pywwt/CHANGELOG.md

pypa:pywwt 0.21.0 (2023-07-28)

• Update pywwt to work with version 7 of the Jupyter notebook package (#356, @Carifio24, @pkgw). This new version is a major update on the Jupyter side, but it is only used in a few minor places within pywwt. The pywwt package should remain compatible with older versions of notebook.
• Fix pywwt’s default ecliptic grid color to match the engine (#356, @Carifio24).

pypa:pywwt 0.20.0 (2023-07-06)

• Expose new engine settings relating to the display of constellations, coordinate grids, and their colors (#354, #355, @Carifio24). New properties are alt_az_grid_color, alt_az_text, constellation_pictures, constellation_labels, ecliptic_color, ecliptic_grid_color, ecliptic_text, galactic_grid_color, galactic_text, grid_color, grid_text, precession_chart, and precession_chart_color.
• The new version of the engine also adds the ability to rotate the WWT view on touch devices with a two-finger twist gesture.

pypa:pywwt 0.19.2 (2023-05-30)

• Require the version 0.14.3 of the research app, to get a fix for communicating information about catalog sources (#353, @pkgw; pulls in WorldWideTelescope/wwt-webgl-engine#251, @Carifio24).

pypa:pywwt 0.19.1 (2023-05-26)

• Use version 0.14.2 of the research app in the bundled widget frontend, to get a fix for HiPS catalogs loaded in HTTPS contexts (#352, @pkgw).

pypa:pywwt 0.19.0 (2023-03-08)

• Allow the roll angle of the WWT camera to be both read and written (#349, @Carifio24).

pypa:pywwt 0.18.1 (2023-02-27)

• Make pywwt compatible with Qt6 (#346, @astrofrog)

pypa:pywwt 0.18.0 (2023-02-02)

• Update the FITS viewing code to use a temporary directory as a fallback if it's not possible to write to the directory containing the FITS input(s) (#344, @Carifio24).
• Update pywwt's serialization of table size attributes to match the current implementation (#345, @Carifio24). They weren't being properly saved and loaded before.

pypa:pywwt 0.17.0 (2022-12-01)

• Require version 0.12 of the research app, to get the latest improvements including the Vue 3 update (#342, @pkgw).

The DOI of this release is 10.5281/zenodo.7388030.

pypa:pywwt 0.16.2 (2022-10-26)

• Update a construct in setupbase.py to fix installation with Python 3.11 (#340, @dhomeier).
• Update the export of interactive figure data to work with named colormaps (#339, @Carifio24).

The DOI of this release is 10.5281/zenodo.7255701.

pypa:pywwt 0.16.1 (2022-10-12)

• Fix loading of HDULists as image layers (#337, @pkgw)

The DOI of this release is 10.5281/zenodo.7187355.

pypa:pywwt 0.16.0 (2022-10-08)

This release improves the support for viewing arbitrarily-sized FITS files in pywwt, taking advantage of the new support in the Toasty library for all-sky datasets! Version 0.18 of Toasty, or newer, is now required.

Another cool new change is that pywwt releases are now automatically deposited with Zenodo and assigned DOIs in the process. This makes it possible to cite the pywwt software, indicating exactly which version you were using, in scholarly contexts!

• Handle all-sky FITS files with TOAST rather than hipsgen, using the newest Toasty features (#335, @imbasimba).
• Allow toggling whether or not a table layer is selectable (#334, @Carifio24).
• Allow the time_decay attribute of layers to be serialized (#332, @Carifio24).
• Make it possible to customize the app URL used by the Jupter widget (#331, @pkgw).
• Implement automated Zenodo deposit with DOI registration (@pkgw)

The DOI of this release is 10.5281/zenodo.7164148.

pypa:pywwt 0.15.2 (2022-01-19)

• Update the bundled version of the research app to 0.9.2, to ensure we have support for naming imageset layers (#326, @pkgw)

pypa:pywwt 0.15.1 (2022-01-17)

• Fix installation on Python 3.10 (#325, @pkgw)
• Fix a small logic error with imageset naming that prevented some imagesets from loading in the app (#325, @pkgw)

pypa:pywwt 0.15.0 (2022-01-14)

This release adds support for viewing arbitrarily-sized FITS files in pywwt, with automatic tiling provided by the Toasty library!

• Extend the existing FITS viewing support to automatically tile FITS images if needed, using either Toasty or CDS' hipsgen depending on the angular size of the image (#316, @imbasimba). While the Python interfaces don't look any different, there is now a lot more machinery under the hood so that pywwt can perform well whether your FITS file is a megabyte or a gigabyte in size.
• Use the new WWT Kernel Data Relay (KDR) for serving up kernel-side data in Jupyter (#316, @pkgw, @imbasimba). You will now need to install the Python package wwt_kernel_data_relay as a Jupyter Server extension for FITS viewing to work in pywwt. This extension is necessary for pywwt to be able to send FITS data to the WWT web app on-demand, as you navigate an image. The KDR extension should be useful for other similar visualization tools as well.
• Lots of other under-the-hood work to get asynchronous tiling and data service working smoothly.
• Automatically use better default names and data cuts when viewing FITS files (#323, @imbasimba).
• Substantially clean up and (hopefully) improve the documentation (#318, #324, @pkgw). This includes a new documentation theme based on the Astropy docs.

pypa:pywwt 0.14.0 (2021-11-01)

• When pywwt is installed as a Jupyter server extension, have it provide its static resource files, most notably the bundled copy of the research app, from the additional URL path $jupyterBaseUrl/wwtstatic/.... Coupled with the recent releases of the WWT JupyterLab extension to make the app URL configurable, this should give us a future-proof way to make the WWT JupyterLab experience fully functional even in Jupyter(Lab) installations that reject all cross-origin data requests (#315, @pkgw).

pypa:pywwt 0.13.1 (2021-10-14)

• Update the Jupyter(Lab) frontend code to fix a dumb bug that broke the widget when the "baseUrl" was non-trivial (#314, @pkgw).

pypa:pywwt 0.13.0 (2021-09-24)

This is an important release, updating all variations of the pywwt UI — the Qt widget, the ipywidgets widget, and the JupyterLab integration — to use the WWT “research app”, instead of the old hand-coded HTML/JS wrapper that was specific to pywwt. This enables us to take advantage of the app's much more sophisticated UI and robust development framework, and to provide a homogeneous user interface across these different variations. (#301, #302, @pkgw)

• This release bundles version 0.7.1 of the research app, which includes support for many new features, including catalog HiPS datasets, tiled FITS rendering, and more.
• Building in the capabilities of this new framework, the WWT widget has gained most_recent_source and selected_sources properties that allow code to interact with user selections of sources in the UI. Python code can be notified of selection actions by using the set_selection_change_callback() method. (#311, @Carifio24)
• Also building on the new framework, the WWT widget now knows about HiPS progressive catalogs (#308, @imbasimba, @pkgw). You can query available catalogs (via the available_hips_catalog_names) property, add them to the UI programmatically with wwt.layers.add_hips_catalog_layer, and obtain the data currently visible in the WWT view with the layer.refresh() method.
• To support the above, pywwt has started adding asynchronous processing support (#308, @pkgw). When pywwt is used inside a Jupyter kernel, the internals of the kernel message queue processing are modified to allow "expedited" message handling, which is needed to properly support certain pywwt interactive functionalities. This hack is relatively self-contained so hopefully it won't be too fragile, but time will have to tell.
• The wwt.load_image_collection() method now has a recursive for nested WTML files (#308, @imbasimba).
• The WWT widget constructors have a new hide_all_chrome option that hides all of the research app’s “chrome” (UI features), to enable a user experience that looks similar to the old pre-app style. This mode is the default in the Qt widget, so as to preserve the UX of the Glue app.
• Fix pywwt to be able to parse ImageSet XML data even when the ThumbnailUrl attribute is missing (#312, @Carifio24).
• Fixes for Astropy 4.3 (#310, @pkgw).
• The type of the wwt.solar_system.scale setting was corrected.
• The Jupyter server was failing to serve files with unguessable content-types; this is now fixed.
• Yet more improvements to the CI, test suite, and API documentation.

Tutorial and how-to documentation for all of this new functionality hasn't been prepared ... yet.

pypa:pywwt 0.12.0 (2021-06-14)

• A variety of internal cleanups relating to the HTML and JS files that are bundled with pywwt. These shouldn't affect anything user-visible, yet, but we want to publish the cleaned-up code to validate that everything is still working correctly.
• Some improvements to the documentation and test suite.

pypa:pywwt 0.11.3 (2021-06-09)

• Another attempt to get ReadTheDocs to update the "stable" version of the documentation. We need to automate updating of the stable Git branch.

pypa:pywwt 0.11.2 (2021-06-09)

• Tidy up and modernize the installation instructions. Our ReadTheDocs defaults to the "stable" version of the docs, so we need to make a release to get them to show up for most folks.

pypa:pywwt 0.11.1 (2021-06-03)

• Add compatibility with the change in how the engine handles the transparentBlack setting for FITS datasets. The code is written to maintain compatibility with older versions of the engine as well (@imbasimba).
• Update some test-suite images to account for the changes in the new WebGL-based fits rendering (@pkgw).
• Temporarily disable checking of outgoing links in the docs, since Matplotlib currently has a problem that causes the check to fail (@pkgw).

pypa:pywwt 0.11.0 (2021-02-09)

• First-draft support for the JupyterLab application. Rather then providing the WWT view as a widget tied to a specific notebook cell, the application provides it as a freestanding window that can exist separately from any one notebook or cell. This app is developed independently as a Vue app, so it's a lot easier to add native UI to it, as compared to the HTML widget that we have to provide in our plugin here.

pypa:pywwt 0.10.4 (2021-01-27)

• Fix the sizing of circle annotations upon creation
• Include the latest bundled version of the JavaScript frontend, which should hopefully fix the widget in JupyterLab 3.x.

pypa:pywwt 0.10.3 (2021-01-25)

• Attempt to fix the Qt widget on macOS computers. It appears that a recent update to our HTML introduced some JavaScript syntax that the Qt framework doesn't allow.

pypa:pywwt 0.10.2 (2021-01-08)

• Fix URL identification for JupyterLab 3
• CI fixes

pypa:pywwt 0.10.1 (2020-10-22)

• Update the bundled NPM package to fix various corner cases with multiple and/or evolving views of the Jupyter widget.
• Set the initial widget view to the Galactic Center, so that it's more obvious that everything is working when you start up the widget.

pypa:pywwt 0.10.0 (2020-10-21)

• Fix build for traitlets >= 5.0 and in fact start requiring it.
• Update minimum Python version to 3.7, as required by traitlets 5.
• Require version 1.0 of the NPM package, so that we extrapolate clock information from data provided by the JavaScript layer. This dramatically reduces the level of traffic between the JS and Python layers.
• Adopt Cranko for release automation, and revamp the continuous integration infrastructure to implement such automation.

pywwt 0.9.0 (2020-08-29)

• pywwt now obtains the WWT WebGL SDK code from web.wwtassets.org, rather than a private copy hosted on the pywwt GitHub Pages instance.
• Live notebook links now point to mybinder.org rather than the old private WWT instance of BinderHub, because HTTPS support is now working!
• Fix Jupyter server plumbing when operating in the JupyterHub single-user environment.

pywwt 0.8.0 (2020-04-03)

• Improve performance when changing size parameters for tabular layers. In these cases, the performance is e.g. more than 1000x better for a 50,000 row dataset. [#224]
• Improve performance when changing colormap parameters for tabular layers, for a subset of colormaps. In these cases, the performance is e.g. more than 1000x better for a 50,000 row dataset. [#223]
• Added a cmap parameter on image layers to control the colormap. [#244]
• Incorporate time series behavior for data layers; add method that returns current time in the viewer. [#187]
• Drop support for Python 2.7 and now require at least Python 3.6. [#259]
• Fix compatibility with Jupyter 2.0. [#260]

pywwt 0.7.0 (2019-09-20)

• You can now save your WWT views as interactive figures to be used in journal articles! (Actually, they're just standalone web pages, so they can be used anywhere you've got a web server.) This feature is new so it will still have some rough edges — keep your eyes open for improvements. And the docs haven't been written yet :-( [#215, #227]
• Relatedly, there is new first-draft support for interactive controls for image layers through the image.controls meta-property. This will also evolve over the next few releases. [#217]
• Initial support for data layers with Cartesian (XYZ) rather than spherical (lat, lon, alt) coordinates. [#190]
• Fix compatibility with the JupyterLab 1.0.x series. [#216, #219, #221]
• Expose all available imagery layers. [#220]
• Validate coordinate frame names used with tabular data layers. [#195]
• Fix the widget reset method . [#212]
• Various improvements to CI infrastructure, docs, landing pages, etc. [#218, #225, #228, #229, #230]

pywwt 0.6.1 (2019-06-10)

• Fixed issues when calling reset(). [#212]
• Fixed resizing issues in Jupyter Lab. [#216]
• Fixed server URL when using Jupyter Lab. [#219]

pywwt 0.6.0 (2019-05-29)

• Implement support for color-coding and scaling points in layers according to table attributes. [#183]
• Removed load_fits_data and added layers.add_image_layer instead, which provides control over the image stretch, and renamed layers.add_data_layer to layers.add_table_layer. [#188, #201]
• Added support for drag and drop events in Qt widget. [#202]
• Added support for get_center for the Jupyter widget, and add a new get_fov method to get the current field of view. [#206]
• Fixed compatibility with notebook>=5.7.6 which requires mime types for served files to be correct. [#192, #208]
• Fixed display of table layers on Windows. [#207]

pywwt 0.5.3 (2019-01-16)

• Exposed option to turn off large-scale SDSS data in 3D mode, improving performance. [#176]
• Make sure default altitude type is set correctly. [#176]

pywwt 0.5.2 (2019-01-08)

• Added instructions for using Jupyter Lab. [#170]
• Fixed set_view('Mars'). [#171]
• Fixed issue with layers not appearing under certain circumstances. [#173]

pywwt 0.5.1 (2019-01-04)

• Fixed a bug that caused layers to not immediately update when updating data. [#167]
• Fixed a bug that caused some columns to be pre-assigned to e.g. size_att based on column name. [#167]

pywwt 0.5.0 (2019-01-04)

• Fixed issues with zooming using trackpad/scroll wheel. [#166]
• Added support for customizing the layer marker type (marker_type), the option to specify whether the marker size is absolute or relative to the screen (marker_scale), and the option to show points on the far side of an object (far_side_visible). [#165]
• Fixed a bug that caused issues with the distance/altitude of points when not centered on the Earth. [#165]

pywwt 0.4.1 (2018-12-23)

• Work around an issue with getting base URLs on e.g. mybinder.
• Improvements to documentation. [#160, #164]

pywwt 0.4.0 (2018-12-20)

• Added keyboard shortcuts for movement in-viewer. [#81]
• Disable crosshairs by default. [#157]
• Added pause_time and play_time for controlling time and make it possible to control the rate of passage of time. [#146, #152]
• Added support for displaying fields of view for common telescope. [#102]
• Added minor_orbits and stars attributes to control the visibility of minor orbits and stars in solar system mode. [#145]
• Added support for showing tables of data using layers. [#122, #136, #139, #140, #143, #147, #150]
• Added load_fits_data method for Qt and Jupyter clients. [#78]
• Added support for non-sky modes (e.g. solar system mode). [#74, #83, #95, #98]
• Added GUI controls for imagery layers using the layer_controls attribute. [#64]
• Added support for exploring available imagery layers. [#71]
• Added support for showing circle collections with annotations. [#54]
• Switch to use OpenGL API. [#73]
• Fixed compatibility with Jupyter Lab. [#63, #65]
• Fixed compatibility with older versions of Qt. [#133]
• Fixed compatibility with unicode strings for colors on Python 2. [#105]
• Improved documentation. [#60, #70, #84, #101, #109]

pywwt 0.3.0 (2017-12-20)

• Initial version with changelog