PIVMat Release Notes

PIVMat Release Notes


V1.30 (2005/12/20) The toolbox is now called PIVMat.
Standard items for the toolbox in the Matlab 'Start' menu.
New about and checkupdate. New home page.
File 'readme.txt' retired.
Bugs fixed for loadvec, due to changes in ReadIMX 1.4 (changes in the VY sign for Y-upward fields). Multiple file selection allowed.
Bug fixed for showvec (bounds).
V1.20 (2005/11/18) LaVision's MatlabIMX package not included any more; it has to be installed separately.
showvec improved (accept file numbers).
vec2scal improved (option 'angle').
V1.13 (2005/10/30) New functions vec2mat, operf, batchvec, addnoisef.
Bug fixed for filterf.
statf improved (history).
V1.12 (2005/10/21) The bugs with up/downward Y axis are fixed in loadvec, loadpivtxt, vec2scal, showvec and showscal.
New functions shiftf and loadarrayvec.
showvec and showscal improved (pause mode).
vec2scal improved (option minus).
spaverf now computes average of non zero elements.
vortex improved (burgers vortex with divergence).
texunderscore replaced by texliteral.
Online help files from m2html.
V1.11 (2005/10/14) truncf, extractf, bwfilterf, filterf, rotatef, averf, subaverf and ensaverf work now for both vector and scalar fields (truncvec, truncscal etc. retired).
readpivtxt and dav2mat retired, replaced by loadpivtxt.
loadvec now accepts TXT, SET and MAT files.
New functions from Fileseries toolbox 1.01 (rrmdir, rdelete).
V1.10 (2005/10/07) New functions getfilenum, rdir, renamefile.
renumberfile improved.
completefilename and pickfile retired (see rdir).
loadvec and loadset improved (uses rdir, txt files allowed).
showvec(-scal) improved (colormap label, titles and arrow scaling).
submeanvec improved, now called subavervec(scal).
New functions avervec(scal) and ensavervec(scal).
V1.05 (2005/09/29) loadset and loadvec improved ('nosave' option added, filename expansion).
filtervec(-scal) improved.
New functions expandstr and pickfile.
buildfilename retired.
v1.04 (2005/09/23) Upward and Downward Y-axis recognized: Files that have a downward Y-axis have the v_y component inversed (variable "manip" suppressed).
v1.03 (2005/09/09) Sample directory and readme.txt file (this one) added.
loadset and showvec improved.
v1.02 (2005/09/05) loadvec and loadset improved: multiple files/sets and wildwards allowed.
v1.01 (2005/08/31)First online release.
Compatible with Davis 7.
New functions included (filters, stats...)
v1.00 (2005/02/23)First release (original name: davis toolbox)

Acknowledgements

This toolbox has been extensively tested by C. Morize.

LaVision and J. Heers are thanked for the ReadIMX Loader package.

Beta-testers are also thanked (S. Kiesgen, L. Messio, J. Casoli, M. D'Olce).