I>, where,
for example, <I>N</I> is 3 for Houdini&nbsp;15, 15.5 and&nbsp;16,
4 for Houdini&nbsp;16.5 and 5 for Houdini&nbsp;17.0.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
New features:
- Added support to the
  @link ParticlesToLevelSet.h ParticlesToLevelSet@endlink tool
  for fast rasterization of particles into boolean mask grids.
- Added convenience functions
  @vdblink::tools::particlesToSdf() particlesToSdf@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::particleTrailsToSdf() particleTrailsToSdf@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::particlesToMask() particlesToMask@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::particleTrailsToMask() particleTrailsToMask@endlink
  for common particle rasterization use cases.
- Added batch copying functions @vdblink::points::AttributeArray::copyValues()
  AttributeArray::copyValues@endlink and
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray::copyValuesUnsafe()
  AttributeArray::copyValuesUnsafe@endlink that significantly outperform
  the older AttributeArray::set() method.

@par
Improvements:
- Improved the responsiveness of the
  @link MeshToVolume.h mesh to volume@endlink converter to interrupt requests.
- Attempts to use a partially deserialized
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray AttributeArray@endlink now errors.
- Updated point deletion to use faster batch copying for ABI=6+.
- Methods relating to in-memory Blosc compression for
  AttributeArray::compress() now do nothing and have been marked deprecated
  resulting in memory savings for ABI=6+.

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed various signed/unsigned casting issues to resolve compiler warnings
  when moving points in point data grids.

@anchor v6_0_0_ABI_changes
@par
ABI changes:
- Added multiple new virtual functions to
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray AttributeArray@endlink.
- Changed the order and size of member variables in
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray AttributeArray@endlink
  and @vdblink::points::TypedAttributeArray TypedAttributeArray@endlink.

@par
API changes:
- Removed a number of methods that were deprecated in version&nbsp;5.0.0 or
  earlier.
- Removed the experimental @b ValueAccessor::newSetValue method.
- Deprecated AttributeArray::compress() methods relating to in-memory Blosc
  compression.

@par
Houdini:
- The Convert and To&nbsp;Polygons SOPs now correctly transfer vertex
  attributes when the output is a polygon soup.
- Added an option to the Visualize&nbsp;SOP to display leaf nodes as points.
- Renamed the Visualize&nbsp;SOP&rsquo;s <TT>leafmode</TT>,
  <TT>internalmode</TT>, <TT>tilemode</TT> and <TT>voxelmode</TT> parameters
  to <TT>leafstyle</TT>, <TT>internalstyle</TT>, etc. and converted them
  from ordinals to strings.
- Made various improvements to viewport rendering of point data grids.
- Added a <B>ParmFactory::setInvisible</B> method to allow parameters
  to be marked as hidden.  This is useful for multi-parms,
  whose child parameters cannot be made obsolete.
- Removed the option to use in-memory Blosc compression from the
  Points&nbsp;Convert&nbsp;SOP as this feature has now been deprecated.
- Made various small changes for Houdini&nbsp;17 compatibility.


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@par
<B>Version 5.2.0</B> - <I>August 13, 2018</I>

@par
New features:
- Added @link points/PointAdvect.h tools@endlink to advect points
  stored in point data grids through velocity fields.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- For point data grids, voxel data can now be
  @vdblink::points::prefetch() prefetched@endlink independently of
  position or other attributes.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Added @link points/PointSample.h tools@endlink to sample voxel values
  onto points stored in point data grids.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>

@par
Improvements:
- The @vdblink::tools::UniformPointScatter UniformPointScatter@endlink tool
  now generates points in &ldquo;points per volume&rdquo; mode even when
  the product of the density and the voxel volume is less than one,
  and the point count now varies continuously with the density.
- Added a minimum/maximum sphere count argument to the
  @vdblink::tools::fillWithSpheres() fillWithSpheres@endlink tool.
  (The previous version, now deprecated, supported only a maximum
  sphere count.)
- Added a method to the level set tracking tool to enable and disable
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetTracker::setTrimming() trimming@endlink
  of voxels outside the narrow band.
  Previously, trimming was always enabled, which caused dense SDFs
  to be converted to narrow-band level sets.
- Added @b state methods to point data
  @link points/IndexFilter.h index filters@endlink to improve
  optimization opportunities.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Added @vdblink::points::ActiveFilter active@endlink
  and @vdblink::points::InactiveFilter inactive@endlink value mask
  point data index filters.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Replaced include/exclude group list parameters with filter functors
  in various point data functions.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Refactored and simplified the
  @link points/PointCount.h point count@endlink API.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Computing cumulative per-leaf point offsets is now parallelized.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Made various small changes for Visual Studio&nbsp;2017 compatibility.
  <I>[Contributed by Edward&nbsp;Lam]</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that could cause an infinite loop when iterating over
  an empty root node.
- Fixed namespace-related bugs in
  @vdblink::math::Tuple::isZero() Tuple::isZero@endlink
  and @vdblink::math::Mat::isZero() Mat::isZero@endlink that led to
  compile-time errors.
- Fixed type conversion bugs in the vector-to-vector <A HREF=
  "namespaceopenvdb_1_1v5__2_1_1math.html#rotation_v1_v2"><B>rotation</B></A>
  function that made it impossible for it to return a single-precision
  rotation matrix, and modified the function to accept @b Vec3 arguments
  of any value type.
- Fixed a bug in the @link MeshToVolume.h mesh to volume@endlink converter
  that made it uninterruptible in certain cases even though
  an interrupter was provided.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Doug&nbsp;Epps]</I>

@par
Houdini:
- Added an option to the From&nbsp;Particles&nbsp;SOP to output an
  interior mask grid.
- Added options to the Metadata&nbsp;SOP to set the grid name
  and to propagate metadata to primitive attributes and vice-versa.
- Modified <A HREF=
  "http://www.sidefx.com/docs/hdk16.5/class_g_u___prim_v_d_b.html#af9274e93cc2d5d8d1f001aa7a286180a">
  <B>convertVolumesToVDBs</B></A> to set the output VDBs&rsquo; grid names
  to the names of the volume primitives.
- Added an option to the Offset&nbsp;Level&nbsp;Set,
  Renormalize&nbsp;Level&nbsp;Set, Smooth&nbsp;Level&nbsp;Set
  and Resize&nbsp;Narrow&nbsp;Band&nbsp;SOPs to enable and disable
  trimming of voxels outside the narrow band.
  Previously, trimming was always enabled, which caused dense SDFs
  to be converted to narrow-band level sets.
- Fixed a bug in the Resample&nbsp;SOP that prevented it from reading
  a reference VDB from the second input.
- Added an option to the Scatter&nbsp;SOP to scatter points only on
  an isosurface of a signed distance field.
- The Scatter&nbsp;SOP now generates points in Point&nbsp;Density mode
  even when the product of the density and the voxel volume is less than one,
  and the point count now varies continuously with the density.
- Added a minimum sphere count option to the To&nbsp;Spheres&nbsp;SOP.
- Added enable/disable toggles to the To&nbsp;Spheres&nbsp;SOP&rsquo;s
  minimum and maximum radius parameters and eliminated the world space
  radius parameters.
  The remaining minimum and maximum parameters, formerly the voxel space
  radii, are now used in both world unit and voxel unit modes.
- Added transform and rotation order options to the Transform&nbsp;SOP.
- Added support to the Advect&nbsp;Points&nbsp;SOP for advecting points
  stored in point data grids.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Added support to the Sample&nbsp;Points&nbsp;SOP for sampling onto points
  stored in point data grids.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>


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@par
<B>Version 5.1.0</B> - <I>April 10, 2018</I>

@par
New features:
- Added an option to
  @vdblink::points::deleteFromGroups() points::deleteFromGroups@endlink
  to delete the groups as well as the points.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Nick&nbsp;Avramoussis]</I>
- Added a @c header_test Makefile target that checks library header files
  for dependencies on missing or indirectly included headers.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Added support for @vdblink::math::Mat3s Mat3s@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::Mat3d Mat3d@endlink point data
  @vdblink::points::TypedAttributeArray typed attributes@endlink.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>

@par
Improvements:
- Added per-test timings to <TT>vdb_test</TT> to help in identifying
  performance regressions.
- @vdblink::zeroVal zeroVal@endlink now returns a zero matrix instead of
  an identity matrix for @vdblink::math::Mat4s Mat4s@endlink
  and @vdblink::math::Mat4d Mat4d@endlink, and it is now also defined
  (and returns a zero matrix) for @vdblink::math::Mat3s Mat3s@endlink
  and @vdblink::math::Mat3d Mat3d@endlink.

@par
Python:
- Fixed a bug introduced in version&nbsp;3.2.0 that caused
  boolean and integer values added to a grid&rsquo;s metadata
  to be stored as floating-point values.

@par
Houdini:
- Added options to the Clip&nbsp;SOP to expand or shrink the clipping region
  and, when clipping to a camera frustum, to set the near and far
  clipping planes.
- Added output grid naming options to the Points&nbsp;Convert&nbsp;SOP.
- Added a Keep&nbsp;Original&nbsp;Geometry toggle to the
  Points&nbsp;Convert&nbsp;SOP and improved the efficiency of point unpacking.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Added an option to the Points&nbsp;Delete&nbsp;SOP to delete point groups.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Nick&nbsp;Avramoussis]</I>
- Fixed a rare crash when extracting points from a point data primitive.
  <I>[Contributed by Jeff&nbsp;Lait]</I>
- Added a @b SOP_NodeVDB::evalStdString method that facilitates
  string parameter evaluation in expressions, e.g.,
  <TT>matchGroup(*gdp,&nbsp;evalStdString("group",&nbsp;time))</TT>.
- Removed the deprecated @b openvdb_houdini::validateGeometry function.
  Use @b convertGeometry instead.
- Added a @b SOP_NodeVDB::matchGroup overload that eliminates the need
  to @c const_cast the @b GU_Detail.
  <I>[Contributed by Jeff&nbsp;Lait]</I>
- Grid transforms are now more aggressively simplified, making it less likely
  to produce nonuniform voxels erroneously.
  <I>[Contributed by Jeff&nbsp;Lait]</I>
- Fixed a bug when copying and pasting a Create&nbsp;SOP that could cause
  the Voxel&nbsp;Size toggle to change state.
- Added a @b houdini_utils::OpFactory::setVerb method to register
  <A HREF="http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/model/compile">
  compilable</A>&nbsp;SOPs.
- Made @b SOP_NodeVDB::cookMySop @c final (that is, non-overridable)
  to facilitate the implementation of compilable SOPs.
  Override @b SOP_NodeVDB::cookVDBSop instead.
  (In most cases, it suffices to rename @b cookMySop to @b cookVDBSop.)
- Renamed some parameters on the following SOPs to match the equivalent
  native Houdini nodes: Advect, Advect&nbsp;Points, Analysis, Combine, Filter,
  Fracture, From&nbsp;Particles, From&nbsp;Polygons, Morph&nbsp;Level&nbsp;Set,
  Occlusion&nbsp;Mask, Offset&nbsp;Level&nbsp;Set, Points&nbsp;Group, Resample,
  Resize&nbsp;Narrow&nbsp;Band, Smooth&nbsp;Level&nbsp;Set,
  Topology&nbsp;To&nbsp;Level&nbsp;Set, Vector&nbsp;Merge, and Visualize.
- Added @b SOP_VDBCacheOptions, a convenience base class for
  compilable&nbsp;SOPs.
  <I>[Contributed by Jeff&nbsp;Lait]</I>
- Converted most SOPs into compilable SOPs.


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@par
<B>Version 5.0.0</B> - <I>November 6, 2017</I>

@par
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Some changes in this release (see @ref v5_0_0_ABI_changes "ABI changes" below)
alter the grid&nbsp;ABI so that it is incompatible with earlier versions of
the OpenVDB library, such as the ones built into Houdini up to and including
Houdini&nbsp;16.
To preserve ABI compatibility, when compiling OpenVDB or any dependent code
define the macro <TT>OPENVDB_ABI_VERSION_NUMBER=</TT><I>N</I>, where,
for example, <I>N</I> is 3 for Houdini&nbsp;15, 15.5 and&nbsp;16 and 4
for Houdini&nbsp;16.5.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
New features:
- Added a @vdblink::getLibraryAbiVersionString()
  getLibraryAbiVersionString@endlink function, which returns a
  string such as <TT>"5.0.0abi3"</TT>.
- Added a @vdblink::WeakPtr weak pointer@endlink type alias for ABI
  compatibility.
- Metadata fields of unregistered types are no longer discarded after
  being read from a <TT>.vdb</TT> file, and although their values are not
  printable, they can be written back to disk.
- Added a @c DESTDIR_LIB_DIR Makefile variable for Linux multiarch support.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Mathieu&nbsp;Malaterre]</I>
- Added tools to create @link tools/PotentialFlow.h potential flow@endlink
  fields, as described in the 2017&nbsp;SIGGRAPH OpenVDB course.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Added @link points/PointMask.h tools@endlink to create mask grids from
  point data grids and to compute
  @vdblink::points::pointCountGrid() point counts@endlink.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Added @link points/PointScatter.h tools@endlink to scatter
  @ref secPtOverview "OpenVDB points" randomly throughout a volume.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Nick&nbsp;Avramoussis]</I>

@par
Improvements:
- Significantly improved the performance of point data grid
  @vdblink::points::MultiGroupFilter group filters@endlink.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed bugs in the
  @vdblink::tools::ClosestSurfacePoint ClosestSurfacePoint@endlink tool&rsquo;s
  distance calculations that caused searches to produce incorrect results.
- Fixed a locking issue that affected multithreaded access to
  @vdblink::points::PointDataLeafNode PointDataLeafNode@endlink&zwj;s
  when delayed loading was in effect.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>

@anchor v5_0_0_ABI_changes
@par
ABI changes:
- Made @vdblink::tree::InternalNode InternalNode@endlink&rsquo;s destructor
  non-virtual.
- The @ref v4_0_2_delayed_load_fix "fix" for a delayed-loading race condition
  in the @vdblink::tree::LeafBuffer LeafBuffer@endlink class that was only
  partially rolled out in the previous release is now enabled on all platforms.
- Replaced a bit flag with an atomic integer in
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray points::AttributeArray@endlink
  to address a threading issue during delayed loading.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Deprecated the @c OPENVDB_2_ABI_COMPATIBLE and @c OPENVDB_3_ABI_COMPATIBLE
  macros in favor of a new @c OPENVDB_ABI_VERSION_NUMBER macro.
  The new macro defaults to the library major version number but can be
  set at compile time to an earlier version number to disable ABI changes
  since that version.
  (Older ABIs will not be supported indefinitely, however.)
  For example, compile OpenVDB and any dependent code with
  <TT>-DOPENVDB_ABI_VERSION_NUMBER=4</TT> to use the 4.x&nbsp;ABI.

@par
API changes:
- Replaced @b tools::ClosestSurfacePoint::initialize with
  @vdblink::tools::ClosestSurfacePoint::create()
  tools::ClosestSurfacePoint::create@endlink,
  which returns a newly-allocated and properly initialized object.
- Removed methods that were deprecated in version&nbsp;4.0.0 or earlier,
  including @b io::File::readGridPartial, @b points::initialize,
  @b points::uninitialize and @b util::PagedArray::pop_back.
- Deprecated IllegalValueException in favor of
  @vdblink::ValueError ValueError@endlink.
- Changed the naming scheme for the
  @link OPENVDB_VERSION_NAME library namespace@endlink
  from <B>openvdb::v</B><I>X</I><B>_</B><I>Y</I><B>_</B><I>Z</I>
  to <B>openvdb::v</B><I>X</I><B>_</B><I>Y</I><B>abi</B><I>N</I>,
  where @e X, @e Y, @e Z and @e N are the major, minor, patch and ABI
  version numbers, respectively.
  The <B>abi</B><I>N</I> suffix is added only when the library is built
  using an older ABI version.

@par
Python:
- Reimplemented NumPy support for Boost&nbsp;1.65 compatibility.

@par
Houdini:
- Fixed bugs that caused the Ray&nbsp;SOP&rsquo;s closest surface point
  searches to produce incorrect results.
- Changed the @b VdbPrimCIterator::FilterFunc type from @b boost::function
  to @b std::function.
- Changed the @b houdini_utils::OpPolicyPtr type from @b boost:shared_ptr
  to @b std::shared_ptr.
- Debug-level log messages generated by OpenVDB are no longer forwarded
  to Houdini&rsquo;s error manager.
- Fixed a bug in the Read&nbsp;SOP that made it impossible to select among
  grids of the same name in a file.
- Added @b houdini_utils::ParmFactory::setAttrChoiceList, a convenience
  method for the creation of menus of attributes.
- Added a Potential&nbsp;Flow&nbsp;SOP.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Added point data grid support to the Scatter&nbsp;SOP.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Nick&nbsp;Avramoussis]</I>
- Added mask and point count output options to the
  Points&nbsp;Convert&nbsp;SOP.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>


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@par
<B>Version 4.0.2</B> - <I>July 28, 2017</I>
@par
New features:
- Added @vdblink::tools::compActiveLeafVoxels compActiveLeafVoxels@endlink,
  which composites active voxel values from a source tree into a destination
  tree.
  It is threaded and faster than existing tools that merge trees, however
  it operates only on leaf nodes.
- Added a <TT>vdb_test&nbsp;-f</TT> option that reads a list of tests
  to be run from a text file.
- Added functions for @link points/PointDelete.h deleting points@endlink
  from point data grids based on group membership.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Enabled display of point data grids in <TT>vdb_view</TT>.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Nick&nbsp;Avramoussis]</I>
- Added a view mode indicator to <TT>vdb_view</TT>.
- Added @vdblink::math::Mat::isFinite() isFinite@endlink,
  @vdblink::math::Mat::isNan() isNan@endlink, and
  @vdblink::math::Mat::isZero() isZero@endlink methods to
  @vdblink::math::Mat math::Mat@endlink and added
  @vdblink::math::Tuple::isZero() isZero@endlink to
  @vdblink::math::Tuple math::Tuple@endlink.
- Added @vdblink::tools::interiorMask() tools::interiorMask@endlink,
  which constructs a boolean mask grid from the active voxels of an
  input grid or, if the input grid is a level set, from the interior
  voxels of the level set.
- Added @vdblink::math::CoordBBox::begin() begin@endlink
  and @vdblink::math::CoordBBox::end() end@endlink iterator methods
  (and related methods) to @vdblink::math::CoordBBox CoordBBox@endlink,
  so that it can be used in range-based <TT>for</TT>&nbsp;loops.
- The @link tools/Clip.h clip@endlink tool now accepts either a box,
  a mask grid or a camera frustum as the clipping region.
  The latter is new in this version.

@par
Improvements:
- Moved the @vdblink::math::Tuple::isFinite() isFinite@endlink,
  @vdblink::math::Tuple::isInfinite() isInfinite@endlink,
  and @vdblink::math::Tuple::isNan() isNan@endlink methods from
  @vdblink::math::Vec3 math::Vec3@endlink et&nbsp;al.
  to @vdblink::math::Tuple math::Tuple@endlink.

@par
Bug fixes:
- @anchor v4_0_2_delayed_load_fix
  Fixed a delayed-loading race condition that could result in crashes.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
  <BLOCKQUOTE>
  @b Note: To preserve ABI compatibility, this fix is currently enabled
  only on platforms for which the alignment of a
  <TT>tbb::atomic&lt;uint32_t&gt;</TT> is the same as for a @c uint32_t.
  On other platforms, warnings will be logged during OpenVDB initialization,
  and it is recommended to disable delayed loading in that case (for example,
  by defining the environment variable @c OPENVDB_DISABLE_DELAYED_LOAD).
  </BLOCKQUOTE>
- Fixed a delayed-loading memory leak in the
  @vdblink::points::PointDataLeafNode PointDataLeafNode@endlink.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Changed the random number seeding mechanism for <TT>.vdb</TT> file UUIDs
  to avoid duplicate&nbsp;IDs.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Jason&nbsp;Lefley]</I>
- Fixed an off-by-one bug in the
  @vdblink::tools::GridResampler resampler@endlink that produced grid patterns
  of missing interior voxels for scale factors greater than one.

@par
Houdini:
- As of Houdini&nbsp;16.0.549, @c houdini_utils::OpFactory can generate
  help cards for operators automatically.
  New @c OpFactory::setDocumentation and @c ParmFactory::setDocumentation
  methods allow one to add custom help text in
  <A HREF="http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/help/format">wiki markup</A>
  format.
- Added help cards for all SOPs.  Houdini&nbsp;16.0.578 or later is required.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey&nbsp;and&nbsp;SideFX]</I>
- The Extended Operator Info window in Houdini&nbsp;16 now renders correctly
  for OpenVDB SOPs, instead of displaying a Python stack trace.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>
- Added a Points Delete SOP for deleting points from point data grids
  based on group membership.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Added a Mantra VRAY procedural and a delayed load SHOP for rendering
  point data grids.
  Houdini&nbsp;16 is required.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Replaced the Combine SOP&rsquo;s &ldquo;A/B&nbsp;Pairs&rdquo;
  and &ldquo;Flatten&rdquo; toggles with a menu of collation options
  that include flattening only <I>A</I>&nbsp;grids and flattening groups
  of <I>A</I>&nbsp;grids independently.
- Added a slider to the Remove Divergence SOP to set the error tolerance
  for the pressure solver.
- Added value type conversion options (for VDB output) to the Convert&nbsp;SOP.
- Added a Densify SOP that replaces active tiles with leaf voxels.
- Fixed a bug in the Rasterize Points&nbsp;SOP that capped density values
  to one instead of to the particles&rsquo; densities.
- The Convert and To&nbsp;Polygons SOPs now accept grids of any type
  as surface masks, not just level set or SDF grids.
- Added an option to the Clip&nbsp;SOP to clip to a camera frustum.


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@par
<B>Version 4.0.1</B> - <I>March 8, 2017</I>
@par
New features:
- Added functions to util/logging.h to simplify configuration of the
  logging system (via command-line arguments, in particular).
- Added @vdblink::tree::LeafManager::activeLeafVoxelCount()
  LeafManager::activeLeafVoxelCount@endlink, a faster, threaded
  alternative to @vdblink::tree::Tree::activeLeafVoxelCount()
  Tree::activeLeafVoxelCount@endlink.
- Added a <TT>-shuffle</TT> option that causes <TT>vdb_test</TT>
  to run unit tests in random order, which can help to identify
  unintended dependencies between tests.
- Added @c vdb_lod, a command-line tool to generate volume mipmaps
  for level-of-detail effects.
- Added methods to compute the median value of
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::medianOn() active@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::medianOff() inactive@endlink
  or @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::medianAll() all@endlink voxels in leaf nodes.

@par
Improvements:
- Added a @vdblink::Metadata::str() Metadata::str@endlink specialization
  for @vdblink::StringMetadata StringMetadata@endlink that eliminates
  the overhead of writing to a string stream.
- Made various minor improvements to @vdblink::util::PagedArray
  util::PagedArray@endlink.
- Added an @c install_lib build target to the Makefile.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Added @subpage points "documentation" and Cookbook
  @ref openvdbPointsHelloWorld "examples" for OpenVDB&nbsp;Points.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Registration of OpenVDB&nbsp;Points grid and attribute types is now
  handled in @vdblink::initialize() openvdb::initialize@endlink,
  and @vdblink::points::initialize() points::initialize@endlink
  and @vdblink::points::uninitialize() points::uninitialize@endlink
  are therefore deprecated.
- Extended multi-pass I/O to handle a variable number of passes per leaf node.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Addressed a name conflict between macros in util/NodeMasks.h and symbols in
  the <A HREF="http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page">Eigen</A>
  library.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Trevor&nbsp;Thomson]</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- The @vdblink::tools::fillWithSpheres() fillWithSpheres@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::ClosestSurfacePoint ClosestSurfacePoint@endlink
  tools now correctly handle isosurfaces outside the input volume&rsquo;s
  narrow band.
- The @vdblink::tools::MultiResGrid MultiResGrid@endlink tool
  now supports all standard grid types, including
  @vdblink::BoolGrid BoolGrid@endlink and @vdblink::MaskGrid MaskGrid@endlink.
- @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::fill() LeafNode::fill@endlink now correctly clips
  the fill region to the node&rsquo;s bounding box.
- @vdblink::Grid::denseFill() Grid::denseFill@endlink no longer densifies
  all existing active tiles, and it now correctly handles both active
  and inactive fill values.
- Fixed a bug that caused @vdblink::tools::copyToDense()
  tools::copyToDense@endlink to only partially populate the output array
  when delayed loading was in effect.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Stuart&nbsp;Levy]</I>
- Fixed an issue with duplicate registration of
  @link points/PointDataGrid.h PointDataGrid@endlink attribute types.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;SideFX]</I>
- Fixed an uninitialized memory bug in the
  @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume() mesh to volume@endlink converter.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;SideFX]</I>
- Fixed a thread race condition in
  @vdblink::math::QuantizedUnitVec QuantizedUnitVec@endlink
  that could cause it to produce incorrect results.
  <I>[Contributed by Jeff&nbsp;Lait]</I>
- Fixed a dangling pointer bug in the
  @vdblink::tools::ParticleAtlas particle atlas@endlink tool.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;SideFX]</I>
- Grid operators (@vdblink::tools::divergence() divergence@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::gradient() gradient@endlink, etc.) now produce
  correct results even for grids with active tile values.
- Fixed a bug when writing an out-of-core
  @vdblink::points::AttributeArray points::AttributeArray@endlink
  that could cause corruption of the metadata associated with the array.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>

@par
Python:
- Added functions @c getLoggingLevel, @c setLoggingLevel, and
  @c setProgramName, to allow configuration of the logging system.

@par
Houdini:
- Fixed a crash in the Ray SOP when the user selected an isosurface
  outside the target volume&rsquo;s narrow band.
- The LOD SOP now supports all standard grid types, including boolean grids.
- Added @c houdini_utils::ParmFactory::setGroupChoiceList, a convenience
  method for the creation of menus of primitive groups.
- Made various small changes for Houdini&nbsp;16 compatibility.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;SideFX]</I>
- The Create SOP now supports matching the new grids&rsquo; transform,
  voxel size, and topology to a reference grid.
  If the topology is being matched, it can optionally be resampled
  to a different voxel size.
- Added some support for point data grids to the Clip,
  Topology&nbsp;To&nbsp;Level&nbsp;Set and Visualize SOPs.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Compression is no longer enabled by default in the
  Points&nbsp;Convert&nbsp;SOP for normals and colors, because they are
  not guaranteed to have a [0,&nbsp;1] range.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Added a 16-bit truncation compression option to the
  Points&nbsp;Convert&nbsp;SOP.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Fixed a build issue with the GR_PrimVDBPoints render hook plugin
  that could cause @c hython to report a DSO error.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Added an @c install_lib build target to the Makefile.
- Rewrote the Remove&nbsp;Divergence SOP to actually remove divergence from
  vector fields on collocated grids, and added support for stationary
  and moving obstacles and an option to output a pressure field.
- The Analysis&nbsp;SOP now produces correct results for grids with active
  tile values.
- Added a sparse/dense toggle to the Fill&nbsp;SOP.
- Added @c openvdb_houdini::startLogForwarding,
  @c openvdb_houdini::stopLogForwarding
  and @c openvdb_houdini::isLogForwarding, which control the forwarding
  of log messages to Houdini&rsquo;s error manager.
  Forwarding of library warnings and error messages is now enabled
  by default for SOPs when OpenVDB is built with
  <A HREF="http://log4cplus.sourceforge.net/">log4cplus</A>.


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@par
<B>Version 4.0.0</B> - <I>November 15, 2016</I>
@par
Highlights:
- Incorporated Double&nbsp;Negative&rsquo;s
  <A HREF="https://github.com/dneg/openvdb_points_dev">
  OpenVDB&nbsp;Points</A> library.
- Introduced some C++11 constructs.
  A&nbsp;C++11-compatible compiler is now required.
- Blosc-compressed <TT>.vdb</TT> files are now as much as 20% smaller.
- Vector-valued grids are now constructed and destroyed much faster.
  <BLOCKQUOTE>
  @b Note: This change and other changes in this release
  (see @ref v4_0_0_ABI_changes "ABI changes" below) alter the grid&nbsp;ABI
  so that it is incompatible with earlier versions of the OpenVDB library,
  such as the ones built into Houdini&nbsp;15, 15.5 and&nbsp;16.
  To disable these changes and preserve ABI compatibility, define
  the macro @c OPENVDB_3_ABI_COMPATIBLE when compiling OpenVDB
  or any code that depends on OpenVDB.
  </BLOCKQUOTE>

@par
New features:
- Added an option to the @link PointScatter.h point scattering@endlink tools
  to specify how far each point may be displaced from the center of its
  host voxel or tile.
- Added a toggle to the @vdblink::tools::clip() clip@endlink tool
  to invert the clipping mask.
- Custom leaf node implementations may now optimize their file layout
  by inheriting from @vdblink::io::MultiPass io::MultiPass@endlink.
  Voxel data for grids with such leaf nodes will be written and read in
  multiple passes, allowing blocks of related data to be stored contiguously.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Added @vdblink::tree::Tree::unallocatedLeafCount()
  Tree::unallocatedLeafCount@endlink, which returns the number of leaf
  nodes with unallocated data buffers (typically due to delayed loading).

@par
Improvements:
- Vector-valued grids are now constructed and destroyed much faster.
- Changed @vdblink::math::Coord Coord@endlink&rsquo;s data representation
  to facilitate C++11 uniform initialization.
- Delayed loading from @vdblink::io::File io::Files@endlink is now faster
  due to the use of seeks instead of reads.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Made many small changes to address type conversion and other warnings
  reported by newer compilers, including Clang&nbsp;3.8.
- Improved Blosc compression ratios and write times by increasing
  the block size.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Dan&nbsp;Bailey]</I>

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused topology operations
  (@vdblink::Grid::topologyUnion() union@endlink,
  @vdblink::Grid::topologyIntersection() intersection@endlink
  and @vdblink::Grid::topologyDifference() difference@endlink) on
  @vdblink::MaskGrid MaskGrids@endlink to sometimes produce incorrect results.
  (MaskGrids are used internally in a number of tools.)
- Changed @vdblink::GridBase::copyGrid() GridBase::copyGrid@endlink and
  @vdblink::Grid::copy() Grid::copy@endlink to close const-correctness holes.
- @vdblink::tools::fillWithSpheres() tools::fillWithSpheres@endlink now
  returns an empty list of spheres instead of crashing when the user selects
  an isosurface that lies outside the bounding volume&rsquo;s narrow band.
- Fixed a null pointer dereference when copying grids that were loaded
  with @c io::File::readGridPartial.
  <I>[Reported&nbsp;by&nbsp;Nick&nbsp;Avramoussis]</I>

@anchor v4_0_0_ABI_changes
@par
ABI changes:
- Added a @vdblink::tree::NodeUnion NodeUnion@endlink template specialization
  for non-POD value types that significantly expedites construction and
  destruction of vector-valued grids.
- Changed @vdblink::math::Coord Coord@endlink&rsquo;s data representation
  to facilitate C++11 uniform initialization.
- Replaced occurrences of <TT>boost::shared_ptr</TT> with
  <TT>std::shared_ptr</TT>.
- Changed @vdblink::GridBase::copyGrid() GridBase::copyGrid@endlink and
  @vdblink::Grid::copy() Grid::copy@endlink to close const-correctness holes.
- Added virtual function @vdblink::tree::Tree::unallocatedLeafCount()
  Tree::unallocatedLeafCount@endlink.

@par
API changes:
- Introduced some C++11 constructs.
  A&nbsp;C++11-compatible compiler is now required.
- Added a parameter to the @link PointScatter.h point scattering@endlink
  tools to control the displacement of each point from the center of
  its host voxel or tile.
  The default behavior, as before, is to allow each point to be placed
  (randomly) anywhere within its voxel or tile.
- Renamed @c LeafManager::getPreFixSum to
  @vdblink::tree::LeafManager::getPrefixSum()
  LeafManager::getPrefixSum@endlink.
- Made @c LeafNode::Buffer a top-level class and renamed it to
  @vdblink::tree::LeafBuffer LeafBuffer@endlink.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Deprecated @c io::File::readGridPartial in favor of delayed loading.
- @c tools::ClosestSurfacePoint::initialize now returns a boolean
  indicating whether initialization was successful.
- Dropped the @c CopyPolicy enum and added
  @vdblink::GridBase::copyGridWithNewTree() GridBase::copyGridWithNewTree@endlink
  and @vdblink::Grid::copyWithNewTree() Grid::copyWithNewTree@endlink in order
  to close const-correctness holes that allowed newly-constructed,
  non-<TT>const</TT> grids to share their trees with existing
  <TT>const</TT> grids.  (Where that behavior is still required, use a
  @vdblink::ConstPtrCast ConstPtrCast@endlink.)

@par
Python:
- Fixed a build issue with Python&nbsp;3 and NumPy.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Jonathan&nbsp;Scruggs]</I>

@par
Houdini:
- Certain changes in this release (see @ref v4_0_0_ABI_changes "ABI changes"
  above) alter the grid&nbsp;ABI so that it is incompatible with earlier
  versions of the OpenVDB library, such as the ones built into
  Houdini&nbsp;15, 15.5 and&nbsp;16.
  To disable these changes and preserve ABI compatibility, define
  the macro @c OPENVDB_3_ABI_COMPATIBLE when compiling OpenVDB
  or any code that depends on OpenVDB.
- Introduced some C++11 constructs that are incompatible with
  versions of Houdini older than&nbsp;15.0.
- Fixed a bug in the Rasterize Points SOP that caused vector-valued attributes
  to be transferred as scalars.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Added a toggle to the Clip SOP to invert the clipping mask.
- Added a slider to the Scatter SOP to specify how far each point
  may be displaced from the center of its host voxel or tile.


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@par
<B>Version 3.2.0</B> - <I>August 10, 2016</I>

@par
Highlights:
- New features: tool to produce and store a sequences of progressively
  lower resolution grids (mipmaps), an acceleration structure for fast
  range and nearest-neighbor searches on particles, arbitrary volume
  and level set specific segmentation tools, a new binary mask grid
  type and an efficient point to level set conversion scheme.
- Optimizations: Faster volume to mesh conversion and threaded grid
  destruction, morphological dilation, csg operations and fracture tool.
- New Houdini nodes: Segment, LOD and Topology To Level Set.

@par
New features:
- Added @link MultiResGrid.h tools::MultiResGrid@endlink a tool to
  produce and store a sequences of progressively lower resolution
  grids (mipmaps).
- Added @link ParticleAtlas.h tools::ParticleAtlas@endlink an acceleration
  structure for fast range and nearest-neighbor searches on particles, points
  with radius.
- Added @vdblink::tools::segmentActiveVoxels() segmentActiveVoxels@endlink,
  which operates on grids of arbitrary type and separates connected components
  of a grid&rsquo;s active voxels into distinct grids or trees.
- Added @vdblink::tools::segmentSDF() segmentSDF@endlink, which separates
  disjoint signed-distance-field surfaces into distinct grids or trees.
- Added @vdblink::tools::extractActiveVoxelSegmentMasks()
  extractActiveVoxelSegmentMasks@endlink, which constructs a mask
  for each connected component of a grid&rsquo;s active voxels.
- Added threaded level-set CSG tools
  @vdblink::tools::csgUnionCopy() csgUnionCopy@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::csgIntersectionCopy() csgIntersectionCopy@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::csgDifferenceCopy() csgDifferenceCopy@endlink,
  which, unlike the existing CSG tools, produce new grids rather than
  modifying their input grids.
  These new tools are faster and use less memory than the existing tools
  (if only because the input grids never need to be deep-copied).
- Added a threaded @vdblink::tools::dilateActiveValues dilateActiveValues()@endlink
  tool with tile value support.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::PointsToMask PointsToMask@endlink tool,
  which activates voxels that intersect points from a given list.
- Added a new @link openvdb.h MaskGrid@endlink type that uses a single
  bit-field to represent both voxel values and states for the
  @link tree/LeafNodeMask.h leafnode@endlink to reduce memory usage.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::topologyToLevelSet() topologyToLevelSet@endlink tool
  that generates a level set from the implicit boundary between active and
  inactive voxels in an input grid of arbitrary type.
- Added @link LevelSetPlatonic.h tools::LevelSetPlatonic@endlink a new tool
  that produces narrow-band level sets of the five Platonic solids.
- Added @vdblink::tools::extractIsosurfaceMask() extractIsosurfaceMask@endlink
  which masks voxels that intersect the implicit surface defined by the
  given isovalue.
- Added a @vdblink::tree::LeafManager::getPrefixSum() getPrefixSum@endlink
  method to the @vdblink::tree::LeafManager LeafManager@endlink, for
  user-managed external buffers.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::Dense::print() print@endlink method to the
  @vdblink::tools::Dense Dense@endlink grid class.
- Added the @vdblink::math::CoordBBox::Iterator CoordBBox::Iterator@endlink
  class to conveniently iterate over coordinates covered a CoordBBox.
- Added bit-wise operations to the @vdblink::math::CoordBBox CoordBBox@endlink
  class.
- New component wise constructor for the @vdblink::math::CoordBBox
  CoordBBox@endlink class as well as the method
  @vdblink::math::CoordBBox::getCornerPoints CoordBBox::getCornerPoints@endlink.
- Added a new @vdblink::tree::LeafManager LeafManager@endlink constructor to
  create the structure from an existing array of leafnodes.
- Added active tile count to @vdblink::tree::Tree::print Tree::print@endlink.
- Added the templated @vdblink::math::MinMax MinMax@endlink class to compute the
  extrema of arbitrary value types.
- Added @vdblink::Grid::sparseFill() sparseFill@endlink and
  @vdblink::Grid::denseFill() denseFill@endlink methods to the Grid, Tree and
  RootNode classes.

@par
Improvements:
- Complete overhaul of the @vdblink::tools::VolumeToMesh VolumeToMesh@endlink tool
  brings significant performance improvements and enhanced region masking,
  tile support and bool volume surfacing.
- Improved the performance, parallel scaling and memory usage,
  of @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFracture tools::LevelSetFracture@endlink and
  updated to use the new @vdblink::tools::segmentSDF() segmentSDF@endlink scheme.
- Improved the performance of
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetAdvection tools::LevelSetAdvection@endlink by up to
  five times.
- Improved the performance of @vdblink::tree::Tree::voxelizeActiveTiles()
  Tree::voxelizeActiveTiles@endlink by means of multi-threading.
- Improved the performance of the
  @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume() mesh-to-volume converter@endlink,
  particularly for large narrow-band widths and for signed distance fields
  with dense interior regions.
- Threaded the Tree destructor and the
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::clear() Tree::clear@endlink method.
- Added a parameter to the
  @vdblink::tools::signedFloodFill() signedFloodFill@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::signedFloodFillWithValues() signedFloodFillWithValues@endlink
  tools to constrain the flood fill to specific levels of the tree.
- Added @vdblink::tree::LeafManager::reduce LeafManager::reduce@endlink and
  similar methods to @vdblink::tree::NodeManager NodeManager@endlink
  <I>[Contributed by Brett&nbsp;Tully]</I>
- Improved constructors of @vdblink::math::Mat3 math::Mat3@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::Mat4 Mat4@endlink.
- Added @vdblink::math::Mat3::cofactor Mat3::cofactor@endlink.
- Added @vdblink::math::Mat3::setRows Mat3::setRows@endlink,
  @vdblink::math::Mat4::setRows Mat4::setRows@endlink,
  @vdblink::math::Mat3::setColumns Mat3::setColumns@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::Mat4::setColumns Mat4::setColumns@endlink.
- Added @vdblink::util::NodeMask::isConstant NodeMask::isConstant@endlink
  method for faster bit processing.
- @vdblink::tools::prune tools::prune@endlink performs an improved estimate
  of tile values by means of medians.
- Added toggle to switch between cell centered and node centered transforms
  to @vdblink::tools::PointPartitioner tools::PointPartitioner@endlink

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::tools::LevelSetAdvection tools::LevelSetAdvection@endlink
  that could cause non-deterministic behavior.
  <I>[Reported by Jeff&nbsp;Lait]</I>
- Fixed a bug that allowed for unexpected implicit conversion
  between grids of different value types.
- Fixed a bug whereby the origins of leaf nodes with value type @c bool
  were ignored during equality comparisons.
- The @vdblink::tools::GridTransformer grid transformer tool@endlink
  now correctly handles affine transforms with shear and/or reflection.
- Fixed a bug in the
  @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume() mesh-to-volume converter@endlink
  that could produce incorrect distances for large bandwidths.
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume() mesh-to-volume converter@endlink
  that produced different results on machines with different core counts.
- Fixed a threading bug in the
  @vdblink::tools::compReplace() compReplace@endlink tool
  that could cause crashes.
- Resolved a floating-point exception in
  @vdblink::math::QuantizedUnitVec::pack() math::QuantizedUnitVec::pack@endlink
  caused by calling the method with a zero-length vector.
  <I>[Contributed by Rick&nbsp;Hankins]</I>
- Improved the API of @vdblink::tools::Dense Dense@endlink with non-const
  access methods.
- Fixed a potential threading bug in @vdblink::io::Queue io::Queue@endlink.
  <I>[Contributed by Josip&nbsp;Šumečki]</I>
- Fixed a possible division-by-zero bug in openvdb/tools/LevelSetAdvect.h.
  <I>[Contributed by Rick&nbsp;Hankins]</I>
- Corrected the @vdblink::math::outerProduct outer product@endlink method
  to not return the transpose result.
  <I>[Contributed by Gergely&nbsp;Klar]</I>
- Fixed a memory overallocation issue in
  @vdblink::tools::VolumeAdvection VolumeAdvection@endlink.
- Fix bug in
  @vdblink::tools::VolumeToMesh tools::VolumeToMesh@endlink
  failing to clear its state when exiting early.
  <I>[Contributed by Edward&nbsp;Lam]</I>
- Fixed bug in @vdblink::tools::PointIndexIterator::worldSpaceSearchAndUpdate
  tools::PointIndexIterator::worldSpaceSearchAndUpdate@endlink
  that resulted in missing point indices.
  <I>[Reported by Rick&nbsp;Hankins]</I>
- Fixed Windows build issues in unit tests.
  <I>[Contributed by Edward&nbsp;Lam and Steven&nbsp;Caron]</I>
- Fixed @vdblink::math::isApproxZero() isApproxZero@endlink so that it works
  correctly when tolerance is zero.
  <I>[Reported by Joshua&nbsp;Olson]</I>
- Fixed bugs in @vdblink::tree::NodeUnion NodeUnion@endlink that could cause
  crashes.
- Fixed memory leak in a @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume tools::meshToVolume@endlink
  sub-tool (expandNarrowband).
  <I>[Reported by K&eacute;vin&nbsp;Dietrich]</I>
- Fixed parameter type inconsistencies in @link math/Stencils.h math/Stencils.h@endlink
  and @link tools/RayIntersector.h tools/RayIntersector.h@endlink.
  <I>[Contributed by K&eacute;vin&nbsp;Dietrich and Nick&nbsp;Avramoussis]</I>
- Fixed a bug in the @vdblink::tools::VolumeToMesh VolumeToMesh@endlink tool that
  produced artifacts for adaptive surface extraction on clipped level sets.
  <I>[Reported by Jeff&nbsp;Lait]</I>
- Corrected empty grid background value in
  @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume() mesh-to-volume converter@endlink
  <I>[Contributed by Jeff&nbsp;Lait]</I>
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::tools::volumeToMesh volume-to-mesh converter@endlink
  that could produce NaNs.<I>[Reported by Rick Hankins]</I>
- Fixed a bug in the "Advect Points SOP" that could cause a crash when
  the input grids were of incorrect type.<I>[Reported by SideFX]</I>

@par
API changes:
- Deprecated @c math::Mat3::setBasis and @c math::Mat4::setBasis.
- Renamed @c GudonovsNormSqrd to
  @vdblink::math::GodunovsNormSqrd GodunovsNormSqrd@endlink
  <I>[Contributed by Branislav&nbsp;Radjenovic]</I>
- Renamed @c ValueType to @c PosType in the PointArray interface.
- Deprecated tree::Tree::addLeaf(LeafNode&) and added
  tree::Tree::addLeaf(LeafNode*).

@par
Python:
- Updated the Python module for Python&nbsp;3 compatibility.
- Updated the Python module for Boost 1.60 compatibility, to address
  &ldquo;no to_python (by-value) converter found&rdquo; exceptions.

@par
Maya:
- Fixed bugs related to data ownership, and improved error checking.
  <I>[Contributed by Crawford&nbsp;Doran]</I>
- Updated the Read and Write DAG nodes to support file sequences and
  subframe evaluation.

@par
Houdini:
- Added a Segment SOP that separates a grid&rsquo;s connected components
  into distinct grids.
- Added a LOD SOP that produces a sequences of progressively lower
  resolution grids.
- Added a Topology To Level Set SOP that generates a narrow-band
  signed distance field / level set from the interface between active
  and inactive voxels in an arbitrary grid.
- Revamped the From Particles SOP UI and added a more efficient level set
  conversion method that supports Houdini 15 packed points.
- Updated the Rasterize Points SOP with support for frustum transforms,
  sub region masking and orientation logic that matches the native
  Copy SOP&rsquo;s orientation.
- Updated the Platonic SOP with support for all five Platonic solids.
- Added hooks for registering SOP_NodeVDB text callbacks for different
  grid types. <I>[Contributed by Nick&nbsp;Avramoussis]</I>
- The Resample and Combine SOPs now correctly handle affine transforms
  with shear and/or reflection.
- Removed the StaggeredBoxSampler code path in SOP_OpenVDB_Advect because it
  introduces bias.
  <I>[Contributed by Fredrik&nbsp;Salomonsson]</I>
- Fixed a bug in the Ray SOP whereby the distance attribute was created
  with the wrong data type. <I>[Contributed by Nick&nbsp;Avramoussis]</I>
- The From Polygon SOP now allows the user to either specify the voxel
  count along an axis or the voxel size in world units (the only option
  in the past).

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@par
<B>Version 3.1.0</B> - <I>October 1, 2015</I>

@par
Highlights:
- New features: advection of arbitrary volumes, general-purpose
  preconditioned linear solver and Poisson solver, segmentation
  of topologically-enclosed regions of a volume, new and faster bitmask
  operators, concurrent paged array, volume diagnostics
- Optimizations: threaded grid constructors and topology operations;
  faster mesh to volume conversion, SDF to fog volume conversion
  and grid pruning; faster, unbounded particle partitioning
- New Houdini nodes: Advect, Diagnostics, Rasterize Points, Remap,
  Remove Divergence, Sort Points

@par
New features:
- Added a @vdblink::tools::VolumeAdvection volume advection@endlink tool
  for sparse advection of non-level-set volumes.
- Added a preconditioned
  @vdblink::math::pcg::solve() conjugate gradient solver@endlink.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::poisson::solve() Poisson solver@endlink
  for functions sampled on grids.
- Added @vdblink::tools::extractEnclosedRegion extractEnclosedRegion@endlink,
  which detects topologically-enclosed (watertight) exterior regions (cavities)
  that can result from CSG union operations between level sets with concavities
  that are capped.
  (See the unit test @c TestPoissonSolver::testSolveWithSegmentDomain
  for an example in which this tool is used to identify regions of trapped
  fluid when solving for pressure in a volume of incompressible fluid.)
- Added @vdblink::util::PagedArray PagedArray@endlink, a concurrent,
  dynamic linear array data structure with fast <I>O</I>(1) value access
  (both random and sequential).
- Added @vdblink::tools::Sampler Sampler@endlink, which provides a unified API
  for both staggered and non-staggered interpolation of various orders.
- Added equality and inequality operators to
  @vdblink::Metadata Metadata@endlink and @vdblink::MetaMap MetaMap@endlink.
- Added @vdblink::tools::CheckLevelSet CheckLevelSet@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::CheckFogVolume CheckFogVolume@endlink tools that
  perform various tests on symmetric, narrow-band level sets and fog volumes,
  respectively, to diagnose potential issues.
- Added support for value accessors that are not registered with their trees.
  (Bypassing accessor registration can improve performance in rare cases
  but should be used with caution, since the accessor will be left in an
  invalid state if the tree topology is modified.)
- Added a @vdblink::tree::Tree::stealNodes() stealNodes@endlink method that
  transfers ownership of all nodes in a tree of a certain type and inserts
  them into a linear array.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::createLevelSetBox() tools::createLevelSetBox@endlink
  factory function for level-set grids.
- Added @vdblink::tools::Dense::offsetToCoord() Dense::offsetToCoord@endlink.
- Added @vdblink::tree::LeafBuffer::data() LeafNode::Buffer::data@endlink,
  which provides direct access to a leaf node&rsquo;s voxel value array,
  avoiding out-of-core overhead.  Use with caution.
- Added a @vdblink::util::NodeMask::foreach() NodeMask::foreach@endlink method
  for efficient evaluation of complex bitwise operations.
- Added a bitwise difference method to
  @vdblink::util::NodeMask::operator-=() NodeMask@endlink.
- Added a @c -version option to @c vdb_print, @c vdb_render and @c vdb_view.

@par
Improvements:
- Deep, conversion and topology copy @vdblink::Grid Grid@endlink constructors
  are now threaded and up to five times faster.
- @vdblink::Grid::topologyUnion() Grid::topologyUnion@endlink,
  @vdblink::Grid::topologyIntersection() Grid::topologyIntersection@endlink, and
  @vdblink::Grid::topologyDifference() Grid::topologyDifference@endlink are now
  much faster due to threading.
- Significantly improved the performance, parallel scaling and memory usage
  of the @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume() mesh to volume@endlink converter,
  and implemented a more robust inside/outside sign classification scheme.
- Reimplemented the
  @vdblink::tools::PointPartitioner point partitioning@endlink
  tool for improved performance, concurrency and memory usage.
  The tool is now unbounded in the sense that points may be distributed
  anywhere in index space.
- Significantly improved the performance of the
  @vdblink::tools::sdfToFogVolume() SDF to fog volume@endlink converter.
- Significantly improved the performance of the
  @vdblink::tools::sdfInteriorMask() sdfInteriorMask@endlink tool
  and added support for both grid and tree inputs.
- Made various optimizations and improvements to the
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetMorphing level set morphing@endlink tool.
- Aggregated @vdblink::tools::DiscreteField DiscreteField@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::EnrightField EnrightField@endlink (formerly in
  tools/LevelSetAdvect.h) and
  @vdblink::tools::VelocitySampler VelocitySampler@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::VelocityIntegrator VelocityIntegrator@endlink (formerly
  in tools/PointAdvect.h) into a single header, tools/VelocityFields.h.
- Modified the @vdblink::tools::signedFloodFill() signed flood fill@endlink
  tool to accept grids of any signed scalar value type, not just
  floating-point grids.
- The @vdblink::tools::prune() prune@endlink tool is now faster, and it employs
  an improved compression technique on trees with floating-point values.

@par
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a build issue that could result in spurious &ldquo;Blosc encoding
  is not supported&rdquo; errors unless @c OPENVDB_USE_BLOSC was
  <TT>@#define</TT>d when compiling client code.
- Added NaN and inf checks to the
  @vdblink::tools::PointPartitioner point partitioning@endlink tool.
- Fixed a <TT>vdb_view</TT> issue whereby the frame buffer size did not
  necessarily match the window size.
  <I>[Contributed by Rafael&nbsp;Campos]</I>
- Fixed a roundoff issue in
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetTracker LevelSetTracker@endlink
  that could result in NaNs.
- Changed @vdblink::tools::CheckNormGrad CheckNormGrad@endlink to check
  the magnitude of the gradient rather than the square of the magnitude.
- Fixed parameter type inconsistencies in math/Ray.h and
  tools/RayIntersector.h.
  <I>[Contributed by K&eacute;vin&nbsp;Dietrich]</I>
- Fixed incorrect handling of signed values in the
  @vdblink::tools::clip() clip@endlink tool (and the Clip SOP).

@par
API changes:
- Removed the <TT>math::Hermite</TT> class since it was no longer used
  and caused build issues for some.
- Refactored the @vdblink::tools::LevelSetAdvection level set advection@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFilter level set filtering@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetMeasure level set measuring@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::LevelSetTracker level set tracking@endlink tools.
- Extended the API of the @vdblink::tools::Diagnose Diagnose@endlink tool
  and disabled copy construction.
- Extended and unified the API of various Samplers.
- Added an optional template argument to the
  @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor ValueAccessor@endlink class
  to allow for unregistered accessors.

@par
Houdini:
- Added a Rasterize Points SOP that produces density volumes and transfers
  arbitrary point attributes using a weighted-average scheme.
  The node incorporates a VOP subnetwork for procedural modeling,
  and its accompanying creation script defines a default network with
  VEX procedures for cloud and velocity field modeling.
  (See the creation script file header for installation details.)
- Merged the Advect Level Set SOP into a new Advect SOP that supports
  advection of arbitrary volumes, not just level sets.
- Added a Remove Divergence SOP that eliminates divergence from a
  velocity field.
- Added a Diagnostics SOP that can identify various problems with
  level sets, fog volumes and other grids.
- Added a Sort Points SOP that spatially reorders a list of points
  so that points that are close together in space are also close together
  in the list.
  This can improve CPU cache coherency and performance for
  random-access operations.
- Added a Remap SOP that maps voxel values in an input range to values
  in an output range through a user-defined transfer function.
- Added an option to the Convert SOP to activate interior voxels.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- The To Spheres SOP can now optionally output a <TT>pscale</TT> attribute.
- Added <TT>openvdb_houdini::SOP_NodeVDB::duplicateSourceStealable()</TT>,
  which in conjunction with the Unload flag can help to minimize deep copying
  of grids between nodes.
  The Advect, Convert, Fill, Filter, Fracture, Noise, Offset Level Set,
  Prune, Remap, Remove Divergence, Renormalize Level Set, Resize Narrow Band,
  Smooth Level Set and Transform SOPs all have this optimization enabled,
  meaning that they can potentially steal, rather than copy, data from
  upstream nodes that have the Unload flag enabled.
  <I>[Contributed by Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Redesigned the UI of the Visualize SOP and added toggles to draw with
  or without color, to use the grid name as the attribute name for points
  with values, and to attach grid index coordinates to points.
- Added toggles to the Filter, Rebuild Level Set, Resize Narrow Band,
  Smooth Level Set and To Spheres SOPs to specify units in either
  world space or index space.
- Fixed an issue whereby grids generated by the Rebuild Level Set SOP
  did not always display as surfaces in the viewport.
- The Metadata SOP now sets appropriate viewport visualization options
  when the grid class is changed.


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@par
<B>Version 3.0.0</B> - <I>January 14, 2015</I>
- The @vdblink::io::File File@endlink class now supports delayed loading of
  <TT>.vdb</TT> files, meaning that memory is not allocated for voxel values
  until the values are actually accessed. (This feature is enabled by default.)
  Until a grid has been fully loaded, its source <TT>.vdb</TT> file must not be
  modified or deleted, so for safety,
  @vdblink::io::File::open() File::open@endlink automatically makes
  private copies of source files that are smaller than a user-specified limit
  (see io::File::setCopyMaxBytes()).
  The limit can be set to zero to disable copying, but if it cannot be
  guaranteed that a file will not be modified, then it is best not to enable
  delayed loading for that file.
- <TT>.vdb</TT> files can now optionally be compressed with the Blosc&nbsp;LZ4
  codec.  <A HREF="http://www.blosc.org/">Blosc</A> compresses almost as well
  as ZLIB, but it is much faster.
- Added @vdblink::tools::PointPartitioner PointPartitioner@endlink, a tool
  for fast spatial sorting of points stored in an external array, and
  @link PointIndexGrid.h PointIndexGrid@endlink, an acceleration structure
  for fast range and nearest-neighbor searches.
- Added @link NodeManager.h tree::NodeManager@endlink,
  which linearizes a tree to facilitate efficient multithreading
  across all tree levels.
- Added @vdblink::tools::prune() tools::prune@endlink (and other variants),
  which replaces and outperforms @c Tree::prune.
- Added @vdblink::tools::signedFloodFill() tools::signedFloodFill@endlink,
  which replaces and outperforms @c Tree::signedFloodFill.
- Added @vdblink::tools::changeBackground() tools::changeBackground@endlink
  (and other variants), which replaces and outperforms @c Tree::setBackground().
- Added a fast but approximate narrow-band level set
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetTracker::dilate() dilation@endlink method, a fast
  narrow-band level set
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetTracker::erode() erosion@endlink
  method, and a @vdblink::tools::LevelSetTracker::normalize(const MaskType*)
  masked normalization@endlink method to
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetTracker LevelSetTracker@endlink.
- Added @vdblink::tools::Diagnose Diagnose@endlink, which performs
  multithreaded diagnostics on grids to identify issues like values that
  are NaNs or out-of-range. It optionally generates a boolean grid of all
  values that fail user-defined tests.
- Added optional alpha masks to @vdblink::tools::LevelSetMorphing
  LevelSetMorphing@endlink.
- Fixed an intermittent crash in
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetMorphing LevelSetMorphing@endlink.
- Added @c tools::topologyToLevelSet(),
  which generates a level set from the implicit boundary between active
  and inactive voxels in an arbitrary input grid.
  <I>[DWA internal]</I>
- Improved the performance of point scattering (by orders of magnitude)
  and added a
  @vdblink::tools::DenseUniformPointScatter DenseUniformPointScatter@endlink
  class as well as support for fractional numbers of particles per voxel.
- Improved the performance and memory footprint of
  the @vdblink::tools::ParticlesToLevelSet ParticlesToLevelSet@endlink tool
  for large numbers (tens to hundreds of millions) of particles.
- Added edge-adjacent (6+12=18 neighbors) and vertex-adjacent (6+12+8=26
  neighbors) dilation algorithms to
  @vdblink::tools::morphology::Morphology::dilateVoxels Morphology::dilateVoxels@endlink.
  The default dilation pattern is still face-adjacent (6&nbsp;neighbors).
- Added @vdblink::tree::Tree::getNodes() Tree::getNodes@endlink, which allows
  for fast construction of linear arrays of tree nodes for use in multithreaded
  code such as the @vdblink::tree::LeafManager LeafManager@endlink or
  @link NodeManager.h tree::NodeManager@endlink.
- Added @vdblink::math::Extrema math::Extrema@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::extrema() tools::extrema@endlink to efficiently
  compute minimum and maximum values in a grid.
- Added support for material color grids to all level set
  @vdblink::tools::BaseShader shaders@endlink, and added an option to
  @c vdb_render that allows one to specify a reference grid to be used
  for material color lookups.
- Added @vdblink::getLibraryVersionString()
  getLibraryVersionString@endlink and
  @link OPENVDB_LIBRARY_VERSION_STRING OPENVDB_LIBRARY_VERSION_STRING@endlink.
- Modified the mesh to volume converter to always set the grid background
  value to the exterior narrow-band width, and added finite value checks
  to narrow band parameters.
- @vdblink::tools::volumeToMesh() tools::volumeToMesh@endlink now compiles
  for all grid types but throws an exception if the input grid does not
  have a scalar value type.
- Added a
  @vdblink::io::File::readGrid(const Name&, const BBoxd&) File::readGrid@endlink
  overload and @vdblink::GridBase::readBuffers(std::istream&, const CoordBBox&)
  readBuffers@endlink overloads to the grid, tree and node classes that allow
  one to specify a bounding box against which to clip a grid while reading it.
  For large grids, clipping while reading can result in significantly lower
  memory usage than clipping after reading.
- Added @vdblink::GridBase::clipGrid() GridBase::clipGrid@endlink, which
  clips a grid against a world-space bounding box, and
  @vdblink::GridBase::clip() GridBase::clip@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::clip() Tree::clip@endlink, which clip against
  an index-space bounding box.
- Added @vdblink::tools::clip() tools::clip@endlink, which clips a grid
  either against a bounding box or against the active voxels of a mask grid.
- @c io::File::readGridPartial allocates the nodes of a grid&rsquo;s tree
  as before, but it now allocates leaf nodes without data buffers.
  (This feature is mainly for internal use.
  Partially-read grids should be used with care if at all, and they should
  be treated as read-only.)
- Grid names retrieved using a
  @vdblink::io::File::NameIterator File::NameIterator@endlink now always
  uniquely identify grids; they no longer generate &lsquo;more than one grid
  named&nbsp;&ldquo;<I>x</I>&rdquo;&rsquo; warnings when there are multiple
  grids of the same name in a file (for files written starting with this
  version of the OpenVDB library).
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::tree::Tree::ValueOffIter Tree::ValueOffIter@endlink
  that could cause
  @vdblink::tree::TreeValueIteratorBase::setMaxDepth() depth-bounded@endlink
  iterators to return incorrect values.
- Eliminated a recursive call in @vdblink::tree::TreeValueIteratorBase::next()
  TreeValueIteratorBase::next@endlink that could cause crashes on systems
  with a limited stack size.
- Fixed memory leaks in @vdblink::tree::RootNode::topologyDifference()
  RootNode::topologyDifference@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::RootNode::topologyIntersection()
  RootNode::topologyIntersection@endlink.
- Fixed a memory leak in @vdblink::io::Queue io::Queue@endlink when the queue
  was full and a write task could not be added within the timeout interval.
- Fixed a potential division by zero crash in
  @vdblink::tools::compDiv() tools::compDiv@endlink with integer-valued grids.
- Fixed kernel normalization in the @vdblink::tools::Filter filter tool@endlink
  so that it is correct for integer-valued grids.
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::tree::LeafBuffer::getValue()
  LeafNode::Buffer::getValue@endlink whereby Visual C++ would return
  a reference to a temporary.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::tools::ParticlesToLevelSet
  tools::ParticlesToLevelSet@endlink related to attribute transfer
  when leaf nodes are produced without active values.
- Added @vdblink::util::CpuTimer util::CpuTimer@endlink and removed
  the more simplistic @c unittest_util::CpuTimer from @c unittest/util.h.
- Eliminated the use of @c getopt for command-line argument parsing
  in @c vdb_test.
- @vdblink::initialize() openvdb::initialize@endlink now properly initializes
  <A HREF="http://log4cplus.sourceforge.net/">log4cplus</A> if it is enabled,
  eliminating &ldquo;No appenders could be found&rdquo; errors.
- Fixed a bug in the
  @vdblink::math::QuantizedUnitVec::pack() QuantizedUnitVec::pack@endlink
  method that caused quantization artifacts.
- Added convenience class @vdblink::tools::AlphaMask AlphaMask@endlink
- Added constructors and methods to both
  @vdblink::math::RandInt RandInt@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::Rand01 Rand01@endlink to set and reset the random seed value.
- Added convenience methods for
  @vdblink::math::Transform::indexToWorld(const BBoxd&) const transforming@endlink
  @vdblink::math::Transform::worldToIndex(const BBoxd&) const bounding@endlink
  @vdblink::math::Transform::worldToIndexCellCentered(const BBoxd&) const boxes@endlink
  to @vdblink::math::Transform math::Transform@endlink.
- @c vdb_view is now compatible with both GLFW&nbsp;2 and GLFW&nbsp;3.
- Made many small changes to address type conversion and other warnings
  reported by newer compilers like GCC&nbsp;4.8 and ICC&nbsp;14.
- Replaced the @c HALF_INCL_DIR and @c HALF_LIB_DIR Makefile variables
  with @c ILMBASE_INCL_DIR and @c ILMBASE_LIB_DIR and added @c ILMBASE_LIB,
  to match <A HREF="https://github.com/openexr/openexr">OpenEXR</A>&rsquo;s
  library organization.  <I>[Contributed by Double&nbsp;Negative]</I>
- Eliminated most local (function-scope) static variables, because
  Visual&nbsp;C++ doesn&rsquo;t guarantee thread-safe initialization
  of local statics.  <I>[Contributed by&nbsp;SESI]</I>
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::readString() readString@endlink related
  to empty strings.
  <I>[Contributed by Fabio&nbsp;Piparo]</I>
- Fixed a bug in the @vdblink::tools::VolumeToMesh VolumeToMesh@endlink
  simplification scheme that was creating visual artifacts.

@par
API changes:
- The addition of a
  @vdblink::GridBase::readBuffers(std::istream&, const CoordBBox&)
  GridBase::readBuffers@endlink virtual function overload and the
  @vdblink::GridBase::clip() GridBase::clip@endlink
  @vdblink::GridBase::readNonresidentBuffers()
  GridBase::readNonresidentBuffers@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::clipUnallocatedNodes() Tree::clipUnallocatedNodes@endlink
  virtual functions changes the grid ABI so that it is incompatible with
  earlier versions of the OpenVDB library (such as the ones in Houdini 12.5
  and&nbsp;13).  Define the macro @c OPENVDB_2_ABI_COMPATIBLE when compiling
  OpenVDB to disable these changes and preserve ABI compatibility.
- All @vdblink::tools::BaseShader shaders@endlink now have a template argument
  to specify the type of an optional material color grid, but the default type
  mimics the old, uniform color behavior.
- Removed a deprecated
  @vdblink::io::Stream::write() io::Stream::write@endlink overload.
- The point counts in
  @vdblink::tools::UniformPointScatter UniformPointScatter@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::NonUniformPointScatter NonUniformPointScatter@endlink
  are now specified and returned as @vdblink::Index64 Index64@endlink.
- @vdblink::math::RandInt RandInt@endlink has an extra template argument
  to specify the integer type.
  The @vdblink::math::RandomInt RandomInt@endlink typedef is unchanged.
- @vdblink::io::readData() io::readData@endlink,
  @vdblink::io::HalfReader<false,T>::read() io::HalfReader::read@endlink
  and @vdblink::io::HalfWriter<false,T>::write() io::HalfWriter::write@endlink
  now take a @c uint32_t argument indicating the type of compression
  instead of a @c bool indicating whether compression is enabled.
- Removed @c io::Archive::isCompressionEnabled() and
  @c io::Archive::setCompressionEnabled() and renamed
  @c io::Archive::compressionFlags() and @c io::Archive::setCompressionFlags()
  to @vdblink::io::Archive::compression() io::Archive::compression@endlink and
  @vdblink::io::Archive::setCompression() io::Archive::setCompression@endlink.
- Internal and leaf node classes are now required to provide
  "PartialCreate" constructors that optionally bypass the allocation
  of voxel buffers.  Leaf node classes must now also provide
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::allocate() allocate@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::isAllocated() isAllocated@endlink methods
  to manage the allocation of their buffers.
- Removed @c pruneInactive and @c pruneLevelSet methods from the
  @vdblink::tree::Tree Tree@endlink and various node classes.
  These methods have been replaced by the much faster pruning functions
  found in tools/Prune.h.
- Removed @c signedFloodFill methods from the @vdblink::Grid Grid@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::Tree Tree@endlink and various node classes.
  These methods have been replaced by the much faster functions
  found in tools/SignedFloodFill.h.
- Removed @c Grid::setBackground() and @c Tree::setBackground() (use the
  faster @vdblink::tools::changeBackground() changeBackground@endlink tool
  instead), and removed the default argument from
  @vdblink::tree::RootNode::setBackground() RootNode::setBackground@endlink.

@par
Python:
- Added grid methods @c convertToPolygons() and @c convertToQuads(),
  which convert volumes to meshes, and @c createLevelSetFromPolygons(),
  which converts meshes to volumes.
  <A HREF="http://docs.scipy.org/doc/">NumPy</A> is required.

@par
Maya:
- Added an adaptive polygonal surface extraction node.

@par
Houdini:
- Added a new Resize Narrow Band SOP that can efficiently adjust the width
  of a level set&rsquo;s narrow band.  This allows, for example, for a
  level set to be created quickly from points or polygons with a very
  narrow band that is then quickly resized to a desired width.
- Fixed bugs in the Smooth Level Set and Reshape Level Set SOPs that
  caused them to ignore the selected discretization scheme.
- Added a Morph Level Set SOP.
- Added a From Points SOP to very quickly generate a level set
  from a point cloud, ignoring any radius attribute.
  <I>[DWA internal]</I>
- Added a Voxel Scale mode to the Resample SOP.
- Improved the performance and memory footprint of the From Particles SOP
  for large numbers (tens to hundreds of millions) of particles.
- The Scatter SOP now accepts fractional numbers of particles per voxel.
- Improved the performance of the Scatter SOP by more than an order
  of magnitude.
- The Clip SOP now has a toggle to choose explicitly between a mask grid
  or a bounding box as the clipping region.  As a consequence, the mask grid
  can now be unnamed.
- Added the OpenVDB library version number to the Extended Operator
  Information for all SOPs.
- SOPs are now linked with an rpath to the directory containing the
  OpenVDB library.
- Like the native Houdini file SOP, the Read SOP now allows missing frames
  to be reported either as errors or as warnings.
- The Read SOP now has an optional input for geometry, the bounding box
  of which can be used to clip grids as they are read.  For large grids,
  clipping while reading can result in significantly lower memory usage
  than clipping after reading.
- The From Polygons and Convert SOPs now default to using the polygon soup
  mesh representation, which uses less memory.


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<B>Version 2.3.0</B> - <I>April 23, 2014</I>
- Added @vdblink::tools::extractSparseTree() extractSparseTree@endlink,
  which selectively extracts and transforms data from a dense grid to
  produce a sparse tree, and @vdblink::tools::extractSparseTreeWithMask()
  extractSparseTreeWithMask@endlink, which copies data from the index-space
  intersection of a sparse tree and a dense input grid.
- Added copy constructors to the
  @vdblink::Grid::Grid(const Grid<OtherTreeType>&) Grid@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::Tree(const Tree<OtherRootType>&) Tree@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::RootNode::RootNode(const RootNode<OtherChildType>&)
  RootNode@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::InternalNode::InternalNode(const InternalNode<OtherChildNodeType, Log2Dim>&)
  InternalNode@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::LeafNode(const LeafNode<OtherValueType, Log2Dim>&) LeafNode@endlink
  classes, and an assignment operator overload to
  @vdblink::tree::RootNode::operator=(const RootNode<OtherChildType>&)
  RootNode@endlink, that allow the source and destination to have different
  value types.
- Modified @vdblink::tree::Tree::combine2() Tree::combine2@endlink to permit
  combination of trees with different value types.
- Added @vdblink::CanConvertType CanConvertType@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::RootNode::SameConfiguration
  RootNode::SameConfiguration@endlink metafunctions, which perform compile-time
  tests for value type and tree type compatibility, and a
  @vdblink::tree::RootNode::hasCompatibleValueType()
  RootNode::hasCompatibleValueType@endlink method, which does runtime checking.
- Added optional support for logging using
  <A HREF="http://log4cplus.sourceforge.net/">log4cplus</A>.
  See logging.h and the @c INSTALL file for details.
- Added  @vdblink::tools::VolumeRayIntersector::hits()
  VolumeRayIntersector::hits@endlink, which returns all the hit segments
  along a ray.  This is generally more efficient than repeated calls to
  @vdblink::tools::VolumeRayIntersector::march()
  VolumeRayIntersector::march@endlink.
- Added member class @vdblink::math::Ray::TimeSpan Ray::TimeSpan@endlink
  and method @vdblink::math::Ray::valid() Ray::valid@endlink, and deprecated
  method @vdblink::math::Ray::test() Ray::test@endlink.
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::math::VolumeHDDA VolumeHDDA@endlink that could
  cause rendering artifacts when a ray&rsquo;s start time was zero.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Mike&nbsp;Farnsworth]</I>
- Added a @vdblink::tools::compositeToDense() compositeToDense@endlink tool,
  which composites data from a sparse tree into a dense array, using a
  sparse alpha mask.  Over, Add, Sub, Min, Max, Mult, and Set are
  supported operations.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::transformDense() transformDense@endlink tool,
  which applies a functor to the value of each voxel of a dense grid
  within a given bounding box.
- Improved the performance of node iterators.

@par
API changes:
- Collected the digital differential analyzer code from math/Ray.h
  and tools/RayIntersector.h into a new header file, math/DDA.h.
- Rewrote @vdblink::math::VolumeHDDA VolumeHDDA@endlink and made several
  changes to its API.  (@vdblink::math::VolumeHDDA VolumeHDDA@endlink
  is used internally by @vdblink::tools::VolumeRayIntersector
  VolumeRayIntersector@endlink, whose API is unchanged.)
- @vdblink::tree::Tree::combine2() Tree::combine2@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::RootNode::combine2() RootNode::combine2@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::InternalNode::combine2() InternalNode::combine2@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::combine2() LeafNode::combine2@endlink
  and @vdblink::CombineArgs CombineArgs@endlink all now require an additional
  template argument, which determines the type of the other tree.
- Assignment operators for
  @vdblink::tree::LeafManager::LeafRange::Iterator::operator=()
  LeafManager::LeafRange::Iterator@endlink,
  @vdblink::util::BaseMaskIterator::operator=() BaseMaskIterator@endlink,
  @vdblink::util::NodeMask::operator=() NodeMask@endlink and
  @vdblink::util::RootNodeMask::operator=() RootNodeMask@endlink
  now return references to the respective objects.
- Removed a number of methods that were deprecated in version&nbsp;2.0.0
  or earlier.

@par
Houdini:
- Added a Clip SOP, which does volumetric clipping.
- Added an Occlusion Mask SOP, which generates a mask of the voxels
  inside a camera frustum that are occluded by objects in an input grid.
- The Combine SOP now applies the optional signed flood fill only to
  level set grids, since that operation isn&rsquo;t meaningful for other grids.
- The Filter SOP now processes all grid types, not just scalar grids.


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@par
<B>Version 2.2.0</B> - <I>February 20, 2014</I>
- Added a simple, multithreaded
  @vdblink::tools::VolumeRender volume renderer@endlink,
  and added volume rendering support to the @c vdb_render
  command-line renderer.
- Added an option to the
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetRayIntersector LevelSetRayIntersector@endlink
  and to @c vdb_render to specify the isovalue of the level set.
- Added methods to the
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetRayIntersector LevelSetRayIntersector@endlink
  to return the time of intersection along a world or index ray and to
  return the level set isovalue.
- Improved the performance of the
  @vdblink::tools::VolumeRayIntersector VolumeRayIntersector@endlink
  and added support for voxel dilation to account for interpolation kernels.
- Added a @ref sInterpolation "section" to the Cookbook on interpolation
  using @vdblink::tools::BoxSampler BoxSampler@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::GridSampler GridSampler@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::DualGridSampler DualGridSampler@endlink, et al.
- Added a @ref secGrid "section" to the Overview on grids and grid metadata.
- Modified @vdblink::tools::DualGridSampler DualGridSampler@endlink so
  it is more consistent with @vdblink::tools::GridSampler GridSampler@endlink.
- The @vdblink::tools::cpt() cpt@endlink, @vdblink::tools::curl() curl@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::laplacian() laplacian@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::meanCurvature() meanCurvature@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::normalize() normalize@endlink tools now output grids
  with appropriate @vdblink::VecType vector types@endlink
  (covariant, contravariant, etc.).
- Added a @vdblink::tools::transformVectors() transformVectors@endlink tool,
  which applies an affine transformation to the voxel values of a
  vector-valued grid in accordance with the grid&rsquo;s
  @vdblink::VecType vector type@endlink and
  @vdblink::Grid::isInWorldSpace() world space/local space@endlink setting.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::compDiv() compDiv@endlink tool, which combines
  grids by dividing the values of corresponding voxels.
- Fixed a bug in the mean curvature computation that could produce NaNs
  in regions with constant values.
- Added a
  @vdblink::Grid::topologyDifference() Grid::topologyDifference@endlink method.
- Added @vdblink::math::Vec3::exp() exp@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::Vec3::sum() sum@endlink methods to
  @vdblink::math::Vec2 Vec2@endlink, @vdblink::math::Vec3 Vec3@endlink
  and @vdblink::math::Vec4 Vec4@endlink.
- Improved the @vdblink::tools::fillWithSpheres() fillWithSpheres@endlink
  tool for small volumes that are just a few voxels across.
- Improved the accuracy of the mesh to volume converter.
- Fixed a bug in the mesh to volume converter that caused incorrect sign
  classifications for narrow-band level sets.
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::math::NonlinearFrustumMap::applyIJT()
  NonlinearFrustumMap::applyIJT@endlink that resulted in incorrect values
  when computing the gradient of a grid with a frustum transform.
- Fixed a file I/O bug whereby some <TT>.vdb</TT> files could not be read
  correctly if they contained grids with more than two distinct inactive
  values.
- Fixed an off-by-one bug in the numbering of unnamed grids in <TT>.vdb</TT>
  files.  The first unnamed grid in a file is now retrieved using the name
  &ldquo;<TT>[0]</TT>&rdquo;, instead of &ldquo;<TT>[1]</TT>&rdquo;.
- Fixed a build issue reported by Clang&nbsp;3.2 in tools/GridOperators.h.
- Fixed a memory leak in @vdblink::tools::Film Film@endlink.
- Added library and file format version number constants to the Python module.
- Improved convergence in the
  @vdblink::tools::VolumeRender volume renderer@endlink.
  <I>[Contributed by Jerry Tessendorf and Mark Matthews]</I>
- Made various changes for compatibility with Houdini&nbsp;13 and with
  C++11 compilers.
  <I>[Contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;SESI]</I>

@par
API changes:
- @vdblink::tools::VolumeRayIntersector::march()
  VolumeRayIntersector::march@endlink no longer returns an @c int
  to distinguish tile vs. voxel hits.  Instead, it now returns @c false
  if no intersection is detected and @c true otherwise.  Also, @e t0 and
  @e t1 might now correspond to the first and last hits of multiple adjacent
  leaf nodes and/or active tiles.
- @vdblink::tools::DualGridSampler DualGridSampler@endlink is no longer
  templated on the target grid type, and the value accessor is now passed
  as an argument.
- The <TT>.vdb</TT> file format has changed slightly.  Tools built with older
  versions of OpenVDB should be recompiled to ensure that they can read files
  in the new format.

@par
Houdini:
- Added topology union, intersection and difference operations to
  the Combine SOP.  These operations combine the active voxel topologies
  of grids that may have different value types.
- Added a Divide operation to the Combine SOP.
- Added support for boolean grids to the Combine, Resample, Scatter, Prune
  and Visualize SOPs.
- The Fill SOP now accepts a vector as the fill value, and it allows
  the fill region bounds to be specified either in index space (as before),
  in world space, or using the bounds of geometry connected to an optional
  new reference input.
- Added a toggle to the Offset Level Set SOP to specify the offset in
  either world or voxel units.
- Added a toggle to the Transform and Resample SOPs to apply the transform
  to the voxel values of vector-valued grids, in accordance with those
  grids&rsquo; @vdblink::VecType vector types@endlink and
  @vdblink::Grid::isInWorldSpace() world space/local space@endlink settings.
- Added a Vector Type menu to the Vector Merge SOP.
- Removed masking options from the Renormalize SOP (since masking is
  not supported yet).
- Reimplemented the Vector Merge SOP for better performance and
  interruptibility and to fix a bug in the handling of tile values.


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@par
<B>Version 2.1.0</B> - <I>December 12, 2013</I>
- Added a small number of Maya nodes, primarily for conversion of geometry
  to and from OpenVDB volumes and for visualization of volumes.
- Added an initial implementation of
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetMorphing level set morphing@endlink
  (with improvements to follow soon).
- Added @vdblink::tools::LevelSetMeasure tools::LevelSetMeasure@endlink,
  which efficiently computes the surface area, volume and average
  mean-curvature of narrow-band level sets, in both world and voxel units.
  Those quantities are now exposed as intrinsic attributes on the Houdini
  VDB primitive and can be queried using the native Measure SOP.
- @vdblink::tools::Dense tools::Dense@endlink now supports the XYZ memory
  layout used by Houdini and Maya in addition to the ZYX layout used in
  OpenVDB trees.
- Improved the performance of masking in the
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFilter level set filter@endlink tool and
  added inversion and scaling of the mask input, so that any scalar-valued
  volume can be used as a mask, not just volumes with a [0,&nbsp;1] range.
- Added optional masking to the non-level-set filters, to the grid
  operators (CPT, curl, divergence, gradient, Laplacian, mean curvature,
  magnitude, and normalize) and to the Analysis and Filter SOPs.
- Added more narrow band controls to the Rebuild Level Set SOP.
- Improved the accuracy of the
  @vdblink::tools::levelSetRebuild() level set rebuild@endlink tool.
- Added @vdblink::tools::activate() tools::activate@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::deactivate() tools::deactivate@endlink, which set the
  active states of tiles and voxels whose values are equal to or approximately
  equal to a given value, and added a Deactivate Background Voxels toggle
  to the Combine SOP.
- Added @vdblink::math::BBox::applyMap() BBox::applyMap@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::BBox::applyInverseMap() BBox::applyInverseMap@endlink,
  which allow for transformation of axis-aligned bounding boxes.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::PositionShader position shader@endlink to the
  level set ray-tracer (primarily for debugging purposes).
- Added an @vdblink::io::Queue io::Queue@endlink class that manages a
  concurrent queue for asynchronous serialization of grids to files or streams.
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::io::Archive io::Archive@endlink whereby writing
  unnamed, instanced grids (i.e., grids sharing a tree) to a file rendered
  the file unreadable.
- Fixed a bug in the @vdblink::tools::VolumeToMesh volume to mesh@endlink
  converter that caused it to generate invalid polygons when the zero crossing
  lay between active and inactive regions.
- Fixed a bug in the @vdblink::tools::UniformPointScatter point scatter@endlink
  tool (and the Scatter SOP) whereby the last voxel always remained empty.
- Fixed a bug in the Read SOP that caused grids with the same name
  to be renamed with a numeric suffix (e.g., &ldquo;grid[1]&rdquo;
  &ldquo;grid[2]&rdquo;, etc.).
- Fixed some unit test failures on 64-bit Itanium machines.

@par
API changes:
- The @vdblink::tools::Filter Filter@endlink tool is now templated on a
  mask grid, and threading is controlled using a grain size, for consistency
  with most of the other level set tools.
- The @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFilter LevelSetFilter@endlink tool is now
  templated on a mask grid.
- All shaders now take a ray direction instead of a ray.


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@par
<B>Version 2.0.0</B> - <I>October 31, 2013</I>
- Added a @ref python "Python module" with functions for basic manipulation
  of grids (but no tools, yet).
- Added ray intersector tools for efficient, hierarchical intersection
  of rays with @vdblink::tools::LevelSetRayIntersector level-set@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::VolumeRayIntersector generic@endlink volumes.
- Added a @vdblink::math::Ray Ray@endlink class and a hierarchical
  @vdblink::math::DDA Digital Differential Analyzer@endlink for fast
  ray traversal.
- Added a fully multi-threaded @vdblink::tools::LevelSetRayTracer
  level set ray tracer@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::PerspectiveCamera camera@endlink
  @vdblink::tools::OrthographicCamera classes@endlink
  that mimic Houdini&rsquo;s cameras.
- Added a simple, command-line renderer (currently for level sets only).
- Implemented a new meshing scheme that produces topologically robust
  two-manifold meshes and is twice as fast as the previous scheme.
- Implemented a new, topologically robust (producing two-manifold meshes)
  level-set-based seamless fracture scheme.  The new scheme eliminates
  visible scarring seen in the previous implementation by subdividing
  internal, nonplanar quads near fracture seams.  In addition,
  fracture seam points are now tagged, allowing them to be used
  to drive pre-fracture dynamics such as local surface buckling.
- Improved the performance of @vdblink::tree::Tree::evalActiveVoxelBoundingBox()
  Tree::evalActiveVoxelBoundingBox@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::activeVoxelCount() Tree::activeVoxelCount@endlink,
  and significantly improved the performance of
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::evalLeafBoundingBox() Tree::evalLeafBoundingBox@endlink
  (by about&nbsp;30x).
- Added a tool (and a Houdini SOP) that fills a volume with
  adaptively-sized overlapping or non-overlapping spheres.
- Added a Ray SOP that can be used to perform geometry projections
  using level-set ray intersections or closest-point queries.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::ClosestSurfacePoint tool@endlink that performs
  accelerated closest surface point queries from arbitrary points in
  world space to narrow-band level sets.
- Increased the speed of masked level set filtering by 20% for
  the most common cases.
- Added @vdblink::math::BoxStencil math::BoxStencil@endlink, with support
  for trilinear interpolation and gradient computation.
- Added @vdblink::tree::Tree::topologyIntersection()
  Tree::topologyIntersection@endlink, which intersects a tree&rsquo;s active
  values with those of another tree, and
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::topologyDifference() Tree::topologyDifference@endlink,
  which performs topological subtraction of one tree&rsquo;s active values
  from another&rsquo;s.  In both cases, the <TT>ValueType</TT>s of the two
  trees need not be the same.
- Added @vdblink::tree::Tree::activeTileCount() Tree::activeTileCount@endlink,
  which returns the number of active tiles in a tree.
- Added @vdblink::math::MinIndex() math::MinIndex@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::MaxIndex() math::MaxIndex@endlink, which find the minimum
  and maximum components of a vector without any branching.
- Added @vdblink::math::BBox::minExtent() BBox::minExtent@endlink,
  which returns a bounding box&rsquo;s shortest axis.
- The default @vdblink::math::BBox BBox@endlink constructor now
  generates an invalid bounding box rather than an empty bounding box
  positioned at the origin.  The new behavior is consistent with
  @vdblink::math::CoordBBox CoordBBox@endlink.
  <I>[Thanks to Rick Hankins for suggesting this fix.]</I>
- Added @vdblink::math::CoordBBox::reset() CoordBBox::reset@endlink,
  which resets a bounding box to its initial, invalid state.
- Fixed a bug in the default @vdblink::math::ScaleMap ScaleMap@endlink
  constructor that left some data used in the inverse uninitialized.
- Added @vdblink::math::MapBase::applyJT MapBase::applyJT@endlink, which
  applies the Jacobian transpose to a vector (the Jacobian transpose takes
  a range-space vector to a domain-space vector, e.g., world to index),
  and added @vdblink::math::MapBase::inverseMap() MapBase::inverseMap@endlink,
  which returns a new map representing the inverse of the original map
  (except for @vdblink::math::NonlinearFrustumMap NonlinearFrustumMap@endlink,
  which does not currently have a defined inverse map).
  <br>@b Note: Houdini 12.5 uses an earlier version of OpenVDB, and maps
  created with that version lack virtual table entries for these
  new methods, so do not call these methods from Houdini&nbsp;12.5.
- Reimplemented @vdblink::math::RandomInt math::RandomInt@endlink using
  Boost.Random instead of @c rand() (which is not thread-safe), and deprecated
  @c math::randUniform() and added
  @vdblink::math::Random01 math::Random01@endlink to replace it.
- Modified @vdblink::tools::copyFromDense() tools::copyFromDense@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::copyToDense() tools::copyToDense@endlink to allow
  for implicit type conversion (e.g., between a
  @vdblink::tools::Dense Dense&lt;Int32&gt;@endlink and a
  @vdblink::FloatTree FloatTree@endlink) and fixed several bugs
  in @vdblink::tools::CopyFromDense tools::CopyFromDense@endlink.
- Fixed bugs in @vdblink::math::Stats math::Stats@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::Histogram math::Histogram@endlink that could produce
  <TT>NaN</TT>s or other incorrect behavior if certain methods were called
  on populations of size zero.
- Renamed <TT>struct tolerance</TT> to
  @vdblink::math::Tolerance math::Tolerance@endlink
  and @c negative to @vdblink::math::negative() math::negative@endlink
  and removed @c math::toleranceValue().
- Implemented a closest point on line segment algorithm,
  @vdblink::math::closestPointOnSegmentToPoint()
  math::closestPointOnSegmentToPoint@endlink.
- Fixed meshing issues relating to masking and automatic partitioning.
- @vdblink::Grid::merge() Grid::merge@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::merge() Tree::merge@endlink now accept an optional
  @vdblink::MergePolicy MergePolicy@endlink argument that specifies one of
  three new merging schemes.  (The old merging scheme, which is no longer
  available, used logic for each tree level that was inconsistent with
  the other levels and that could result in active tiles being replaced
  with nodes having only inactive values.)
- Renamed @c LeafNode::coord2offset(), @c LeafNode::offset2coord() and
  @c LeafNode::offset2globalCoord() to
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::coordToOffset() coordToOffset@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::offsetToLocalCoord() offsetToLocalCoord@endlink,
  and @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::offsetToGlobalCoord()
  offsetToGlobalCoord@endlink, respectively, and likewise for
  @vdblink::tree::InternalNode::offsetToGlobalCoord() InternalNode@endlink.
  <I>[Thanks to Rick Hankins for suggesting this change.]</I>
- Replaced @vdblink::tree::Tree Tree@endlink methods @c setValueOnMin,
  @c setValueOnMax and @c setValueOnSum with
  @vdblink::tools::setValueOnMin() tools::setValueOnMin@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::setValueOnMax() tools::setValueOnMax@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::setValueOnSum() tools::setValueOnSum@endlink
  (and a new @vdblink::tools::setValueOnMult() tools::setValueOnMult@endlink)
  and added @vdblink::tree::Tree::modifyValue() Tree::modifyValue@endlink
  and @vdblink::tree::Tree::modifyValueAndActiveState()
  Tree::modifyValueAndActiveState@endlink, which modify voxel values
  in-place via user-supplied functors.  Similarly, replaced
  @c ValueAccessor::setValueOnSum() with
  @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor::modifyValue()
  ValueAccessor::modifyValue@endlink
  and @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor::modifyValueAndActiveState()
  ValueAccessor::modifyValueAndActiveState@endlink, and added a
  @vdblink::tree::TreeValueIteratorBase::modifyValue() modifyValue@endlink
  method to all value iterators.
- Removed @c LeafNode::addValue and @c LeafNode::scaleValue.
- Added convenience classes @vdblink::tree::Tree3 tree::Tree3@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::Tree5 tree::Tree5@endlink for custom tree configurations.
- Added an option to the From Particles SOP to generate an alpha mask,
  which can be used to constrain level set filtering so as to preserve
  surface details.
- The mesh to volume converter now handles point-degenerate polygons.
- Fixed a bug in the Level Set Smooth, Level Set Renormalize and
  Level Set Offset SOPs that caused the group name to be ignored.
- Fixed various OS X and Windows build issues.
  <I>[Contributions from SESI and DD]</I>


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<B>Version 1.2.0</B> - <I>June 28 2013</I>
- @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFilter Level set filters@endlink now accept
  an optional alpha mask grid.
- Implemented sharp feature extraction for level set surfacing.
  This enhances the quality of the output mesh and reduces aliasing
  artifacts.
- Added masking options to the meshing tools, as well as a spatial
  multiplier for the adaptivity threshold, automatic partitioning,
  and the ability to preserve edges and corners when mesh adaptivity
  is applied.
- The mesh to volume attribute transfer scheme now takes surface
  orientation into account, which improves accuracy in proximity to
  edges and corners.
- Added a @vdblink::tree::LeafManager::foreach() foreach@endlink method
  to @vdblink::tree::LeafManager tree::LeafManager@endlink that, like
  @vdblink::tools::foreach() tools::foreach@endlink, applies a user-supplied
  functor to each leaf node in parallel.
- Rewrote the particle to level set converter, simplifying the API,
  improving performance (especially when particles have a fixed radius),
  adding the capability to transfer arbitrary point attributes,
  and fixing a velocity trail bug.
- Added utility methods @vdblink::math::Sign() Sign@endlink,
  @vdblink::math::SignChange() SignChange@endlink,
  @vdblink::math::isApproxZero() isApproxZero@endlink,
  @vdblink::math::Cbrt() Cbrt@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::ZeroCrossing() ZeroCrossing@endlink to math/Math.h.
- Added a @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor3::probeNode() probeNode@endlink method
  to the value accessor and to tree nodes that returns a pointer to the node
  that contains a given voxel.
- Deprecated @c LeafNode::addValue and @c LeafNode::scaleValue.
- Doubled the speed of the mesh to volume converter (which also improves
  the performance of the fracture and level set rebuild tools) and
  improved its inside/outside voxel classification near edges and corners.
- @vdblink::tools::GridSampler GridSampler@endlink now accepts either a grid,
  a tree or a value accessor, and it offers faster index-based access methods
  and much better performance in cases where many instances are allocated.
- Extended @vdblink::tools::Dense tools::Dense@endlink to make it more
  compatible with existing tools.
- Fixed a crash in @vdblink::io::Archive io::Archive@endlink whenever
  the library was unloaded from memory and then reloaded.
  <I>[Contributed by Ollie Harding]</I>
- Fixed a bug in @c GU_PrimVDB::buildFromPrimVolume(), seen during the
  conversion from Houdini volumes to OpenVDB grids, that could cause
  signed flood fill to be applied to non-level set grids, resulting in
  active tiles with incorrect values.
- Added a Prune SOP with several pruning schemes.


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<B>Version 1.1.1</B> - <I>May 10 2013</I>
- Added a simple @vdblink::tools::Dense dense grid class@endlink and tools
  to copy data from dense voxel arrays into OpenVDB grids and vice-versa.
- Starting with Houdini 12.5.396, plugins built with this version
  of OpenVDB can coexist with native Houdini OpenVDB nodes.
- The level set fracture tool now smooths seam line edges during
  mesh extraction, eliminating staircase artifacts.
- Significantly improved the performance of the
  @vdblink::util::leafTopologyIntersection()
  leafTopologyIntersection@endlink and
  @vdblink::util::leafTopologyDifference() leafTopologyDifference@endlink
  utilities and added a @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::topologyDifference()
  LeafNode::topologyDifference@endlink method.
- Added convenience functions that provide simplified interfaces
  to the @vdblink::tools::meshToLevelSet() mesh to volume@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::volumeToMesh() volume to mesh@endlink converters.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::accumulate() tools::accumulate@endlink function
  that is similar to @vdblink::tools::foreach() tools::foreach@endlink
  but can be used to accumulate the results of computations over the values
  of a grid.
- Added @vdblink::tools::statistics() tools::statistics@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::opStatistics() tools::opStatistics@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::histogram() tools::histogram@endlink, which efficiently
  compute statistics (mean, variance, etc.) and histograms of grid values
  (using @vdblink::math::Stats math::Stats@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::Histogram math::Histogram@endlink).
- Modified @vdblink::math::CoordBBox CoordBBox@endlink to adhere to
  TBB&rsquo;s splittable type requirements, so that, for example,
  a @c CoordBBox can be used as a blocked iteration range.
- Added @vdblink::tree::Tree::addTile() Tree::addTile@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::addLeaf() Tree::addLeaf@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::stealNode() Tree::stealNode@endlink, for fine
  control over tree construction.
- Addressed a numerical stability issue when performing Gaussian
  filtering of level set grids.
- Changed the return type of @vdblink::math::CoordBBox::volume()
  CoordBBox::volume@endlink to reduce the risk of overflow.
- When the input mesh is self-intersecting, the mesh to volume converter
  now produces a level set with a monotonic gradient field.
- Fixed a threading bug in the mesh to volume converter that caused it
  to produce different results for the same input.
- Fixed a bug in the particle to level set converter that prevented
  particles with zero velocity from being rasterized in Trail mode.
- Added an optional input to the Create SOP into which to merge
  newly-created grids.
- Fixed a bug in the Resample SOP that caused it to produce incorrect
  narrow-band widths when resampling level set grids.
- Fixed a bug in the To Polygons SOP that caused intermittent crashes
  when the optional reference input was connected.
- Fixed a bug in the Advect Level Set SOP that caused a crash
  when the velocity input was connected but empty.
- The Scatter and Sample Point SOPs now warn instead of erroring
  when given empty grids.
- Fixed a crash in @c vdb_view when stepping through multiple grids
  after changing render modes.
- @c vdb_view can now render fog volumes and vector fields, and it now
  features interactively adjustable clipping planes that enable
  one to view the interior of a volume.


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<B>Version 1.1.0</B> - <I>April 4 2013</I>
- The @vdblink::tools::resampleToMatch() resampleToMatch@endlink tool,
  the Resample SOP and the Combine SOP now use level set rebuild to correctly
  and safely resample level sets.  Previously, scaling a level set would
  invalidate the signed distance field, leading to holes and other artifacts.
- Added a mask-based topological tools::erodeVoxels() erosion tool and rewrote
  and simplified the tools::dilateVoxels() dilation tool.
- The @vdblink::tools::LevelSetAdvection LevelSetAdvection@endlink tool
  can now advect forward or backward in time.
- Tree::pruneLevelSet() now replaces each pruned node with a tile having
  the inside or outside
  background value, instead of arbitrarily selecting one of the node&rsquo;s
  tile or voxel values.
- When a grid is saved to a file with
  @vdblink::Grid::saveFloatAsHalf() saveFloatAsHalf@endlink set to @c true,
  the grid&rsquo;s background value is now also quantized to 16 bits.
  (Not quantizing the background value caused a mismatch with the values
  of background tiles.)
- As with @vdblink::tools::foreach() tools::foreach@endlink, it is now
  possible to specify whether functors passed to
  @vdblink::tools::transformValues() tools::transformValues@endlink
  should be shared across threads.
- @vdblink::tree::LeafManager tree::LeafManager@endlink can now be
  instantiated with a @const tree, although buffer swapping with @const trees
  is disabled.
- Added a @vdblink::Grid::signedFloodFill() Grid::signedFloodFill@endlink
  overload that allows one to specify inside and outside values.
- Fixed a bug in Grid::setBackground() so that now only the values of
  inactive voxels change.
- Fixed @vdblink::Grid::topologyUnion() Grid::topologyUnion@endlink so that
  it actually unions tree topology, instead of just the active states
  of tiles and voxels.  The previous behavior broke multithreaded code
  that relied on input and output grids having compatible tree topology.
- @vdblink::math::Transform math::Transform@endlink now includes an
  @vdblink::math::Transform::isIdentity() isIdentity@endlink predicate
  and methods to @vdblink::math::Transform::preMult(const Mat4d&) pre-@endlink
  and @vdblink::math::Transform::postMult(const Mat4d&) postmultiply@endlink
  by a matrix.
- Modified the @link NodeMasks.h node mask@endlink classes to permit
  octree-like tree configurations (i.e., with a branching factor of two)
  and to use 64-bit operations instead of 32-bit operations.
- Implemented a new, more efficient
  @vdblink::math::closestPointOnTriangleToPoint() closest point
  on triangle@endlink algorithm.
- Implemented a new vertex normal scheme in the volume to mesh
  converter, and resolved some overlapping polygon issues.
- The volume to mesh converter now meshes not just active voxels
  but also active tiles.
- Fixed a bug in the mesh to volume converter that caused unsigned
  distance field conversion to produce empty grids.
- Fixed a bug in the level set fracture tool whereby the cutter overlap
  toggle was ignored.
- Fixed an infinite loop bug in @c vdb_view.
- Updated @c vdb_view to use the faster and less memory-intensive
  OpenVDB volume to mesh converter instead of marching cubes,
  and rewrote the shader to be OpenGL 3.2 and GLSL 1.2 compatible.
- Given multiple input files or a file containing multiple grids,
  @c vdb_view now displays one grid at a time.  The left and right
  arrow keys cycle between grids.
- The To Polygons SOP now has an option to associate the input grid&rsquo;s
  name with each output polygon.


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<B>Version 1.0.0</B> - <I>March 14 2013</I>
- @vdblink::tools::levelSetRebuild() tools::levelSetRebuild@endlink
  now throws an exception when given a non-scalar or non-floating-point grid.
- The tools in tools/GridOperators.h are now interruptible, as is
  the Analysis SOP.
- Added a
  @vdblink::tree::LeafManager::LeafRange::Iterator leaf node iterator@endlink
  and a TBB-compatible
  @vdblink::tree::LeafManager::LeafRange range class@endlink
  to the LeafManager.
- Modified the @vdblink::tools::VolumeToMesh VolumeToMesh@endlink tool
  to handle surface topology issues around fracture seam lines.
- Modified the Makefile to allow @c vdb_view to compile on OS X systems
  (provided that GLFW is available).
- Fixed a bug in the Create SOP that resulted in "invalid parameter name"
  warnings.
- The Combine SOP now optionally resamples the A grid into the B grid&rsquo;s
  index space (or vice-versa) if the A and B transforms differ.
- The Vector Split and Vector Merge SOPs now skip inactive voxels
  by default, but they can optionally be made to include inactive voxels,
  as they did before.
- The @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFracture LevelSetFracture@endlink tool now
  supports custom rotations for each cutter instance, and the Fracture SOP
  now uses quaternions to generate uniformly-distributed random rotations.


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<B>Version 0.104.0</B> - <I>February 15 2013</I>
- Added a @vdblink::tools::levelSetRebuild() tool@endlink and a SOP
  to rebuild a level set from any scalar volume.
- @c .vdb files are now saved using a mask-based compression scheme
  that is an order of magnitude faster than ZLIB and produces comparable
  file sizes for level set and fog volume grids.  (ZLIB compression
  is still enabled by default for other classes of grids).
- The @vdblink::tools::Filter Filter@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFilter LevelSetFilter@endlink tools now
  include a Gaussian filter, and mean (box) filtering is now 10-50x faster.
- The isosurface @vdblink::tools::VolumeToMesh meshing tool@endlink
  is now more robust (to level sets with one voxel wide narrow bands,
  for example).
- Mesh to volume conversion is on average 1.5x faster and up to 5.5x
  faster for high-resolution meshes where the polygon/voxel size ratio
  is small.
- Added @vdblink::createLevelSet() createLevelSet@endlink and
  @vdblink::createLevelSetSphere() createLevelSetSphere@endlink
  factory functions for level set grids.
- @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor tree::ValueAccessor@endlink is now faster
  for trees of height 2, 3 and 4 (the latter is the default), and it now
  allows one to specify, via a template argument, the number of node levels
  to be cached, which can also improve performance in special cases.
- Added a toggle to @vdblink::tools::foreach() tools::foreach@endlink
  to specify whether or not the functor should be shared across threads.
- Added @vdblink::Mat4SMetadata Mat4s@endlink and
  @vdblink::Mat4DMetadata Mat4d@endlink metadata types.
- Added explicit pre- and postmultiplication methods to the @c Transform,
  @c Map and @c Mat4 classes and deprecated the old accumulation methods.
- Modified @vdblink::math::NonlinearFrustumMap NonlinearFrustumMap@endlink
  to be more compatible with Houdini&rsquo;s frustum transform.
- Fixed a @vdblink::tools::GridTransformer GridTransformer@endlink bug
  that caused it to translate the output grid incorrectly in some cases.
- Fixed a bug in the tree-level
  @vdblink::tree::LeafIteratorBase LeafIterator@endlink that resulted in
  intermittent crashes in @c tools::dilateVoxels().
- The @c Hermite data type and Hermite grids are no longer supported.
- Added tools/GridOperators.h, which includes new, cleaner implementations
  of the @vdblink::tools::cpt() closest point transform@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::curl() curl@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::divergence() divergence@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::gradient() gradient@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::laplacian() Laplacian@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::magnitude() magnitude@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::meanCurvature() mean curvature@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::normalize() normalize@endlink tools.
- Interrupt support has been improved in several tools, including
  @vdblink::tools::ParticlesToLevelSet tools::ParticlesToLevelSet@endlink.
- Simplified the API of the @vdblink::math::BaseStencil Stencil@endlink class
  and added an @vdblink::math::BaseStencil::intersects() intersects@endlink
  method to test for intersection with a specified isovalue.
- Renamed @c voxelDimensions to @c voxelSize in transform classes
  and elsewhere.
- Deprecated @c houdini_utils::ParmFactory::setChoiceList in favor of
  @c houdini_utils::ParmFactory::setChoiceListItems, which requires
  a list of <I>token, label</I> string pairs.
- Made various changes for Visual C++ compatibility.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- Fixed a bug in @c houdini_utils::getNodeChain() that caused the
  Offset Level Set, Smooth Level Set and Renormalize Level Set SOPs
  to ignore frame changes.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- The From Particles SOP now provides the option to write into
  an existing grid.
- Added a SOP to edit grid metadata.
- The Fracture SOP now supports multiple cutter objects.
- Added a To Polygons SOP that complements the Fracture SOP and allows
  for elimination of seam lines, generation of correct vertex normals
  and grouping of polygons when surfacing fracture fragments, using
  the original level set or mesh as a reference.


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<B>Version 0.103.1</B> - <I>January 15 2013</I>
- @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor tree::ValueAccessor@endlink read operations
  are now faster for four-level trees.
  (Preliminary benchmark tests suggest a 30-40% improvement.)
- For vector-valued grids, @vdblink::tools::compMin() tools::compMin@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::compMax() tools::compMax@endlink now compare
  vector magnitudes instead of individual components.
- Migrated grid sampling code to a new file, Interpolation.h,
  and deprecated old files and classes.
- Added a level-set @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFracture fracture tool@endlink
  and a Fracture SOP.
- Added @vdblink::tools::sdfInteriorMask() tools::sdfInteriorMask@endlink,
  which creates a mask of the interior region of a level set grid.
- Fixed a bug in the mesh to volume converter that produced unexpected
  nonzero values for voxels at the intersection of two polygons,
  and another bug that produced narrow-band widths that didn&rsquo;t respect
  the background value when the half-band width was less than three voxels.
- @c houdini_utils::ParmFactory can now correctly generate ramp multi-parms.
- Made various changes for Visual C++ compatibility.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- The Convert SOP can now convert between signed distance fields and
  fog volumes and from volumes to meshes.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- For level sets, the From Mesh and From Particles SOPs now match
  the reference grid&rsquo;s narrow-band width.
- The Scatter SOP can now optionally scatter points in the interior
  of a level set.


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<B>Version 0.103.0</B> - <I>December 21 2012</I>
- The mesh to volume converter is now 60% faster at generating
  level sets with wide bands, and the From Mesh SOP is now interruptible.
- Fixed a threading bug in the recently-added
  @vdblink::tools::compReplace() compReplace@endlink tool
  that caused it to produce incorrect output.
- Added a @vdblink::tree::Tree::probeConstLeaf() probeConstLeaf@endlink
  method to the @vdblink::tree::Tree::probeConstLeaf() Tree@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor::probeConstLeaf() ValueAccessor@endlink
  and @vdblink::tree::RootNode::probeConstLeaf() node@endlink classes.
- The Houdini VDB primitive doesn&rsquo;t create a @c name attribute
  unnecessarily (i.e., if its grid&rsquo;s name is empty), but it now
  correctly allows the name to be changed to the empty string.
- Fixed a crash in the Vector Merge SOP when fewer than three grids
  were merged.
- The From Particles SOP now features a "maximum half-width" parameter
  to help avoid runaway computations.


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<B>Version 0.102.0</B> - <I>December 13 2012</I>
- Added @vdblink::tools::compReplace() tools::compReplace@endlink,
  which copies the active values of one grid into another, and added
  a "Replace A With Active B" mode to the Combine SOP.
- @vdblink::Grid::signedFloodFill() Grid::signedFloodFill@endlink
  no longer enters an infinite loop when filling an empty grid.
- Fixed a bug in the particle to level set converter that sometimes
  produced level sets with holes, and fixed a bug in the SOP that
  could result in random output.
- Fixed an issue in the frustum preview feature of the Create SOP
  whereby rendering very large frustums could cause high CPU usage.
- Added streamline support to the constrained advection scheme
  in the Advect Points SOP.
- Added an Advect Level Set SOP.


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<B>Version 0.101.1</B> - <I>December 11 2012</I> (DWA internal release)
- Partially reverted the Houdini VDB primitive&rsquo;s grid accessor methods
  to their pre-0.98.0 behavior.  A primitive&rsquo;s grid can once again
  be accessed by shared pointer, but now also by reference.
  Accessor methods for grid metadata have also been added, and the
  primitive now ensures that metadata and transforms are never shared.
- Fixed an intermittent crash in the From Particles SOP.


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<B>Version 0.101.0</B> - <I>December 6 2012</I> (DWA internal release)
- Partially reverted the @vdblink::Grid Grid@endlink&rsquo;s
  @vdblink::Grid::tree() tree@endlink and
  @vdblink::Grid::transform() transform@endlink accessor methods
  to their pre-0.98.0 behavior, eliminating copy-on-write but
  preserving their return-by-reference semantics.  These methods
  are now supplemented with a suite of
  @vdblink::Grid::treePtr() shared@endlink
  @vdblink::Grid::baseTreePtr() pointer@endlink
  @vdblink::Grid::transformPtr() accessors@endlink.
- Restructured the @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume
  mesh to volume converter@endlink for a 40% speedup
  and to be more robust to non-manifold geometry, to better preserve
  sharp features, to support arbitrary tree configurations and
  to respect narrow-band limits.
- Added a @c getNodeBoundingBox method to
  @vdblink::tree::RootNode::getNodeBoundingBox() RootNode@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::InternalNode::getNodeBoundingBox() InternalNode@endlink
  and @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::getNodeBoundingBox() LeafNode@endlink
  that returns the index space spanned by a node.
- Made various changes for Visual C++ compatibility.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- Renamed the Reshape Level Set SOP to Offset Level Set.
- Fixed a crash in the Convert SOP and added support for conversion
  of empty grids.


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<B>Version 0.100.0</B> - <I>November 30 2012</I> (DWA internal release)
- Greatly improved the performance of the level set to fog volume
  @vdblink::tools::sdfToFogVolume() converter@endlink.
- Improved the performance of the
  @vdblink::tools::Filter::median() median filter@endlink
  and of level set @vdblink::tools::csgUnion() CSG@endlink operations.
- Reintroduced Tree::pruneLevelSet(), a specialized Tree::pruneInactive()
  for level-set grids.
- Added utilities to the @c houdini_utils library to facilitate the
  collection of a chain of adjacent nodes of a particular type
  so that they can be cooked in a single step.  (For example,
  adjacent @c xform SOPs could be collapsed by composing their
  transformation matrices into a single matrix.)
- Added pruning and flood-filling options to the Convert SOP.
- Reimplemented the Filter SOP, omitting level-set-specific filters
  and adding node chaining (to reduce memory usage when applying
  several filters in sequence).
- Added a toggle to the Read SOP to read grid metadata and
  transforms only.
- Changed the attribute transfer scheme on the From Mesh and
  From Particles SOPs to allow for custom grid names and
  vector type metadata.


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<B>Version 0.99.0</B> - <I>November 21 2012</I>
- Added @vdblink::Grid Grid@endlink methods that return non-<TT>const</TT>
  tree and transform references without triggering deep copies,
  as well as @c const methods that return @c const shared pointers.
- Added @c Grid methods to @vdblink::Grid::addStatsMetadata populate@endlink
  a grid&rsquo;s metadata with statistics like the active voxel count, and to
  @vdblink::Grid::getStatsMetadata retrieve@endlink that metadata.
  By default, statistics are now computed and added to grids
  whenever they are written to <TT>.vdb</TT> files.
- Added @vdblink::io::File::readGridMetadata io::File::readGridMetadata@endlink
  and @vdblink::io::File::readAllGridMetadata
  io::File::readAllGridMetadata@endlink methods to read just the
  grid metadata and transforms from a <TT>.vdb</TT> file.
- Fixed numerical precision issues in the
  @vdblink::tools::csgUnion csgUnion@endlink,
  @vdblink::tools::csgIntersection csgIntersection@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::csgDifference csgDifference@endlink
  tools, and added toggles to optionally disable postprocess pruning.
- Fixed an issue in @c vdb_view with the ordering of GL vertex buffer calls.
  <I>[Contributed by Bill Katz]</I>
- Fixed an intermittent crash in the
  @vdblink::tools::ParticlesToLevelSet ParticlesToLevelSet@endlink tool,
  as well as a race condition that could cause data corruption.
- The @c ParticlesToLevelSet tool and From Particles SOP can now transfer
  arbitrary point attribute values from the input particles to output voxels.
- Fixed a bug in the Convert SOP whereby the names of primitives
  were lost during conversion, and another bug that resulted in
  arithmetic errors when converting empty grids.
- Fixed a bug in the Combine SOP that caused the Operation selection
  to be lost.


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<B>Version 0.98.0</B> - <I>November 16 2012</I>
- @vdblink::tree::Tree Tree@endlink and
  @vdblink::math::Transform Transform@endlink objects (and
  @vdblink::Grid Grid@endlink objects in the context of Houdini SOPs)
  are now passed and accessed primarily by reference rather than by
  shared pointer.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- Reimplemented @vdblink::math::CoordBBox CoordBBox@endlink to address several
  off-by-one bugs related to bounding box dimensions.
- Fixed an off-by-one bug in @vdblink::Grid::evalActiveVoxelBoundingBox()
  evalActiveVoxelBoundingBox@endlink.
- Introduced the @vdblink::tree::LeafManager LeafManager@endlink class,
  which will eventually replace the @c LeafArray class.  @c LeafManager supports
  dynamic buffers stored as a structure of arrays (SOA), unlike @c LeafArray,
  which supports only static buffers stored as an array of structures (AOS).
- Improved the performance of the
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFilter LevelSetFilter@endlink and
  @vdblink::tools::LevelSetTracker LevelSetTracker@endlink tools by rewriting
  them to use the new @vdblink::tree::LeafManager LeafManager@endlink class.
- Added @vdblink::tree::Tree::setValueOnly() Tree::setValueOnly@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor::setValueOnly()
  ValueAccessor::setValueOnly@endlink methods, which change the value of
  a voxel without changing its active state, and
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::probeLeaf() Tree::probeLeaf@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor::probeLeaf() ValueAccessor::probeLeaf@endlink
  methods that return the leaf node that contains a given voxel (unless
  the voxel is represented by a tile).
- Added a @vdblink::tools::LevelSetAdvection LevelSetAdvection@endlink tool
  that propagates and tracks narrow-band level sets.
- Introduced a new @vdblink::tools::GridSampler GridSampler@endlink class
  that supports world-space (or index-space) sampling of grid values.
- Changed the interpretation of the
  @vdblink::math::NonlinearFrustumMap NonlinearFrustumMap@endlink&rsquo;s
  @em taper parameter to be the ratio of the near and far plane depths.
- Added a @c ParmFactory::setChoiceList() overload that accepts
  (@em token, @em label) string pairs, and a @c setDefault() overload that
  accepts an STL string.
- Fixed a crash in the Combine SOP in Copy B mode.
- Split the Level Set Filter SOP into three separate SOPs,
  Level Set Smooth, Level Set Reshape and Level Set Renormalize.
  When two or more of these nodes are connected in sequence, they interact
  to reduce memory usage: the last node in the sequence performs
  all of the operations in one step.
- The Advect Points SOP can now output polyline streamlines
  that trace the paths of the points.
- Added an option to the Analysis SOP to specify names for output grids.
- Added camera-derived frustum transform support to the Create SOP.


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<B>Version 0.97.0</B> - <I>October 18 2012</I>
- Added a narrow-band @vdblink::tools::LevelSetTracker level set
  interface tracking tool@endlink (up to fifth-order in space but currently
  only first-order in time, with higher temporal orders to be added soon).
- Added a @vdblink::tools::LevelSetFilter level set filter tool@endlink
  to perform unrestricted surface smoothing (e.g., Laplacian flow),
  filtering (e.g., mean value) and morphological operations (e.g.,
  morphological opening).
- Added adaptivity to the @vdblink::tools::VolumeToMesh
  level set meshing tool@endlink for faster mesh extraction with fewer
  polygons, without postprocessing.
- Added a @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor::touchLeaf()
  ValueAccessor::touchLeaf@endlink method that creates (if necessary)
  and returns the leaf node containing a given voxel.  It can be used
  to preallocate leaf nodes over which to run parallel algorithms.
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::Grid::merge() Grid::merge@endlink whereby
  active tiles were sometimes lost.
- Added @vdblink::tree::LeafManager LeafManager@endlink, which is similar
  to @c LeafArray but supports a dynamic buffer count and allocates buffers
  more efficiently.  Useful for temporal integration (e.g., for level set
  propagation and interface tracking), @c LeafManager is meant to replace
  @c LeafArray, which will be deprecated in the next release.
- Added a @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::fill() LeafNode::fill@endlink method
  to efficiently populate leaf nodes with constant values.
- Added a tree::Tree::visitActiveBBox() method that applies a functor to the
  bounding boxes of all active tiles and leaf nodes and that can be used to
  improve the performance of ray intersection tests, rendering of bounding
  boxes, etc.
- Added a @vdblink::tree::Tree::voxelizeActiveTiles()
  Tree::voxelizeActiveTiles@endlink method to densify active tiles.
  While convenient and fast, this can produce large dense grids, so use
  it with caution.
- Repackaged @c Tree::pruneLevelSet() as a Tree::pruneOp()-compatible
  functor.  Tree::LevelSetPrune is a specialized Tree::pruneInactive
  for level-set grids and is used in interface tracking.
- Added a GridBase::pruneGrid() method.
- Added a @vdblink::Grid::hasUniformVoxels() Grid:hasUniformVoxels@endlink
  method.
- Renamed @c tools::dilate to @c tools::dilateVoxels() and improved its
  performance.  The new name reflects the fact that the current
  implementation ignores active tiles.
- Added a @vdblink::tools::resampleToMatch() tools::resampleToMatch@endlink
  function that resamples an input grid into an output grid with a
  different transform such that, after resampling, the input and output grids
  coincide, but the output grid&rsquo;s transform is preserved.
- Significantly improved the performance of depth-bounded value
  iterators (@vdblink::tree::Tree::ValueOnIter ValueOnIter@endlink,
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::ValueAllIter ValueAllIter@endlink, etc.)
  when the depth bound excludes leaf nodes.
- Exposed the value buffers inside leaf nodes with
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::buffer() LeafNode::buffer@endlink.
  This allows for very fast access (const and non-const) to voxel
  values using linear array offsets instead of @ijk coordinates.
- In openvdb_houdini/UT_VDBTools.h, added operators for use with
  @c processTypedGrid that resample grids in several different ways.
- Added a policy mechanism to @c houdini_utils::OpFactory that allows for
  customization of operator names, icons, and Help URLs.
- Renamed many of the Houdini SOPs to make the names more consistent.
- Added an Advect Points SOP.
- Added a Level Set Filter SOP that allows for unrestricted surface
  deformations, unlike the older Filter SOP, which restricts surface
  motion to the initial narrow band.
- Added staggered vector sampling to the Sample Points SOP.
- Added a minimum radius threshold to the particle voxelization tool
  and SOP.
- Merged the Composite and CSG SOPs into a single Combine SOP.
- Added a tool and a SOP to efficiently generate narrow-band level set
  representations of spheres.
- In the Visualize SOP, improved the performance of tree topology
  generation, which is now enabled by default.


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<B>Version 0.96.0</B> - <I>September 24 2012</I>
- Fixed a memory corruption bug in the mesh voxelizer tool.
- Temporarily removed the optional clipping feature from the level set mesher.
- Added "Staggered Vector Field" to the list of grid classes in the Create SOP.


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<B>Version 0.95.0</B> - <I>September 20 2012</I>
- Added a quad @vdblink::tools::VolumeToMesh meshing@endlink tool for
  higher-quality level set meshing and updated the Visualizer SOP
  to use it.
- Fixed a precision error in the @vdblink::tools::meshToVolume
  mesh voxelizer@endlink and improved the quality of inside/outside
  voxel classification.  Output grids are now also
  @vdblink::Grid::setGridClass() classified@endlink as either level sets
  or fog volumes.
- Modified the @vdblink::tools::GridResampler GridResampler@endlink
  to use the signed flood fill optimization only on grids that are
  tagged as level sets.
- Added a @vdblink::math::Quat quaternion@endlink class to the
  math library and a method to return the
  @vdblink::math::Mat3::trace trace@endlink of a @c Mat3.
- Fixed a bug in the
  @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor::ValueAccessor(const ValueAccessor&)
  ValueAccessor@endlink copy constructor that caused the copy to reference
  the original.
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::tree::RootNode::setActiveState()
  RootNode::setActiveState@endlink that caused a crash
  when marking a (virtual) background voxel as inactive.
- Added a @c Tree::pruneLevelSet method that is similar to but faster than
  Tree::pruneInactive() for level set grids.
- Added fast leaf node voxel access
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::getValue(Index) const methods@endlink
  that index by linear offset (as returned by
  @vdblink::tree::LeafNode::ValueOnIter::pos() ValueIter::pos@endlink)
  instead of by @ijk coordinates.
- Added a @vdblink::tree::Tree::touchLeaf() Tree::touchLeaf@endlink
  method that can be used to preallocate a static tree topology over which
  to safely perform multithreaded processing.
- Added a grain size argument to @c LeafArray for finer control of parallelism.
- Modified the Makefile to make it easier to omit the <TT>doc</TT>,
  @c vdb_test and @c vdb_view targets.
- Added utility functions (in <TT>houdini/UT_VDBUtils.h</TT>) to convert
  between Houdini and OpenVDB matrix and vector types.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- Added accessors to @c GEO_PrimVDB that make it easier to directly access
  voxel data and that are used by the HScript volume expression functions
  in Houdini 12.5.  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- As of Houdini 12.1.77, the native transform SOP operates on OpenVDB
  primitives.  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- Added a Convert SOP that converts OpenVDB grids to Houdini volumes
  and vice-versa.


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<B>Version 0.94.1</B> - <I>September 7 2012</I>
- Fixed bugs in @vdblink::tree::RootNode RootNode@endlink and
  @vdblink::tree::InternalNode InternalNode@endlink @c setValue*() and
  @c fill() methods that could cause neighboring voxels to become inactive.
- Fixed a bug in
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::hasSameTopology() Tree::hasSameTopology@endlink
  that caused false positives when only active states and not values differed.
- Added a @vdblink::tree::Tree::hasActiveTiles() Tree::hasActiveTiles@endlink
  method.
- For better cross-platform consistency, substituted bitwise AND operations
  for right shifts in the @vdblink::tree::ValueAccessor ValueAccessor@endlink
  hash key computation.
- @c vdb_view no longer aborts when asked to surface a vector-valued
  grid&mdash;but it still doesn&rsquo;t render the surface.
- Made various changes for Visual C++ compatibility.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- Added an option to the MeshVoxelizer SOP to convert both open and
  closed surfaces to unsigned distance fields.
- The Filter SOP now allows multiple filters to be applied in
  user-specified order.


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<B>Version 0.94.0</B> - <I>August 30 2012</I>
- Added a @vdblink::Grid::topologyUnion() method@endlink to union
  just the active states of voxels from one grid with those of
  another grid of a possibly different type.
- Fixed an incorrect scale factor in the Laplacian diffusion
  @vdblink::tools::Filter::laplacian() filter@endlink.
- Fixed a bug in @vdblink::tree::Tree::merge() Tree::merge@endlink
  that could leave a tree with invalid value accessors.
- Added @vdblink::tree::TreeValueIteratorBase::setActiveState()
  TreeValueIteratorBase::setActiveState@endlink and deprecated
  @c setValueOn.
- Removed @c tools/FastSweeping.h.  It will be replaced with a much more
  efficient implementation in the near future.
- ZLIB compression of <TT>.vdb</TT> files is now optional,
  but enabled by default.  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- Made various changes for Clang and Visual C++ compatibility.
  <I>[Contributed by SESI]</I>
- The MeshVoxelizer SOP can now transfer arbitrary point and primitive
  attribute values from the input mesh to output voxels.


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<B>Version 0.93.0</B> - <I>August 24 2012</I>
- Renamed symbols in math/Operators.h to avoid ambiguities that
  GCC&nbsp;4.4 reports as errors.
- Simplified the API for the stencil version of the
  closest-point transform @vdblink::math::CPT operator@endlink.
- Added logic to
  @vdblink::io::Archive::readGrid() io::Archive::readGrid@endlink
  to set the grid name metadata from the descriptor if the metadata
  doesn&rsquo;t already exist.
- Added guards to prevent nesting of @c openvdb_houdini::Interrupter::start()
  and @c end() calls.


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<B>Version 0.92.0</B> - <I>August 23 2012</I>
- Added a Laplacian diffusion
  @vdblink::tools::Filter::laplacian() filter@endlink.
- Fixed a bug in the initialization of the sparse contour tracer
  that caused mesh-to-volume conversion to fail in certain cases.
- Fixed a bug in the curvature stencil that caused mean curvature
  filtering to produce wrong results.
- Increased the speed of the
  @vdblink::tools::GridTransformer GridTransformer@endlink
  by as much as 20% for fog volumes.
- Added optional pruning to the Resample SOP.
- Modified the PointSample SOP to allow it to work with ungrouped,
  anonymous grids.
- Fixed a crash in the LevelSetNoise SOP.


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<B>Version 0.91.0</B> - <I>August 16 2012</I>
- @vdblink::tools::GridTransformer tools::GridTransformer@endlink
  and @vdblink::tools::GridResampler tools::GridResampler@endlink
  now correctly (but not yet efficiently) process tiles in sparse grids.
- Added an optional @c CopyPolicy argument
  to @vdblink::GridBase::copyGrid() GridBase::copyGrid@endlink
  and to @vdblink::Grid::copy() Grid::copy@endlink that specifies
  whether and how the grid&rsquo;s tree should be copied.
- Added a @vdblink::GridBase::newTree() GridBase::newTree@endlink
  method that replaces a grid&rsquo;s tree with a new, empty tree of the
  correct type.
- Fixed a crash in
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::setValueOff(const Coord& xyz, const ValueType& value)
  Tree::setValueOff@endlink when the new value was equal to the
  background value.
- Fixed bugs in Tree::prune() that could result in output tiles with
  incorrect active states.
- Added @c librt to the link dependencies to address build failures
  on Ubuntu systems.
- Made various small changes to the Makefile and the source code
  that should help with Mac OS&nbsp;X compatibility.
- The Composite and Resample SOPs now correctly copy the input grid&rsquo;s
  metadata to the output grid.


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<B>Version 0.90.1</B> - <I>August 7 2012</I>
- Fixed a bug in the
  @vdblink::math::BBox::getCenter() BBox::getCenter()@endlink method.
- Added missing header files to various files.
- @vdblink::io::File::NameIterator::gridName()
  io::File::NameIterator::gridName()@endlink now returns a unique name
  of the form <TT>"name[1]"</TT>, <TT>"name[2]"</TT>, etc. if a file
  contains multiple grids with the same name.
- Fixed a bug in the Writer SOP that caused grid names to be discarded.
- The Resample SOP now correctly sets the background value of the
  output grid.


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<B>Version 0.90.0</B> - <I>August 3 2012</I> (initial public release)
- Added a basic GL viewer for OpenVDB files.
- Greatly improved the performance of two commonly-used @c Tree methods,
  @vdblink::tree::Tree::evalActiveVoxelBoundingBox()
  evalActiveVoxelBoundingBox()@endlink
  and @vdblink::tree::Tree::memUsage() memUsage()@endlink.
- Eliminated the @c GridMap class.  File I/O now uses STL containers
  of grid pointers instead.
- Refactored stencil-based tools (Gradient, Laplacian, etc.) and rewrote
  some of them for generality and better performance.  Most now behave
  correctly for grids with nonlinear index-to-world transforms.
- Added a @link FiniteDifference.h library@endlink of index-space finite
  difference operators.
- Added a Hermite grid type that compactly
  stores each voxel&rsquo;s upwind normals and can be used to convert volumes
  to and from polygonal meshes.
- Added a @link PointScatter.h tool@endlink (and a Houdini SOP)
  to scatter points randomly throughout a volume.

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